Olympia 463 Hot Ship?
8 June 1962 I converted to the Olympia 463 which was a fairly new machine for the club as far as I can remember. It was a 35 minute flight and I enjoyed something that had a bit more penetration than the Oly 2.
As It happens this was the only flight I ever had in this machine as someone broke it a week or two later in a competition. So I was back to an Oly 2 again next time out.
8 June 1962 I converted to the Olympia 463 which was a fairly new machine for the club as far as I can remember. It was a 35 minute flight and I enjoyed something that had a bit more penetration than the Oly 2.
As It happens this was the only flight I ever had in this machine as someone broke it a week or two later in a competition. So I was back to an Oly 2 again next time out.
The pilot who broke 249 (the Moonrakers 463) was John Allerton, flying his first Competition out of Dunkeswell. He later was a resident instructor at Sutton Bank. It was repaired, and I had a few 300K attempts in it, including one on 1966 World Cup Final day when a CuNim shower washed me out of the sky near Abingdon; Ed Meddings appeared from his quarter there and we watched the final at his house.
ReplyDeleteConverted to the 463 in January 1967 from the Grunau baby. Knew I could fly it from the first time I saw it in the hangar, so beautiful. In July took it for a flight of 1 hour 22 mins. I will never forget the thrill and magic of that sailplane.
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