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1961
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FLIGHT, 3 August 1961 Class I winner in a Cessna 172 entered as a two-seater by W. H. & J. Rogers was A. J. McDonald 143 Right, Airwork's Cessna 3I0D comes in over the tape for the landing contest Below right, the "FlighV'-entered Mooney Mk 21 with pilot C. C. Wilkin- son (centre) and crew-members Arthur Bowbeer (left) and Kenneth Owen Here the problem was to strike an accurate compromise in select-ing the take-off distance. Over-pessimism would lose a few marks, but over-optimism could lose the lot if the aircraft did not clear thetape. A number of take-offs were superbly judged—and corres- pondingly spectacular from the spectators" point of view. Theseincluded Flockhart in the Bellanca, Best-Devereux in the 175 and Jordan in the Tri-Pacer. Both the Super Cub (70yd declared) andthe Super Courier (80yd) failed to clear the tape, as did two of the four twins in Class 3—the Aztec and the 310D. Also completed on the same day was the judging of each aircraft'scomfort and convenience, general condition and flight operating equipment carried, and baggage capacity. As a tailpiece to the official contest, a short-take-off duel betweenthe Super Cub (pilot T. C. Murray) and the Super Courier (C. W. Turner) was staged to decide a £100 wager between Tim Vigors andKenneth McAlpine. "Toss" Murray in the Super Cub had a prac- tised and singular technique which began with revving up the engineand raising the tail while the aircraft was still stationary. At a distance of 75yd to clear the 10ft barrier the Super Cub was thewinner by a clear margin. Detailed results of the competition are given in the accompanyingtables. The Royal Aero Club Diamond Jubilee Trophy for the overall winner, and the McAlpine Cup for the winner of Class 2,went to the Comanche 250 entered by Vigors Aviation Ltd and flown by Ian Forbes. In Class 1 the Osram Cup was won by the Cessna172 entered by W. H. & J. Rogers Ltd and flown by A. J. Mc- Donald; and in Class 3 the winner of the Beagle Cup was the AeroCommander 560F entered by Field Aircraft Services Ltd and flown by Kenneth Burvill. On overall points the Commander came second to the Comanche.with the Mooney Mk 21 entered by Flight and flown by Geoffrey Wilkinson third. Wilkinson had only 2Jhr flying time on the type at the start of the Oxford contest. Mark Lambert of Flight, last-minute replacement for Peter Masefield as pilot of the Masefield Chipmunk, was making his first take-off in the machine in the July28 distance event, in spite of which he came third in his class. The details of the results tables will doubtless be discussed formonths to come. The competition rules took no account of the cost of the aircraft, and an interesting exercise would be to dividethe marks obtained by the aircraft cost, thus obtaining a "points per £" figure which might indicate the business and touring pilot'sbest buy. K. T. O. CLASS Placing 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aircraft Cessna 172 Aircoupe FI-A Chipmunk Colt Condor Super Cub Pilot A. J. McDonald J. W. Hunter C. M. Lambert C. A. K. Scott N. H.Jones T. C. Murray Distance-event pointsFuel bonus(max 60) 60 60 60 29 60 60 Formula (max1,500) 452 478 417 361 301 326 Take-off Declared distancei (yd) ! 190 250 I 360 110 ; 290 I 70 i Points 205 175 120 0 155 0 Landing Distance (yd) 170 289 233 151 168 99 Points 215 156 184 225 216 251 Comfort and con- venience(max 200) 160 139 76 103 135 89 Condition andequip- ment ;(max 300) 157 180 156 i 149 100 96 Baggage (max 200) 200 53 77 188 77 86 Total points 1,449 1,241 1,090 1,055 1,044 908 Placing overall II 16 17 18 19 20 CLASS I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Comanche 250 Mooney 21 Cessna 185 Cessna 175 Tri-Pacer Cruisair Senior Ambassadeur Super Courier Meta-Sokol Safir 1. Forbes G. C. Wilkinson J. Fricker H. Best-Devereux W. H. Jordan R. Flockhart C. Francis C. W. Turner P. S. Clifford J. Hennessy 60 28 60 60 0 39 60 40 60 60 1,022 1.030 965 804 662 900 758 617 691 607 250 250 135 140 115 220 250 80 140 350 175 175 233 230 243 190 175 0 0 125 247 276 259 165 181 271 123 101 234 274 177 162 171 218 210 165 239 250 183 163 169 164 144 160 144 132 135 138 135 130 210 182 152 166 240 120 104 130 127 164 no 55 38 66 95 31 58 191 101 46 1,923 .796 .763 .704 ,594 ,577 ,529 ,366 ,297 ,295 1 3 4 5 7 8 9 12 14 15 CLASS 3 1 2 3 4 Commander P. 166 Aztec Cessna 310 K. 1. Burvill R.J. Young T. A. Vigors R. Potaieter 60 33 60 60 940 645 764 597 290 260 180 220 155 170 o0 299 255 225 282 151 173 188 159 161 151 154 161 272 273 261 251 96 200 65 135 1,835 1.645 1,492 1,363 2 6 10 13
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