My apologies for my not remembering who flew the first 500, thankyou Anne for the lead, it was Stuart Cox in the Waikerie Ka6, Patch ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 19 July, 2012 1:13:09 PM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 106, Issue 57
Here is Geoff's story of the flight. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann Woolf To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 106, Issue 57 AG Sept 1968 page 6 - A 418 mile Boomerang by Geoff Tremain On 18/07/2012 11:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:03:24 +1000 From: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Club Class Records: unofficial To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Message-ID: <F2D919568031478ABFF47A5B430F0BE9@ACERV3600G> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hi Patch, Please enlighten me. What are the achieved benchmarks - both official and unofficial - for a Boomerang/Super Arrow, that you know about? I seem to recall that a couple of SA pilots were doing flights of 600k plus, many years ago, including at least one flight across Spencer Gulf. Do you have an AG reference for that flight? Ballsy stuff maybe, but I suggest it might be hard to beat Percy Wills' flight, and story on how he almost(?) accidentally glid across the English Channel. I endorse your comments in Para 2. It seems to me that despite my earlier comment (which I stand by), about the best place for most 1-26 gliders is in a museum, over the years the owners (as a collective), of these ships have tested all the limits of what is possible with this type, (and the type did evolve, as you well know, so there are many model variations), under (almost?), every possible situation. It is extremely unlikely that any current record for the type can be improved upon. In my opinion another good reason to put 99% of these ships in museums, before structural/glue or other failure kills somebody. Having made a point or two about the 1-26 as a type, let me make one more about the skill of the best of the 1-26 pilots. It can be summed up in one word -Awesome! Gary _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2437/5138 - Release Date: 07/17/12 _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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