Thanks Ken, I knew you would know.. So my photo is the Foka 3, 1965 and fresh
out of the crate.
Derek, yes, in those days we flew off the grass on the north side of the 24/06
main strip.
Graham
On 5/09/2011 1:43 PM, Kenneth Caldwell wrote:
Attached is a photo of the Foka, competition number 70, taken at the Seventh
Australian National Gliding Championships held at Narromine (27th December
1966 - 9th January 1967). The Waikerie Boomerang is in the background. The
Foka pilots were Jan Coolhaas and John Blackwell. Graham's photo is probably
of Trevor Kyle's Foka 3 which he flew with Jan Coolhaas in the Sixth Nationals
at Waikerie.
Ken
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Mike Timbrell <mike.timbr...@techpack.net.au
<mailto:mike.timbr...@techpack.net.au>> wrote:
No Graham, our Foka 4A had the reverse colouring. Mostly white with a burnt
orange flash down the fuse. GUW. It was a beautiful thing to fly.
I have now located the original identification plate. Build year 1967. Too
bad, it would have been a good story.
Mike
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Is this the one? I took this photo in 1965 or 1966 at Camden. George Detto
in the cockpit if I remember.
Graham
On 4/09/2011 10:27 PM, Paul Mander wrote:
> Small world, Jarek.
> Having finally got to look at the footage, I see Foka IV, competition
> number 70. That was in 1965.
> In 1969 Mike Timbrell, a couple of other Sydney Tech Gliding Club
> members and I bought a Foka IV from the Bathurst Soaring Group, a
> syndicate of eight that included Merv Waghorn. They had owned the
> glider for a few years, so it must have been imported soon after 1965.
> It had competition number 70 on the fin, in exactly the same style as in
the film.
> I think there is a strong chance that this is the same glider. I did
> my Silver and Gold flights in it, and thereby established some great
> friendships with members of the old Concordia Gliding Club during
> their camps at Forbes.
> We had that very rigging tool, never had a problem but one had to be
> careful with alignment.
> Sadly, the glider was written off in a take off accident; the Foka IV
> had huge spoilers, far too much drag for a mere Auster to overcome.
> It was an interesting glider, all wood, having no spar. It depended on
> its thick plywood skins for the wings' strength. We encountered glue
> problems which thereafter always lurked, in my mind at least. Might
> have been a good thing that it went. Apart from that, I've always
> thought it to be the best wooden glider ever made.
> Another connection; I was taken for my first glider flight in 1968 by
> Peter Hanneman, ex RAF Red Arrows and recent New Australian. What
> chance that he was flying one of the (?) Hawker Hunters in the Opening
> Day aerobatic display? Peter may even have had a hand in the glider's
> purchase and he lives in Bathurst. Mike Timbrell is in a position to
> check, and I'm sure he'll let us know.
> Thanks for the memories.
> Paul Mander
>
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> Something about Fokas but on much happier note.
> Recently discovered in the archives, Polish propaganda movie about the
> 1965 World Comps in South Cerney from the Polish team perspective:
> http://www.flyingtv.pl/film,lotnictwo62,filmy-0,ile-10,samolot-415.htm
> l If you can bear the comments in Polish, a very slow server and
> lengthy socialist propaganda scenes, there are some interesting
> moments showing the world comps in the 60b , including a Foka being
> rigged with the proper T-wrench.
>
> Regards
> Jarek
>
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