Mike,
No, it wasn't GFG. The Narrogin Skylark was spectacularly written off, thats
for sure. (Its rudder still exists on the hangar wall). GFG came into
Australia imported in an unfinished state. It required covering and
painting. There were a few slingsby gliders imported that way in the 1950's.
It was bought by a syndicate of VMFG members including Jack Iggulden, Alan
Patching, Rupert Brown, Derek Reid and Gordon Mc Donald. It flew for many
years with them and was then sold to the VMFG . It almost ended the same way
as the Narrogin Skylark when it kited up behind a Tiger Moth tipping the
Tiger onto its nose. It was sold to Sydney Tech in the mid 60's who embarked
on remodelling it by lowering the wing ,changing the nose and canopy and
fitting a retractable wheel. It then went through a variety of owners ending
up in WA with the ATC.
3 Skylark 2's were imported, Narrogins was originally owned by Merv Waghorn.
Another was GRB which was owned by a syndicate from the GCV. It still exists
in Brisbane in a damaged state and I consider it will not be possible to
repair it to airworthiness again due to some dubious repairs. It could be
made into a static display and of course GFG.
Trust this helps clear things up.
Cheers
Ian P.
KPST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Borgelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring inAustralia."
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliders in WA museum
At 08:25 PM 25/07/05 +1000, you wrote:
John and Redmond,
Bull Creek does have the Gull 1 and the Kingy. The glider that you think
is
strutted could be the Grunau 2 ex syndicate in WA who were going to
donate
the glider to the AGM and for some reason it just went to Bull Creek. From
what I have been told there was some thought in the gliders at Bull creek
being moved to the AGM once they have a site. We can only hope this will
happen. John your old skylark, and my dads, has dissappeared. The rego is
now on a H-36 Dimona, somewhat ironically with a VMFG member, given the
history of the original GFG.
It would be good to find the remains of GFG, I understand it was together,
and was to be restored but it just didn't happen.
Cheers
Ian Patching
KPST
If GFG was blue with orange wingtips it was owned by Narrogin Gliding Club
and written off in 1971 in a launch accident. I flew it once.
Mike
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