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

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