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51FLIGHT, 8 January1960 This outstanding picture of a Slingsby Skylark 2 at sunset was taken at Lasham by Harry Hensser and was reproduced on the British Gliding Association's Christmas card for 1959. The photograph is one of a collection shortly to be published, together with a commentary on gliding by Philip Wills, in a new Max Parrish book "The Beauty of Gliding" THE UNITED STATES TEAM for the 1960 World GlidingChampionships, to be held at Butzweilerhof, near Cologne, during June 4-19, will include Richard Johnson and Richard Schreder,with Paul Schweizer as team captain. Johnson was automatically assured of first place on the seeded list by becoming the 1959 USnational champion. The number of pilots per country has not yet been divulged by the organizers of the championships, theGerman Aero Club, but is generally assumed to be not less than two and not more than four. Third and fourth on the US seededlist are Paul Bikle and Lyle Maxey. Delay in announcing the British team for the championships isalso presumably due to the uncertainty concerning the maximum permitted number of pilots. The top six British pilots, named inalphabetical order by the British Gliding Association last August, are Anthony Deane-Drummond, Anthony Goodhart, NicholasGoodhart, David Ince, Geoffrey Stephenson and John Williamson. Since then, however, Stephenson has reaffirmed his decision toretire from world contest gliding and so must be considered ineligible. For the first time since the first international glidingchampionships (in Germany in 1937) the British team this year will not include Philip Wills—at least, not as a competing pilot. THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TYPES of aircraft sold byW. S. Shackleton Ltd, the London firm of aviation brokers, has now reached 150. The last ten types were Tri-Pacer, Desford,Drover, Apache, Twin Bonanza, Cessna 172, Piaggio P.166, Prentice, Linnet, Ambassador and Douglas DC-2. The 150thtype, the DC-2, was sold for a South African operator to a customer in France. Among current types offered by the company is theexecutive version of the North American F-51D Mustang built by Trans-Florida Aviation Inc, a photograph of which appears below. Details of Trans-Florida Aviation's executive version of the F-57D Mustang are now available in this country from W. S. Shockleton Ltd. The executive Mustang carries two people at a normal cruising speed of 360 m.p.h. (max. continuous cruise 424 m.p.h.). Duty-paid price in the UK, including comprehensive radio, is £74,500 FIRST ANNUAL DINNER of Denham Flying Club will beheld on Friday, January 15 at the Piccadilly Hotel, London. At Denham Aerodrome the Link training centre under David Pearcehas been extremely busy since its opening some two months ago. WELL KNOWN TO PRE-WAR PRIVATE PILOTS as aviationmanager of National Benzole, and pilot of the firm's Puss Moth and Leopard Moth aircraft, J. J. Scholes retired from the company onDecember 31. A founder member of Lancashire Aero Club, he was appointed manager of the Lancashire division of NationalBenzole in 1948, when the company decided not to re-enter the aviation fuel market after the war. He had been aviation managerfrom 1930 to 1939. A GLIDING SECTION is being formed by, Norfolk and NorwichAero Club, whose flying base is Swanton Morley Airfield. A two-seat Kranich and an Olympia have been purchased from aSwedish gliding club. AN UPRATED VERSION of the Potez 4.E light-aircraft engineis now being bench-tested and will shortly be flown in a Jodel Ambassadeur. Designated 4.E-02, it gives 105 h.p. instead of90 h.p., but weighs no more and still fits the same mounting. Three examples have so far been built. LIST PRICES of the seven executive aircraft types offered byBeech Aircraft Corporation for 1960, announced at the company's annual sales meeting recently, are: Beechcraft Super G18(seven-seat), $126,000; Model 65 Queen Air (six-seat), $120,000; H50 Twin-Bonanza (six- or seven-seat), $95,500; D50C Twin-Bonanza, $83,000; B95 Travel Air (four- or five-seat), $51,500; M35 Bonanza (four-seat), $25,300 and Model 33 Debonair(four-seat), $19,995. "Wet Wot" is the alliterative appellation of this experimental seaplane version of the Currie Wot built by Hampshire Aeroplane Club at Eastleigh Airport, Southampton. Taxying trials were made towards the end of last year, since when the aircraft has reverted to wheels. The Mikron-powered Wat was described in our issue of December 4
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