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FLIGHT, 19 July 19571 TWO DAYS AT THE RACES (Continued from pa'ge 69) The Flying Display. Saturday afternoon included a compre-hensive flying display as well as the aerobatic championship finals and the King's Cup Race. Hampered by lowish cloud (aswere all the jet aerobatic teams), the Royal Navy opened proceed- ings with a team of five Sea Hawks from No. 738 Sqn., Lossie-mouth, led by Lt-Cdr. A. J. Leahy. Their number worried No. 111 Sqn. team, but their show was short. They rolled in box, loopedin swan and winged over into arrow before departing. This was their first five-man appearance and, if they can overcome the slightlack of power of the Sea Hawk for this type of flying, they might well worry No. Ill Sqn. again. Five Canberras of No. 9 Sqn., ledby W/C. B. P. T. Horsley, put on a fine co-ordinated solo and formation show ending with an excellent bomb-burst. The leaderrolled with wing-tanks attached. Appetites were well whetted now and the Patrouille de Francein their Mystere 4s made the most of the relatively narrow space between cloud and ground. After a series of low turning passes invarious formations they made a splendid roll from line astern into box and finished with a level bomb-burst and a cross-over. AnEdgar Percival E.P.9 was rather distantly shown, and the Super Aero 45 was daintily aerobatted, one propeller being feathered atthe top of a loop for a single-engined roll. Krysta gave a fine repeat performance of his winning aerobatic display; and Arestisettled down to some breathtaking flick-rolls off the deck and long, very low inverted passes in his Jungmeister. He had thecrowd on its feet several times. The C.F.S. team in four Provosts, led by F/L. J. H. Kingsbury,put up a superb performance, not only of very close formation aerobatics, but also of fine air drill when arriving and departing.For their show they dived in line astern and looped into box. Their barrel roll was more barrelled than anyone else's and theyheld their formation rigidly despite very gusty conditions. Their only difficulty was in positioning for a new sequence of manoeuvres;they could not fill time with that splendid wing-over which is a necessary part of a jet show. They made a long, slow zoom climbwith flaps down and landed in box close to the crowd. Sub-Lt. R. A. Peters, in a Whirlwind of No. 705 Sqn., put up a sprightly THE BRITISH AIR RACING CHAMPIONSHIP Final Place Oiram Cup 3 7 1 7 4 5 6 2 9 J. E.G. Appleyard W. H. BaileyF/L H. B. lies J. R. Johnston J. N. Somers E. Noel Husbands R. H. Mclntosh P. BlamireF. Dunkerley* Kemsley Trophy 2 4 1 5 6 9 3 7 8 — A. S. K. Paine T. G. Knox A. Barker E. Crabtree G. Mar|«r S/L J. Rush R. R. Paine P. S. Cliffordf F. Dunkerley H. M. Kendall Aircroft Chilton D.W. 1a Hawk Trainer 3M.18/2 Hawk Trainer 3 Chipmunk Proctor 3 Proctor 3 Gemini 1aGemini 1a Proctor 1 Proctor 3 Proctor 3 Gemini 3a Falcon 6 Falcon 6Hawk Speed 6 Mew Gull Sparrowjet SK-1 Goodyear Challenge Trophy 3 2 3 5 6 1 7 9 8 C. Gregory J. H. Denyer D. Hartas W. P. Meynell D. F. OgilvyW. P Bowles : J. Heaton J. HillCdr. W. Stuart Taylorcraft Plus DAuster J.1N Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Hawk Trainer 3Monarch Jackaroo Tipsy B Jackaroo "News Chronicle'* Trophy 7 8 9 1 5 4 6 2 2 J. M. Donald Miss M. McKellar Miss A. A. Windle Hon. P. Vanneck N. H.Jones N. D. Norman A. G. Oldham J. HarrisJ. Pothecary D. W. Phillips Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger MothTiger Moth Tiger Moth Round One 3 6 1 5 4 7 Rtd. 2 N.S. 3 1 2 6 5 8 4 7 Rtd. N.S. 3 4 1 6 S 2 8 7 9 6 8 9 4 7N.S. 2 3 5 1 Round Two 1 9 2 8 4 5 6 3 7 2 4 1 8 5 9 3 7 6 — 3 1 6 4 5 1 7 8 9 6 tie 8 9 1 6 tie 3 5 2 4 Round Three 4 6 1 8 7 S 3 2 Dis- auali- fied 2 7 3 1 6 9 4 tie 8 4 tie — 4 2 3 5 6 1 7 8 4 9 8 2 1 6 7 3 5 Champ. Points 62 36 70 36 48 44 38 64 33 64 54 66 48 46 26 55 34 33 — 58 63 58 48 46 69 34 20 26 45 28 26 64 49 56 48 58 58 Champ. Place 8 27 1 26 20 24 25 6 30 5 15 3 17 21 n14 28 30 — 9 7 11 19 222 29 35 34 23 31 33 4 16 13 18 12 10 Pilot F. Dunkerley* S/L J Rush W. P. Bowles P. S. Clifford J. R. Johnston E. Crabtree N. H.Jones F/L H. B. liesC. Gregory T G Knox Hon. P. Vanneck J. Heaton G. Marler J. E. G. Appleyard ... R. R. Paine D. W. Phillips J. H. Denyer A. G. Oldham A. S. K. Paine P. Blamire E. Noel Husbands ... Miss A. Windle D. Hartas Cdr. W. Stuart Miss M. McKellar ... J. Pothecary ... J. Harris A Barker W. H. Bailey J. M. DonaldW. P. Meynell D. F. Ogilvy W'C R. H. Mclntosh J. Hill J. N. Somersf THE KING'S CUP Aircraft Sparrowjet Falcon 6Monarch Mew Gull ... Hawk Trainer 3 Gemini 3a ... Tiger Moth Miles M.18/2Taylorcraft Plus D Proctor 3 ...Tiger Moth Jackaroo Falcon 6 Chilton D.W. 1a Hawk Speed 6Tiger Moth Auster J1N Tiger MothProctor 3 ... Gemini 1a ... Proctor 1 ... Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Jackaroo ... Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Proctor 3 ...Hawk Trainer Tiger MothTiger Moth Hawk Trainer Proctor 3 ... Tipsy B Chipmunk ... H'cap m. s. 38 29 31 0421 00 39 14 23 38 29 53 12 50 22 3812 08 26 4909 14 04 11 32 23 24 18 35 5209 46 18 07 08 2828 17 26 06 26 23 08 08 10 46 03 30 10 37 07 32 07 32 28 0715 55 07 1606 41 15 55 25 23 00 00 24 55 Speedm.p.h. 228 172.75137.75 215.5 144.25 165.5 117.25 140.75115.75 153.5 110 101.75 173.75 144.25 191 110.5 127.5 108 156.75 148.75 149 107 111 99.25 110.5 105.5 105.5 152.75 120 103.75 102 117.7S 134.75 89 Place 1 23 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Retired *Air League Challenge Cup for the best time (153.75 m.p.h.) in Class 1. ^Norton Griffiths Challenge Trophy for the best time (200.75 m.p.h.) in Class 2. tGrosvenor Challenge Cup for the best time (131.5 m.p.h.) in Class 3. *Winner of the S.B.A.C. Cup for the best time. jForced-landed after losing a propellor near Market Harborough. and skilful demonstration of picking up and setting down "ditched"airmen in a dinghy, but his show was interrupted by the swarming finish of the King's Cup race. Some competitors threatened hisrotor as they rushed past the finishing line. Vic Carr, in a Coventry Gliding Club Olympia, gave a graceful and pleasantly silentaerobatic display from the top of a Tiger aero-tow and landed almost close enough to the towing car to hook up without furthermoving. The Valiant is a difficult aircraft to demonstrate excitingly, butW/C. L. H. Trent, commander of No. 214 Sqn., did it. He arrived silently and quickly in a glossy white machine, very low down,and pulled up into a very noisy and impressive full-power climb in a steep turn. Repeating this evolution some time later, heclimbed straight into cloud and departed. All morning we had been discussing the relative merits of theFlying Arrows and the Skyblazers aerobatic teams, respectively flying Hunters of No. Ill Sqn. and F-lOOCs of the 36th FighterDay Wing. The Americans had—and used—the spectacular qualities of their machines, and the R.A.F. concentrated on superbformation holding and changing in their Hunter 6s. The latter now boasted smoke, which the Super Sabres were still unable toproduce. But the cloud-base limited both teams to a "flat show" and the strong wind carried away the great booms of the Americanafterburners. The Skyblazers, led by Capt. W. "Bill" Creach, flew firs:,arriving over the crowd with a burst of afterburner. They rolled and turned steeply, coming very low and close to the enclosures.Undoubtedly their piece de resistance was the amazing clover leaf, in which the aircraft break slightly apart and roll individually atvery low height, their afterburners twinkling viciously as the wing men add power to keep up. Skyblazer formation flying was veryclose indeed and their aircraft appeared little affected by bumps. Whatever the Skyblazers achieve in noise and splendour andrigidly precise formation flying, the five Hunters of No. Ill Sqn. achieve in variety of formation and manoeuvre. Theirs is a highlyskilled show of pure flying at its best, but the average air-show crowd lacks discernment, being impressed in proportion to noiseand panache. Yet, though they were limited to a flat show, No. 111 Sqn. performed their full repertoire of formation changes andmade one brilliant roll from their own card-five formation into box. With two new members in the team they did extremely well;and ended with a horizontal bomb-burst streaming their new smoke under each wing-tip. They departed with the twin smoketrail curling as the aircraft rolled away. The afternoon's show ended with a valiant attempt by PeterHillwood (company test pilot) to get airborne in the veteran English Electric Wren. He succeeded finally and flew bravelya few feet off the ground at an incredibly low speed. It was a fins effort in that gusty wind.
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