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1964
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FLIGHT International, 2 April 1964 551 Auckland Aero Club's recently acquired Skymasttr (with Sud-Cardan Horizon in background) at Ardmore Aerodrome (see news item on this page) S PORT AND wmmm BUSINESS Mr Eric King has been elected vice-chairman of the Popular Flying Association, for whom he has acted as engineering executive for some time World Gliding Records The British Gliding Association has announced that Mrs Anne Burns, flying a Standard Austria, has gained the following world gliding records for flights made in South Africa: 500km triangle speed record, 103.33km/hr on December 25, 1963 (also a new British national record and women's British national record); 300km triangle speed record, 86.66km/hr on January 5, 1964 (also women's world record, British national record and women's British national record). Auckland Aero Club is now operating a Cessna Skymaster on charter work from the club's Ardmore aerodrome. Pictured in the heading photograph, this aircraft is the 150th Cessna to be delivered to New Zealand, and is believed to be the 700th Cessna in Australasia. Purchase of the Skymaster was made possible largely by a guarantee by New Zealand Forest Products for a fixed number of hours of contract flying. Charter rate for the six-seater is £20 per hour, with a reduction for club members. The 32 New Zealand flying clubs are increasingly busy on charter work at present. John Heaton We regret to record the death of Mr E. J. Heaton, chief instructor of Wiltshire School of Flying. Mr John O. Isaacs writes: "When I was compelled by circumstances to take my new Fury biplane to Thruxton last summer for the final stages of construction and storage John Heaton was one of the first to welcome me, and he proved a staunch friend and ally in the brief time that I knew him. "I well recall that last Friday in August when the last split-pin had been opened out, the necessary insurance cover arranged, the Permit to Fly arrived, and I suddenly realized the Fury was ready to go. I asked John whether he felt brave and he immediately came down to the hangar, was quickly briefed on the aeroplane, and then proceeded to fly it round for a quarter of an hour. This was only the beginning of his help to me personally. "In the Wiltshire Flying Club it was often said that John Heaton was Thruxton. Certainly he gave it absolutely all he had with no reservations and consequently made Thruxton one of the few airfields where the genuine private pilot, amateur builder, or just plain aeroplane lover, was truly welcome. "John seldom left the club and his range of duties knew no bounds from flying instructor, guide, counsellor and friend to all, to organizing the next day's rations for the club restaurant. He Was a fighter, too, for the little man in aviation. "Of considerable physical stature, John was a giant among men in every way. His passing leaves a big gap which can never be filled in quite the same way. He lies in the little churchyard of Thruxton village, beneath the circuit of the aerodrome he knew and loved so well." Mr Heaton joined Wiltshire School of Flying in 1952. Cherokee Tours A 23-day flying holiday, touring the USA in Piper Cherokee 180s, is now available to private pilots and their passengers in a group plan devised by a French travel agency in collaboration with Piper Aircraft, Air France and others. Two tours are being arranged, the first during July 8-30 and the second during August 4-27. The cost is £425 per head; prospective tour pilots must be checked out on the Cherokee before departure (in Britain this can be done at CSE Aviation Ltd, Oxford Airport); and applications should be addressed to the Federation Aero- nautique Internationale at 6 rue Galilee, Paris 16. Aerobatic Contest for the McAully Trophy, organized jointly by the Tiger Club and the McAully Flying Group, will be held at Little Snoring Airfield during the weekend of April 11-12. The competition will be restricted to pilots who have not competed in an international aerobatic competition, and all flights will be made in Tiger Moth aircraft. US Air Racing After a lapse of several years, a US national air race meeting is to be held at Reno, Nevada, during Septem- ber 12-20. Competitive events for various classes of aircraft are scheduled, together with a long-distance race from Clearwater, Florida, and an aerobatic contest. Recently demonstrated in New Zealand was this Australian visitor, a McCulioch powered autogyro marketed by Bee Aircraft Pty Ltd of Melbourne
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