Sailplane & Gliding 1956 - Lakes Gliding Club

cases and retrieving crews, generally run byeither Vie Carr Or John Quick, did theirnoble work with cheerful thoroughness.The Niss.en hut workshop is proving ofgreat use and wiU prove even more so whenthe heating has been laid on. John Colvin,our active house secretary, is at the momentinstalling two slow combustion stoves.On the transport side we have had a muchneeded replacement engine fitted in thesingle drum winch and work is proceedingapace on the two drum winch, whichalthough it has already seen service, needsa lot of mods. before it can be accepted forgeneral use. The biggest job here is toarrange a clutching system so that only onedrum need be driven at a time. Incidentally,we use narrow, large diameter drums withoutpay-on gear; this is an easier job toarrange, although the rather high rotationalinertia does have a detrimental effect duringcable retrieving.It is difficult to- forecast what 1956 willAd.,wr,is.~menI5 with rem;llanc~ sJrould' he se'" 10Clt~iron Press Lld., J. Cor" Sr., Lo>ldon, W.t. (REG~nrQ677J RIIU4d. ~ word. Box numbers 2SdXlrO. R~p1i~s10 Box numlnrs should M $tnl to the IGmt QddreuMISCEllANEOUSWANTED. A second-hand Olympia gliderandlor trailer. Fullest details to Box No. 2:.WANTED. Horn Variometer preferably30 - 0 - 30 M/S. Any reasonable price.Reply: Rutherford, The Close, Bureot,Abingdon.FORSALE"ELEMENTARY GLIDING" by PauBlanchard. Have you bought your copyyet? Fully illustrated and with .appendiceson instruments and thermal soaring. SavestIme in training. From your Gliding Club;or at Ss. 3d. post free from the B.G.A. orThermal Equipment Ltd., 17, HanoverSquare, W.1.SITUATIONSVACANTGROUND ENGINErR or experiencedwoodworker for glider repairs. LondonGliding Club, Dunsta.ble, Beds.TWO-SEATER INSTRUCTOR required.May - September inclusive. Hill site experiencedesirable. London Glid.ing Club,Dunstable, Beds.bring as our plans for the future aregovemed by so many unknown quantities;however, enthusiasm among club membersis as high as ever and many of us are pleasedto notice that we still have growing pains.M.S.H.CROWN AGENTSTHERE is little flying activity to report inthis issue. Our members fly at theLasham Gliding Centre and take part inthe other normal activit:es ofClub life there.The first event of the 1956 season is the'Social Evening', held at the Crown Agents'Office at Millbank, at which John Furlonghas kindly arranged to show a film. Thisevent, due on January 16th, will have takenplace before these notes appear.J.E.G.H.DERBYSHIRE.& LANCASHIRESINCE the last notes went to press in mid­October, there have been no crosscountryflights, if one exclud.es landingsmade, deliberately or otherwise, in fields 'atthe buttom' within a few miles of Camphill.(Reluctance to ask tactless questions makesme unable to state into which category toput the landing south of Great Hucklowmade by our chief instructor; imbued withthe true photographer's determination to'go in close' while getting pictures of abuilding on the south edge, he reached aheight from which even the Sky could notregain the landing-field in the prevailingnorth wind.)There have been several wave days, nonevery spectacular; on October 29th ratberunusual wave conditions were experienced.There was a strong W. wind-about 45knots at 2,000 ft.-with a wispy low cloudsweeping over at 700 ft., and stationarybanks of higher cloud over the west side ofthe Bladwell valley and also extending Eastfrom the soaring edge, leaving the usual'hole' over the valley. Typical smooth wavelift was found up to 2,500 fL (heights abovetake-off) level with the top of the cloudbank, and from the front of the majn cloudseveral tall anvil-shaped towers about500 ft. high stood up, pointing into wind.In front of these, but not inside them, therewas extreme turbulence, periods of a minuteor less of 20 f.p.s. up followed by 20 down,leaving an intriguing wavy trace on the--16-barograph record. The maximum heightreached was only 4,000 ft. A visitin.g: