Volume 8 No 3 Jun 1957.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

and among, the many who have helped,Messrs. Adams, Dyer, Gavaghan, Morris.Richardson, Smith and Wilcocks are to becongratulated on their constant allendance.Whilst on the subject of maintenance, EricDyer and "Ricky" Richardson do deserveespecial mention when it comes to vehiclemaintenance, without them we should havelost quite a few mQre flying hours.This year we are making every effort toincrease Qur nwnber of launches and moreespecially the hours flown. This will mean areally big effort from eVeryone, as we shallbe using the airfield in conjunction withscheduled services.P.W.KENTTHE week prior to Easter has brought the_ best results todateinourflying with no lessthan four seJ'arate Silver C legs and sevenC certificates in the good thermal conditions.On Saturday 13th April, Ted Day in theSky became the first member to complete anthree legs of a Silver C at Detling. Regained his final leg with a distance flight of64 miles from Detling to Tangmere.The following Tuesday, 16th April, lanAbel organised a day's flying for Prefectpilots trying for C's. This proved veryfruitful as Bemard Kirby, John Bailey and"Jonah" Jones got their C's on half hourthermal flights. "Jonah" in fact got athermal off the launch and reached 4,800 ft.lan also had a good day as he was able tocomplete his Silver C with a distance flightof 35 miles in the Sky to Ramsgate.-162-Good Friday also- brought three moreC's.Phillipa Buckley, -Sue Parkinson and"Nobby" Clark. Mike Foreman in the Skygot Silver C distance with a flight toManston 33 miles and Bill Bridges in theOlympia thermalled for 5 hrs. 10 mins. at5,200 ft. for h,s Silver C duration, butcouldn't claim height as he lacked a barograph.Steve Green flying the Prefect gothis C on Easter Sunday in thermals whichwere definitely few and far between.Other flights which were of interest wereBernard Kirby's I hr. 10 mins. in thePrefect at 3,000 ft. on Easter Saturday andRoy Rubble's I hr. 13 mins. in the Sky at4,000 ft. on Easter Monday.Looking back over the first year of theClub's activities since last April, membershiphas steadily increased from the original4{) flying members to now over 100 andassociates 50.Launches have reached nearly 5,000which we hope to exceed next year, the2-drum winch being constructed by KenO'Riley and Frank Tilley will help considerablyto make this possible. A secondtractor recently purchased is greatly neededas our old Fordson is beginning to feel thestrain after such continued good service.In March with the mild weather, thegrounQ was firm enough (we have no runways)for auto-towing the Olympia and T31which helped relieve a hard-pressed winch.During March and early April with anorth-easterly wind we had quite an amountof thermal flying. The Sky was flown onhourly and half-hourly flights in companywith the Olympia at heights of 2-3,000, ft.The T21 also had its fair share of thermals