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

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Neylan, aged 14, who is turning out to be anatural pilot. He has been promised hisfirst solo on his 16th birthday, but he'll bepretty tired by then of carrying instructorsaround as ballast.The response lo gliding in East Africahasbeen most heartening, and there seems tobe no doubt at present that the sport is hereto slay.P.B.E.T.KIONFELDquite a lot more !opace during our talks as ithas been obvious for some time that the oldlecture room was far too small.Ideas are always.welcome as to suitablespeakers or topics for Wednesday eveningsand any suggestions should be made to:The Secretary, The Kronfeld Club,Basement, 74 Ecdeston Square, S.W.I.LONDONSINCE our last notes We have been gettinginto our stride for the season and aerospeople will see from the list of talks, towing is much in evidence; but on the 7thA these are not being held every week in April a small group of private o't\'11ers withJune and July as they are our slackest the Scud 11, Gull I and an Olympia revertedmonths, but the Club will still be open on to old times and went flying from the northall Wednesdays. face of lvinghoe Beacon with bungy29TH M..w, 8 p.m.-"Aids to High Per- launching. A new hazard to gliding wasformance Soaring" by David Ince. discovered when Norman Preston landed5TH JUNE, 8 p.m.-"Gliding in Australia" the Gull I in a nice field, and then read aby Cdr. G. A. J. Goodhart, D.S.C. notice on the fence saying, "Unexploded19TH JUNE, 8 p.m.-Film Show.missile!> keep out"!261li JUNE, 8 p.m.-"The R.A.F. Forma- On Saturday, 13th April, three memberstion Squadron" bY Sq. Ldr. Topp of aUempteda 100 kilometre triangle. Geof'freyR.A.F., North Weald.Stc:phenson was the only one to manage it,10TH JULY, 8.30 p.m.-Film Show. flying to Buckingham-Chinnor-Dunstable,17TH JULY, 8 p.m.-"Meteorology for the and then proceeded to do a 30 mile out-andNational Ch:unpionships" by Wally return flight. This was in his Skylark Ill.Wallington. Charles Ellis in the Skylark 11 reachedIt is hoped that by the time these notes Ampthill and had to turn back, and Godfreyappear the wall between the bar and Lee in his Sky turned back at Royston.the lounge will have been taken down, Easter produced some really goodmaki!1g a large lecture room and the bar and weather on the first two days and muchcoffee bar will now be in action in what was activity ensued. Sunday was not very good.the old lecture room. This should give us Arthur Doughty however, reached 5,700 ft.-164-
in his Kite 11, and this was the best performance.On Good Friday, John Jetrries was theflrst away off a winch launch in the veteranSCud 11, and he reached Watlington 25 milesaway. Two outstanding flights were madeby Flank Foster, Skylark 11, to Lasham andback, and by Geotrrey Stephenson, SkylarkIII to Malvern Beacon and back, the formerJ04 miles at 36 m.p.h. and the latter 158miles at 37 m.p.h., within 8 miles of theBritish out.and-return record. Both CharlesEllis, Skylark 11, and Godfrey Lee, Sky,found little difficulty in doing the 100 kilometretriangle, the former by StoneyStratford and Chinnor, and the latter byBedford and Royston at 30.9 m.p.h.Dan Smith then took the Sky on a 60 miletriangle, via Olney and Sandy. Dr. ArchieErskine took his Olympia 72 miles toCOlchester for his Silver C distance. CedricVernon flew the Gull I to Warfield, 31 miles,getting 4,300 ft. en route. Even the twoseaterswere not to be ol.\tdone; and JohnCurrie and Vjc Pollard reached 4,400 ft.from a 500 foot winch launch and flew tQLeighton Buzzard and' &ck, finding onethermal of a genuine 15ft. per second!Mike Russell flew a neat 39 mile square,Bletchley-Tring-Berkhamsted-Dunstable inFrank Foster's Skylark after he had gotback from Lasham,. and reached 5,500 ft.Roger Bradford reached 5,400 ft., and JeffButt the same. The total air miles for GoodFriday were 632 miles. Godfrey L~ hadgot up to 7,400 ft.On Saturday, Colin Richardson flew theSkylark II to Baginton, a 53 mile goal flight.John Jeffries in the Scud II went to Witchfordnear Ely, 49 miles. reaching some6,000 ft. en route. Peter Dirs in the Prefectgot to Bilsden, 5S miles, for his Silver Cdistance. JeffButt took theBlue Olympia toNewborough, S6 miles. Air mileage forSaturday, 213 miles.Sunday was not nearly so good, but theSCud 11 with John Jeffries made a nobleeffort to get away three days running from awinch launch. However, he was forceddown at Totternhce after a good try! DanSmith in his Olympia was aero-towed out ofLuton Airport and reached Deenethorpe8 miles N.N.E. of Kettering. Conditionswere difficult in the extreme around Dunstable,and no one else got away in spite ofmany tries.The total cross-country milesfor the-165-Easter period work out at 890, which ismost encouraging.Our Annual General Meeting takes placeon 27th April, and will be reported in theneltt issue.P.F.NEWCASTLET HE shape of things to come becameevident on 31st March when AndyCoulson in the Skylark, Hetty White in theblack Tutor and Alan Pratt with a pupil inthe TlI were all seen to be soaring i]1 thesame thermal, the times being as follows:Skylark 25 minutes, T21 45 minutes, andTUtor 32 minutes. Hetty was launched to800 ft. and her maximum height was 1,600ft. She is therefore the second lady memberto gain her C certificate in theclub's history.After a fortnight of indifferent weatherthermal fl)ing started in earnest.SUNDAY, 14TH ApRaThere were three noteworthy flights bythe Kite II piloted by Ian Paul who reacheda height of 4,200 ft. during the course of af1igh~ of 2 hrs. 20 mins.; by Andy Coulsonin the Skylark who reached 4,500 ft. andwas airborne for 2 hrs. 17 mins. and byDave Wilson in the Olympia, who gotenough height to go prospecting over theTeam valley in search of some waves whichwere visible from the field but unfortunatelywere too far away.WWNESDAY, 17TH APRILThermals still going strong and weretaken advantage of by Andy Coulson in theSkylark who logged 2 hrs. 40 mills. in aflight to 5,000 ft. and Doug Collinson whowas airborne for I hr. in the Olympia.THURSDAY, 18TH APRILOne flight today could probably comeunder the heading of "Love's labour lost,"as SydBooth took the Kite I up to 4,000 ft.in the course of a 45 minute flight Silver Cheight was in the bag but-yes you'veguessed it~no barograph!FRIDAY, 19TH APRILThere were outstanding flights by AndyCoulson, lan Paul, Alan Pratt and DougCoUinson. Alall was launched at aboutmidday in the Blue Kite I and stayed up for2 hrs. 10 mins. During the flight he foundthe turn and slip indicator was not working50 he landed and after rectifying the faultwas launched. again,at 3.15. From an 800 ft.launch he gained height and later enteredcloud still gaining height. Icing Ie\'el was8,000 ft. and all the usual places iced upincluding the pitot head which put the
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