Gliding 1950 - Lakes Gliding Club

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Lessons of the <strong>1950</strong> Contests N the only noo-flyiqg day at this year's . O National Contests, 28th July, the opportunity was tak
International Contest at Orebro ailly Nilsson, the winner. HE British team at the International T Contest held at Orebro, Sweden, from 3rd to 16th July, had a most interesting, instructive and enjoyable experience; and ifthey did not do so well as had been hoped, this must be attributed in the first place to the exceedingly high standard set up by many of the pilots of the competing countries. H is noteworthy that the scores of the competitors were much closer together than at the 1948 meeting in Switzerland, and in consequence there were some spectacular changes of position, such as the pilot who headed the list on the first day and dropped to 14th place on the second. Everything was exceedingly well organised by our Swedish hosts, and the aero-towed launches, in particular, went like clockwork at a rapid rate on each competition morning. Mrs. Ann Douglas was team captain, and the team was made u" as follows: Senior pilot, Philip Wills, C.B.E., with Weihe sailplane. Ground crew, Mrs. Wills, Mike Smedley and Lt. Cmdr. Nick Goodhart.. -137- Lorne Welch, with the Surrey Qub's Weihe sailplane. Ground crew, John Sowery. Ron Macfie, and Peter Helson. FIt. Lt. R. C. Forbes, with Weihe sailplane. Ground crew, Flt. Lt. Sid Emberley and Sgt. E. W. Basham. FIg. Off. P. G. Mallett, with Gull IV sailplane lent by Mr. Charles Ryle. Ground crew, Capt. Edward Twiss, Sgt. Douglas Campion and Leslie A. Lansdown. Tt is impossible to cover both the International and the National Contests in one issue of GLIDING, but we have been promised a report by one of the Swedish meteorological staff who spent much of his time assiduously collecting information from the pilots, so we hope to be able to deal with this aspect of the flying in a later issue. For the present, we give below a table of the final placings. Order Pilot I Nilsson 2 MacCready 3 Borisek 4 Arbaiter 5 Magi\ll~son 6 Persson 7 Lof 8 Gehriger 9 Fonteilles 10 Lambert II Temmes 12 Comte 13 Aim 14 Haltiala 15 Forbes 16 Jensen 17 Malotaux 18 Rasmussen .19 Maurer 20 Ruckstuhl 21 Lasch 22 Legler 23 Schachenmann 24 Welch 25 Mallett 26 Kleyn 27 Wills 28 Lepanse 29 Haydn Final Placings COlllltry Sweden U.S.A. Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Sweden Sweden Sweden Switzerland France France Finland· U.S.A. Sweden Finland Great Britain Denmark Holland Denmark Switzerland Switzerland South Africa Switzerland Switzerbnd Gr
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