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542 FLIGHT, 15 April l%o A recent photograph*£* "<?*! 33 D (225 /).p. Co/itmento/;, Sfto ing the aircraft's ottrocfi»e new point scheme Sport and Business AIR RACING DETAILS for this season have been announced by the Royal Aero Club. First event is the London - Cardiff race on June 3, which will be flown between White Waltham and Rhoose. For the purpose of qualification for subsequent races the London - Cardiff entry will be divided into three classes, and the winner will receive the Grahame-White Memorial Trophy. The race is open to British and foreign aircraft, entered by a British sponsor and flown by a British pilot, up to a maximum gross weight of 12,5001b. The first fourteen aircraft to finish in each class in the London - Cardiff race will form the entry for the three handicap class races to be held on June 4 at Rhoose. These will be for the Air League Cup, Norton-Griffiths Trophy and D.H. Tiger Moth Trophy, and will be flown respectively over four, three, and three laps of an 11-miles course. The first seven British aircraft placed on points in each class after the London - Cardiff and class races will go forward to the King's Cup race at Baginton on July 9. This will be flown over four laps of an 18-mile circuit, and the SBAC Cup will be awarded to the pilot making the best speed over the course. Eliminating and final rounds of the British Lockheed Trophy aerobatic contest will also be held at Baginton on July 8 and 9. MANCHESTER FLYING CLUB, formed in February to replace the disbanded Ringway Aero Club, hopes to operate a Luton Major and an Auster at Manchester Airport. Officers of the club include Harry Knight, CFI; Ken Clayton, chairman; and Jack Cowap, secretary (from whom further information is obtain- able at 1 Manor Road, Abbey Hills, Oldham5 Lanes). THE SPORT OF GLIDING is an inexplicable mixture of serenity and excitement, loneliness and teamwork, frustration and satisfaction. It is also a graceful art which can do well before the camera, as a recently published collection of photographs* attempts to show. Unfortunately the book fails to do justice to its subject. The main fault lies not in the choice of photographs, although a better selection could have been made, but in the gravure process chosen for their reproduction. This reduces the photographs, many of which are of high original quality, to a fuzzy, coarse-grain uniformity in which the sparkle and clarity of the air-to-air portraits, in particular, are lost. In their subject-matter the 96 photographs portray most aspects of gliding—the tangled coil of a broken launch-wire as well as the glories of cloudscapes and mountains. The best air-to-air shot in the book is that of a Slingsby Swallow taken by Harry Hensser (who is here responsible for no fewer than 23 pictures). Among the other photographers represented are Charles Brown, Philip Wills, and Ian Macdonald and L. W. McLaren of Flight. The excellent introduction by Philip Wills is based on three previously published classic accounts of his own gliding adven- tures, including In the Mountains of the Sky from The Sunday Times; and Riding the Mistral from Flight. It is well worth re-reading the latter, if only to recall the fantastic exercise of slope-soaring in the French Alps—in cloud—and the revealing phrase which summed up the justification for it: "However, this was World Championship flying, not a Sunday afternoon at Dunstable, so . . ." K. T. o. *"The Beauty of Gliding," a collection of photographs, with an intro-duction by Philip Wills. Max Parrish & Co Ltd, SS Queen Anne Street, London Wl. Price 35s. At the Vienna International Trade Fair, one example of the Lancashire Aircraft Prospector (295 h.p. Lycoming) was exhibited (right) while another gave flight demonstrations at Vienna Airport. Current price of the Prospector is £9,570 THE PIPER DISTRIBUTORS in this country, Vigors Aviation Ltd of Kidlington, have announced that the Tri-Pacer and Caribbean have now been approved by the Air Registration Board in the Public Transport Category (Hire and Reward). A BEECH MODEL 65 QUEEN AIR was flown to a height of approximately 35,400ft by James D. Webber of Beech Aircraft Corp recently in an attempt to set up new altitude records (national and international) for light aircraft in the C-ld class. The previous world record was 30,361ft by Miss Jerrie Cobb in an Aero Commander 680S in July 1957. AEROBATIC CHAMPION at the Baginton contests of 1955, 1956 and 1958, Leon Biancotto is to fly a Nord 3202 trainer during this season's events. The aircraft, which is powered by a 240 h.p. Potez 4D.32 engine, is on loan to the Nord company from ALAT (Aviation Legere de l'Armee de Terre). A LIST OF GLIDER PILOTS holding Gold C badges with three diamonds, published recently by the Federation Aero- nautique Internationale, shows Poland to be in the lead with 48, followed by France with 45, the USA (15) and Germany (10). On the list Britain is credited with only one pilot, Nicholas Goodhart, although Cdr Goodhart's brother Tony has recently also com- pleted the requirements for his third diamond. ; fc ELLIOTTS OF NEWBURY have quoted £1,000 as the price of the company's new 15-metre single-seat glider, the prototype of which is expected to fly this month. Two or three machines will be flying this summer, and the type will be generally available next year. Intended as a successor to the Olympia 2b, the new machine has been designed according to the main considerations of weight, economic construction, performance and handling, and ease of repair. Hire-purchase terms, involving a 25 per cent deposit and repayment over three years at 4? per cent interest, are now available for Elliotts sailplanes. - ,-. • RETROSPECT -- From "Flight" of April 16, 1910 Foreign Spies at Chalons: As a consequence of the rumours whichreached the ears of the French Minister of War that under the guise of learning to fly, various foreigners have been straying over the miiitaryquarters and taking notes, new regulations, as we foreshadowed, have been promulgated for the use of the parade-ground by aviators. Hence-forth, each aviator, and every one of his pupils, must obtain a permit, on which will be mounted a photograph of the holder, from the militaryauthorities, before he will be allowed to fly, and even then he must be careful not to fly over certain parts of the camp. Moreover, flyingbetween the hours of 8 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. is strictly forbidden.
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