COMBAT AND COMPETITION.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

COMBAT AND COMPETITION
4. The Guilds. Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. Guild of Air Traffic
Controllers.
5. A.T.C. Air Traffic Control.
6. Dunstable. Site of the London Gliding Club which was being threatened
by an expanded Control Zone round Luton Airport.
7. Standard Class Design. Maximum span 15 metres. Retractable
undercarriage permitted but no flaps.
8. R.A.F.G.S.A. Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association.
9. Hahnweide. East of Stuttgart. Location of the Schempp-Hirth sailplane
factory.
10. Dolphin Flying. Cross country soaring without circling. Came into its
own with modem glassfibre designs which, because of their flat gliding
angles can use this technique in a wide range of conditions. Glider is
pulled up to reduce speed when running into lift and accelerated when
leaving it. Effectively a continuous process with the speed varying
according to the vertical velocity of the air through which the glider is
passing.
11. BG 135 Winning its First Race. Actually equal first with George Lee
flying a K-6E.
12. "On Edington Hill" from Selected Poems by Siegfried Sassoon. By
permission of George Sassoon.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
1. S.B.A.C. Society of British Aerospace Companies.
2. M.O.D. Ministry of Defence.
3. C.A.A. Civil Aviation Authority.
4. N.A.T.S. National Air Traffic Service.
5. Pilot Operated Starts. Competing pilots carry time base cameras and
photograph the start line as they cross it at the beginning of a race. Thus
recording their starting time on film.
6. Ground Clock Option. An alternative (or back up to time base cameras)
for pilot operated starts. A large ground clock is set up adjacent to the
start line. This is photographed as in 5. above. Ground clocks are usually
digital and non numeric in format.
EPILOGUE
1. "All Souls Day" from Selected Poems by Siegfried Sassoon. By
permission of George Sassoon.
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