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1956
1956 - 0975.PDF
20JWy 1956 121 The Slingsby Skylark 3 flown by Jose Ortner of Argentina (left) jtros one of six entered tor the championships. Others included those of Stephenson (who came sixth) and Wills (tenth). "FLIGHT" photographs Morning rigging of the two- seater HKS-1 (below), flown by Haase and Heinzel of Germany. on the way to Moulins, then reported by radio that they hadentered the storm and were climbing in it. They reached 17,OOOft, having endured a hailstorm, and were able to reach Moulins at7,000ft under an overcast sky. Fortunately their radio and that of a British radio van at the turning point enabled recogni-tion to be made at that height. The glide back home took them under the same large clouds but, by now, the lift had gone. Aftera long glide with only occasional lift they got within ten miles of- St. Yan to earn the day's maximum points, 800. Of the othertwo-seaters, only the Argentine Condor reached the turning point. This fine performance consolidated the British lead inthe two-seater class. Not one of the single-seaters did as well as Goodhart andFoster's two-seater. Kumpost of Czechoslovakia in his Demant sailplane and Paul MacCready in his borrowed Breguet 901 werethe most successful single-seaters. MacCready obtained nearly full marks and made his lead almost impregnable. The stormsdid not bring much rain to St. Yan but were very heavy else- where in France. They seemed to have broken die sequence ofvery hot days. On Monday evening, after six contest days, the leading posi-tions were:— Single-seaters:—1. MacCready (U.SJV.) 4,149 points 2. Gorzelak (Poland) 3,2833. Juez (Spain) 3,212 4. Saradic (Yugoslavia) 3,125Two-seaters:— 1. Goodhart and Foster (Great Britain) 3,301 points2. Nowotarski and Sandauer (Poland) 2,404 3. Rain and Stepanovic (Yugoslavia) 2,3874. Sadoux and Bazet (Argentina) 2,158 (Geoffrey Stephenson had scored 701 pts. and Philip Wills 360 pts.for die day's flying and were now 12th and 16di respectively in die single-seater class.)Tuesday, July 10. Heavy grey clouds produced steady rain by lunchtime and there was obviously going to be no flying today. The relief from the sticky heat was welcome and the frequentallusions to "Camphill weather" caused no depression among the large British contingent. Wills and Stephenson were now welldown die single-seater list—but so were other previously favoured candidates for the championship like Pierre (14th) andWiethuchter (20th). Our two-seater was, however, comfortably at die top of its class.As Mr. Slingsby pointed out in a lecture to OSTIV delegates which was well attended by competing pilots, the T.42 was "onlya training machine!" The achievement of outflying die expensively beautiful Czech, German and other two-seaters was thus under-lined. Wednesday, July 11. After a night of rain and strong wind,during which several crews left their beds to picket their trailers more securely, die morning sunshine and cool wind were reminis-cent of good English summer conditions. By ten o'clock cumulus Below, left, work on the Hungarian 1.08 flown by Mezo. Right, Bill Ivans, Jr., of America, prepares for the first take-off of the championships in Elliotts' Olympia IV. Ivaas was injured and the macbine extensively damaged on landing near Crest, in the Dauphine Alps, on July 11.
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