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3° FLIGHT, 3 July 1953 CLUB AND a GLIDING NEWS SHOREHAM was under the (rainy) weather for part of the Southern Aero Club's "At Home" on June 21st, in spite of which an informally pleasant time was enjoyed by the occupants of the score of visiting aircraft, of nine different types. Among the machines were the Proctors of Mcintosh and "Buster" Paine (racing numbers 72 and 73 bearing witness to their previous day's activity at Southend), while in the afternoon a late visitor was Ron Paine in his Speed Six. Winner ofthe arrival competition was Mr. Lewis, of Portsmouth, in a Tiger Moth, while Mr. J. Miller, a "local boy" of the host club, made good in the spot-landing contest, managing both to find the spot and to land near it. A Concours d'Elegance prize, awarded to the smartest visiting aircraft, was won, we record with modest pride by our own Gemini, G-AFLT. Prizes were presented to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Miller and Flight representative Ken Owen by Capt. O. P. Jones, of B.O.A.C. Balloon-bursting and flour-bombing by veteran C.F.I. Mr. C. L. Pashley, Mr. E. Westbrook, Mr. Graham Head and Mr. Brunicardi were the late-afternoon attractions, accomplished (in spite of independent-minded balloons, a highly manoeuvrable turf- board target and the rain) in an Auster and a Hawk Trainer of the Southern Club. During the intervals, the band of the Worthing branch of the Women's Junior Air Corps added a fiercely energetic musical contribution to the programme. ACCORDING to reports from France, the parachuting L competition due to be held there from July 27th-August 1st will be a national event instead of a world championship, as originally planned. As the winners ofthe previous world parachut ing contest, staged by Jugoslavia two years ago, the French were responsible for organizing the 1953 contest. An article in the Paris Press said recently that a modified set of rules suggested by the F.A.I, parachuting representatives of four other countries—the United Kingdom, Jugoslavia, Holland and Austria—was regarded as "too easy" by the French. Accordingly, French parachutists decided to hold a national competition, retaining their own set of rules. The main objection to the French programme apparently centred on the proposed duration of the free-fall part of delayed drops. Protracted delays are frowned upon by most authorities, but parachutists at the French contest will allow up to 20-30 sec to elapse before pulling their ripcords. ENTRIES for the National Gliding Championships at Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, from July 25th-August 3rd, total 37, it is announced by the B.G.A. From the list of entries (reproduced in the adjacent table) it is seen that the Slingsby Skylark (described in Flight of June 19th) entered in the Individual Class by Mr. F. N. Slingsby is the only new machine to take part. The most popular entrant type is the Olympia, as in previous champion- STATE OF THE PARTIES: Positions currently occupied by pilots competing in the British Air Racing Championship are shown below. Final placings now depend on the results of the Siddeley Challenge Trophy event. BRITISH AIR RACING CHAMPIONSHIP Competitor J. Rush W. P. Bowles R. R. Paine W. P. 1. Fillingham G. R. 1. Parker A. S. K. Paine D. J. Bennett D. R. Robertson ... F. Dunkerley J. N. Somers P. Hillwood C. Gregory Prince Alexander ... S. A. Holloway A. J. Spiller D. C. Jemmett N. F. Duke D. F. Ogilvy G. C. Marter Nat. Air Races points 26 32 20 32 6 20 16 30 20 4 — 19 19 — 4 9 13 13 6 Total points 53 47 47 41 39 31 30 30 28 22 21 19 19 17 17 16 13 13 10 Competitor F. Murphy M. R. T. Chandler... C. M. M. Grece D. M. Spencer-Smith R. H. Mcintosh H. J. G. Turner Miss E. L. Curtis ... J. R. Batt E.W. Westbrook-... G. F. Bullen Miss F. M. Leaf ... A. Bough ... C. H. Davies D. Fitzgerald A.Jones C. W. W. Turner ... H. C. Wilson Nat. Air Races points 9 7 5 7 7 3 6 5 5 3 — 2 — 2 — Total points 9 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 5 5 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 OUR GEMINI: Seen here with other visiting aircraft at the National Air Races at Southend, "Flight's" Gemini now sports a new paint scheme. Appreciation of her appearance was recently shown at the Southern Aero Club's "At Home," when G-AFLT won the Concours d'Elegance. ships : this year the total is 17. Philip Wills will fly his world- beating Sky, so successful in Spain last year, and the London Gliding Club's Elizabeth will be flown in the championships by Geoffrey Stephenson. This actual machine, now rebuilt, was originally the one in which Frank Foster force-landed during the first stages of last year's international contests : Foster is flying an Olympia in this year's nationals. The only other Sky to be entered comes from the Empire Test Pilots' School at Farnborough. Among the annual awards at the national contests are the Kemsley Cup, to the best-performance club in the team champion ship; the Londonderry Cup, to the winner of the individual championship;'the L. du Garde Peach Trophy, to the winner of the team championship; the Firth Vickers Trophy, for the best performance by a British pilot in a British glider; the Eon Cup, for the best performance by one of the numerically most popular types of British glider; the Furlong Trophy, for the best two-seat performance; and the Slingsby Trophy, for the best flight in a T.21B Sedbergh. 1953 NATIONAL GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIPS No. Type Entrant Pilots Individual Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Team 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Sky Sky Olympia Mu 13a Skylark Olympia Olympia Weihe Kite II Sedbergh Class Olympia Olympia Olympia Prefect Olympia Olympia Olympia Gull IV Weihe Sky Olympia Olympia Olympia Olympia Kite IIA Olympia Olympia Olympia Olympia Petrel Sedbergh Sedbergh Sedbergh Sedbergh Sedbergh Sedbergh Sedbergh P. A. Wills London G.C. Frank Foster Royal Naval G.S.A. F. N. Slingsby D. A. Smith Surrey G.C. Surrey G.C. Andrew Coulson R.A.F. G.S.A., Middleton St. George Army G.C. Bristol G.C. Cambridge Univ. G.C. Cambridge Univ. G.C. Imperial College G.C. London G.C. Southdown G.C. R.A.F. G.S.A.. Cosford 2nd T.A.F, G.C, Assocn. E.T.P.S., Farnborough E.T.P.S., Farnborough Major C. G. Dorman R. G. Frecheville Hickling and Cotton F. G. Irving M. V. Laurie Prof. G. C. Varley A. H. Warminger A. H. Yates Yorkshire Soaring Syndicate A.T.C. Gliding Instruc tors' School A.T.C. No. 168 G.S., Detling A.T.C. No. 106 G.S., Henlow A.T.C. No. 89 G.S., Christchurch A.T.C. No. 49 G.S., Newton Cambridge Univ. G.C. Imperial College G.C. Entrant G. H. Stephenson Entrant Lt.-Cdr. G. A. J. Goodhart Lt.-Col. A. J. Deane-Drummond Entrant C. W. Dowdall W. A. H. Kahn Entrant Cpl. L. Simpson D. L. Martlew, J. S. Williamson, P. Wenham J. D. Jones, M. J. Hodgson, G. E. Miller, J. M. Hahn G. R. Whitfield, J. Grantham, A. R. I. Austin A. B. Adams, J. P. W. Gaskell W. N. Tonkyn, A. G. Oram C. A. P. Ellis, G. H. Lee W. F. Jordan, J. F. Godley, D. C. Snodgrass S/L. R. H. Pelling, F/L. T. Page Cpl. McKercher, Cpl. Brennan P. L. Bisgood, A.D. Dick E. C. Rigg, C. H. Macfie, J. D. Price Major C. G. Dorman, S. Morison R. D. Dickson, R. G. Frecheville, W. A. S. Murray J. H. Hickling, J. L. Cotton F. G. Irving, L. J. W. Hall J. C. Neilan, M. V. Laurie Prof. G. C. Varley, R. C. Stafford- Allen, R. M. H. Goodhall A. H. Warminger, B. Gould A. H. Yates, G. Nixon R. C. Pick, S. C. O'Grady, A. de Redder F/L. A. D. Piggott, F/O. E. J. Meddings K. W. O'Riley, H. G. How S. R. Dodd, F. E. Allen S/L. F. R. E. Hayter, P/O. J. C. Allan W. D. Campion, B. Longstaff A. L. L. Alexander, G. S. Neu mann R. A. B. Macfie, P. Murden
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