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1947
1947 - 1077.PDF
JULY 3RD, 1947 >tographs The glider park is a study in sleek lines, graceful angles and cheerful colours. The Olympia in the foreground has its spoilers extended. it) C. L. Faulkner's Cambridge blue Tipia is just airborne over the cut hay the airfield. (Above) The scarlet and y Weihe, belonging to the Surrey ling Club, drops its wheels on take-off. RESULTS. Individual Prizes. First : P. A. Wills (Weihe) 610 Points. Second : Cdr. C. Nicholson (Nav. Lt. Cdr. Blake). (Kranich II) 481 points Third: F/O. R. C. Forbes and SI. Ian Bcurne (We,he) 418 points. First : Surrey Gliding^lTub (Weihe) 285 points. Second ." Surrey Gliding Club (Olympia) 282 points. Third: Cambridge University Club (Olympia) 273 points. Firth-Vickers Trophy : C. P. Ellis (Slingsby Gull). The E.O.N. Cup : D. F. Greig (Olympia). Londonderry Cup: R.N. Soaring Assoc. (Kranich). L. du Garde Peach Trophy : R.N. Soaring Assoc. (Kranich). Dcily prizes of £IOond £5 were also awarded. The A.T.C. bring their two-seater— painted in vivid trainer yellow—on the scene by the aid of an armoured car. Part of the enor- mous amount of voluntary work put in by all ranks of H.M.S. Game- cock (Bramcote air station) was a radio and tele- phone exchange at the starting point. (Above) T. Horsley and L. Slater, the nominated pilots for Viscount Kemsley's cream Olympia. (Right) Naval gliding party. Lt. (A) Clark, Lt. Cdr. (E) Blake, and Cdr. C. Nicholson of the Royal Navy Air Command Soaring Association which did so well in the contests
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