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314 FLIGHT, 26 August I960 Rounding the control tower is J. W. Judge in the Archbishop. He finished third in the open handicap "Flight" photograph Ladies9 Day at Tliriixtoii FIRST WIN FOR THE LINNET THE races at Thruxton last weekendmight be described as a sort of post-Nationals salute to the air racing year. Two longish handicap races and three one-make pylon races in full view of the aero- drome provided more solid air racingentertainment than was to be seen on any one day of the official racing season. Therecould be no better training ground for some welcome new names to air racingand, most encouragingly, ten girls entered for the ladies' handicap—believed to bethe first such long distance event to be held. A narrow isosceles triangle, the coursefor the 58-mile handicaps comprised legs of 28 miles, 15 miles and 15 miles between Thruxton, Grove Air-field, Ramsbury Airfield and home. It all started quietly enough, with Joan Short, in the only Turbulent in a mixed field ofJackaroos and Tigers, puttering quietly away downwind. She was followed at intervals by the rest of the field, until all tengirls were round the scatter point and heading away for the marker pole on the disused runways at Grove. Here Joan Short cameunstuck, cutting inside the ''pylon" and having to accept the inevitable penalty. But already her lead had been whittled downand at Ramsbury Margot McKellar was leading, hotly pursued by Gillian Cazalet. That was the order of finish, with Miss McKellarjust in the lead from the yellow Tiger. A correction on start time subsequently reversed the order and Gillian Cazalet notched upher first victory of the day, the Faith Bennett cup. Compared to the protracted interval between start and finishof the handicaps, the pylon races, in which well-matched one- make aircraft started simultaneously, were immeasurably moreentertaining. In the first of these, Dennis Hartas demonstrated how effectively height can be varied to gain maximum benefitfrom the wind, and on the second of three 6.8 mile laps he worked the maroon and silver G-ACDC into first place to hold it fromMiss Cazalet and David Phillips in G-APRA. Beverley Snook tried desperately hard in G-ARAZ but, like Janet Ferguson behindhim, could not find the necessary extra knots. The Turbulent event provided a contrast in cornering styles,Norman Jones finding a tight turn to be more effective than Joan Short's gentle ones in whittling down the distance thatseparated them on the first lap. He got the King's Cup winner G-ANZZ (now back to near-standard form) into second place onlap 2, but could make no impression on the King's Cup runner-up G-APZZ flown by Ian Trethewy. Waugh's slower aircraft broughtup the field. Sheila Scott established a most commanding win over Read,Ramsay-Smith and Gush's Jackaroos in the last of the pylon events, winning from Read by 25sec. There was a sensation atthe start when Miss Scott diced off the deck in an alarming turn, and Parry's race ended when he nosed-over on opening up. In the open handicap, last event of the day, a seemingly impos-sible task faced Vivian Bellamy in the Hampshire Aeroplane Club's lovely Spitfire 8. When he took off, 28min 32sec behindWaugh's leading Turbulent, the first aircraft was already crossing Ramsbury with only 15 miles to go to the finish. The progressof the race was in doubt until the final minutes, partly because of the difficulty of the observers at the country pylons in spotting competitors' numbers. When the leaders came into sight, theSpitfire had only just reached Ramsbury and, over the hedge, it seemed a comfortable first win for David Phillips and the British-built Linnet, notwithstanding that he had hit a bird with his spinner. But as he crossed the line, the Spitfire snarled downupon him, failing by less than one second to snatch the lead. Judge and Hartas were close up, but the back workers trailed far,far behind. After a promising start the Arrow Active had suffered a defective magneto and arrived only when the field had landed,and it was a quarter of an hour later when the last, lost Turbulent came into view. A good race to crown the day, marred by onlyone non-starter—Peter Masefield's Chipmunk which, after all- night work at Wisley, was prevented from taking off by ananti-noise ban on Sunday flying. OPEN HANDICAP Start Order 1 2 34 5 5 7 8 810 11 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pilot E. Waugh I. Trethewcy P. GushR. Croysdill P. Barber H.Jackson B. Snook T. Parry D. HartasJ. Harris Miss C. Cazalet Miss S. Scoct J. Stewart-Wood J. W. Judge D. Phillips C. N. Bishop P. Dawson V. Bellamy Aircraft Turbulent Turbulent JackarooJackaroo Jackaroo Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger MothTiger Moth Tiger Moth Jackaroo Auster V Tiger Moth Linnet Arrow Active Proctor 3 Spitfire Regn. G-APIZ G-APZZ G-AOEXG-AOIX G-APAO G-AMBI G-ARAZ G-AOJJ G-ACDCG-AOCV G-ANPK G-APAM G-AIKE G-ANZZ G-APNS G-ABVE G-ANZJ G-AIDN Potn. _ _ 1314 15 12 5 10 4 9 6 11 7 3 1 — 8 2 LADIES' HANDICAP Start Order 1 2 3 4 5 67 8 9 10 Pilot Joan Short Beryl Sounders Margot McKellar Frankie Kane Janet Ferguson Zita PaddenMargot Torrens Jill Cook Sheila Scott Gillian Cazalet Aircraft Turbulent Jackaroo Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger Moth Tiger MothJackaroo Tiger MothJackaroo Tiger Moth Regn. G-APIZ G-AOEX G-APRA G-AMBI G-ARAZ G-AOJJG-APAO G-AOCVG-APAM G-ANPK Posn. — 8 2 6 3 59 14 1 A field of Tigers, Jack- aroos and Turbulent! was enlivened by two entrant' of sharply contrasting appearance—the Hamp- shire Aeroplane Uufis Spitfire 8 and th» Tiger Club's Arrow Active "Flight" photograph
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