GLIDING TITLES
Entries set record Seventeen entries have been received for the South Island regional gliding championship) at Omarama this week-end. It is the second successive year the contest has been held at Omarama. and it will be held under the auspices of the newlv* formed Omarama Soaring Centre. The entry is a record. Tomorrow will be a practice day and the next aeven will ba contest days. The events ere in three classes—open, standard (for gliders with a wingspan of IS metres or leas) and sports (for the more common dub-typo gliders). The championship winner will receive a subsidy to help him eompete at the national championships at Matamata in January. The two top pilots in both standard and open classes at tho national event will compete in tho world championships In Australia late next year. The favourites for the South Island title include I. Evans (Nelson). who represented New Zealand in 1970, and D. Watera (Dunedin). Two other top pilots are B. Drake and R. Georgeson, of Christchurch, who will fly tho same machine on alternate days. Georgeson has represented New Zealand, and reeenUy sot his fourth world gliding record.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 16
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