1980's glider competition code queries

[seaharrierfa2]

I have been working my way through all my old logs to see what I read off and what I tied in afterwards. I wonder if anyone on here has some actual logs for around the time my queries relate to?

The British Soaring yearbooks are a good source and I have worked through them all but as competition codes changed quite frequently one can never be certain. I have also used Planebase as a reference source too to save anyone searching there.

Some of the links to the books are below for interest

www.lakesgc.co.uk/mainwebpages/eBook%20Library/Batch%201/BRITISH%20%20SOARING%20%20YEARBOOK%201981.pdf
www.sailplaneandgliding.co.uk/archive-item/british-soaring-yearbook-1982-83
www.sailplaneandgliding.co.uk/archive-item/british-soaring-yearbook-1986-87

The following are my direct queries, but there are several more where I have "assumed" the BGA number which I am also working through now. More than happy to share logs of the ones I positively identified, but that needs a bit more work first. On with the list, any help much appreciated.

Bob

17-Apr-1981 Cranfield                465

25-Oct-1981 Duxford                 878

25-Oct-1981 Duxford                 281

03-Apr-1982 Dunstable Downs   176

04-Apr-1983 Bickmarsh            D-8006, no BGA??
21-Oct-1984 Duxford                 X

21-Oct-1984 Duxford                688 Pik-20 (BGA2326?)
02-Nov-1985 Portmoak             151

02-Nov-1985 Portmoak             54

02-Nov-1985 Portmoak             648

14-Jun-1986 Cranwell               581

14-Jun-1986 Cranwell               336

15-Jun-1986 Dunstable Downs  92

15-Jun-1986 Dunstable Downs  245

15-Jun-1986 Dunstable Downs  332

15-Jun-1986 Dunstable Downs  391

05-Jul-1986 Booker                  401

05-Jul-1986 Booker                  19

05-Jul-1986 Booker                  948

05-Jul-1986 Booker                  97

6/7/86 Cranfield                      209

[seaharrierfa2]

Just found this link for Cambridge Gliding which may help some who saw gliders at DUXFORD in days gone by

www.camgliding.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Fleet-Part-3-The-Wooden-Era-2017-03-14.pdf

[zz]

Hi Bob

I've looked through to see which of those glider codes I've seen.
I've seen 8 of these codes - but often several years later, so I can't necessarily confirm whether it was on the same glider that you saw it on!
As I didn't really collect gliders until recently, I didn't take many details, but if I list what I can, it might give you a lead of where to start...?

281 LS4 (G-EENE) 17/06/08 Dunstable
176 01/08/01 Lasham
54 BGA4092 Discus CS (G-CHPH) 29/08/10 Lasham
648 16/09/98 Bickmarsh
581 Ka.6CR (G-DBTF) 20/08/12 Lasham
391 01/08/01 Lasham
209 Ventus T 06/07/86 Cranfield
97 22/04/00 Bicester

Sorry - not much info there and possibly different gliders.
But if you search the codes and airfields, you might get a photo or more information?
cheers
Phil

[seaharrierfa2]

Thanks Phil, looks like we were at Cranfield on the same date. I’ll go back through the soaring yearbooks to see what light they can shed. Found an article on London gliding club 1930-2000 which may shed some light for Dunstable queries but a quick scan of over 120 pages on my phone doesn’t fill me with hope. I’ll see what I can find for your queries but the soaring yearbook with a list of competition numbers to names seems to have finished in the late 80’s (it sometimes gives the trigram but not always) Bob

[zz]

Cheers Bob
As I didn’t really bother with gliders at the time, I sometimes just scribbled the code down and nothing else!
So now I have tried to sort them out, I have many fairly meaningless codes!

Hopefully the couple I’ve provided some details for, might be the same glider that you saw previously, and help you find full details.

Cheers