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1962
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584 FLIGHT International, 11 October 1962 WORLD N E WS... The Uncrowded Air Even if there were no air traffic control at all in Southern England, the risk of collision between a glider and an airliner would amount only to one in 10,000 years. This was stated by Mr Philip Wills, chair man of the British Gliding Association, at the annual dinner of the Kronfeld Club in London on Friday last, October 5. This year's dinner commemorated the 40th anniversary of the first gliding com petition in Britain, held at Itford Hill in October 1922. Other speakers at the dinner included club chairman, Clifford Tippett; Dr A. E. Slater, editor of Sailplane and Gliding; Col R. L. Preston, secretary- general of the Royal Aero Club; and Kenneth Owen of Flight International. Blackbushe Re-opened Dart Aircraft Ltd and Blackbushe Aero Club were the hosts at a rally and air display to celebrate the re-opening of Blackbushe Airport on Saturday last. October 6. The occasion marked a deserved personal triumph for AVM D. C. T. Bennett of Dart Aircraft, the airport managers, who has campaigned for some years for the re-opening of the airport as a general aviation base intended particularly for business aircraft users. The airfield is to be run on what the Air Marshal calls "a strictly free-house basis." with two or three maintenance firms offering their services and with a choice of communal or private lock-up hangarage. A complete sales advisory service is being offered by Blackbushe Universal Sales Centre, again on an impartial basis involv ing no exclusive agency. Included in an excellent and varied programme on October 6 were Stampe aerobatics by Nick Pocock, aerobatics by an anonymous Hunter, glider aerobatics by Frank Irving in a Skylark 4 and a lusty performance by Hugh Merewether in the Hawker Hart. Participating aircraft varied from the Tiger Club's quartet of Turbulents. dicing low and slow, to a USAF trio of F-100 Super Sabres, deafening the assembled crowd with reheat treatment. RAeS at Prestwick Prestwick branch of the Royal Aero nautical Society, which was formed last month, got off to an encouraging start when within two hours of the opening meeting the branch had enrolled 68 mem bers and received a further 22 applications. "The response has been quite superb," commented the branch chairman, Dr W. G. Watson, assistant chief designer of Scottish Aviation Ltd. This is only the second RAeS branch to be formed in Scotland, the other being in Glasgow. At the opening meeting Mr C. D. Waldron, airport commandant, was elected president of the branch. Each year the branch is to hold a D. F. Mclntyre Memorial Lecture, in memory of the Scottish Aviation managing director who lost his life in a flying accident in 1957. The first, on Man-Powered Flight, will be held in January.
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