Some facts on GXC from present owner, taken from the log book and other documentation.
He hasn't got the facts right. It was built in West Germany 1969. Very first test flight in Germany 49 minutes on 27/10/1969 by H MULLER Next test flight in Narromine 2 hours 40 minutes on 24/12/1969 by W GIESLER From: Noel Roediger Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 12:01 PM To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' ; 'Ron Sanders' ; 'Gliding Australia Forum' Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] History The first two Kestrels came to Aus.in late 67 – just in time for the Nats that were held in Narromine. XC was owned by a syndicate based at Bathurst and XX was owned by Martin Simons, later purchased by the WGC where it still resides but is privately owned. XC was purchased by TT in 68 and he shipped him to Vrsac – Yugoslavia - for the 1970 Worlds. Of note, both these aircraft had balsa cores instead of the foam we are now used to. During the first winter the balsa absorbed moisture and the wing surface clearly showed the balsa planks. The only real cure was to store the aircraft in a warm and dry environment. After Tony sold XC to an Adelaide based syndicate disaster very nearly occurred. Towards the end of winter they noticed the surface distortions and proceeded to sand them out only to find the distortions re-appeared as indentations as summer progressed. Fortunately the smoothing had not touched the glass and a coat of primer/surfacer and further sanding restored the profile. Another interesting sailplane that arrived about the same time was an FK3 imported by Trevor Kyle and to be flown by John Rowe in the Nats. Unfortunately it did not have sufficient documentation to permit it to be flown. Later it was granted a Permit to Fly but after one suffered a mid-flight structural failure VFW recalled it to Europe where it and other survivors were destroyed. Noel From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Brookman Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 10:08 AM To: 'Ron Sanders'; 'Gliding Australia Forum'; 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] History XC now lives at Bordertown, owned by Adam Howell who purchased it from me. Previous to that was owned by Paul Bart ,DDSC., was at Murray Bridge (Pallamana) at one time. Tony T, owned it I guess from new in early 1970’s and flew in World Comps , Italy (i think). Peter Brookman From: Noel Roediger Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 9:23 AM To: 'Ron Sanders' ; 'Gliding Australia Forum' ; 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] History Tony Tabart in XC From: Ron Sanders [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 8:21 AM To: Gliding Australia Forum; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: [gfaforum] History Who was the first Australian to achieve a day win in world competitions? Ron -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gliding Australia Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/glidingaustralia.org/group/gfaforum/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring Virus-free. www.avast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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