GDay Ken, cant open your attachments. any chance of sending them again. Regards JR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Caldwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Boomerang (was Kingfisher)
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:28 +0930, Catherine Conway wrote: > > Yep I can confirm that GQZ's competition number was 49. It still wears that > > today on top of its fin (see the small white numbers in this photo - > > http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/register/oldpics/GQZ.htm). > > Regarding competition numbers, I have scanned in some pages from the > official programmes for the seventh (1966-67 Narromine) and eighth > (1967-68 Benalla) National Gliding Championships. > > These pages show competition number, aircraft type, pilots and owner. > Cross referencing this information with the Gliding Register in the 1969 > Australian Gliding Year Book may sort out some of the confusion. > > Note that the Dubbo Grunau IV and the Kingaroy ES57 were late entries to > the seventh Nats. and the numbers may have been unofficial. The numbers > 100 and 101 appear to have been allocated to a couple of Boomerangs for > the eighth nationals. > > I can find no reference to an ES57 registered to the Kingaroy club in > the 1969 year book but there were several privately owned in Queensland > by then. May be one of these was the one at Narromine. I vaguely > remember someone describing it as a MkIII but I couldn't swear to it > after all it was nearly forty years ago! > > I have somewhere a photo showing Boomerangs 49 and 50 in the tie down > area. > > cheers, > > Ken > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
