PRIVATE FLIGHT

UK hosts world aerobatics SOUTH CERNEY The 13th world aerobatic championships gets under way this weekend at South Cerney in Gloucestershire. This is the second time that the UK has hosted the event, the championship having been held not a million miles away at Hullavington in 1970. This year's event has been sponsored by the British importer of Volkswagen cars, which has also provided financial support to Ian Padden, a member of the Brit­ish team who has come in to replace Philip Meeson.

During the past few weeks the teams have been arriving in the UK. Qantas was expected to provide Boeing 747 carriage for the Austra­lian team of three Pitts. The

The Volkswagen 13th World Aerobatic Cham­pionships (WAC86) August 1-17—South Cerney airfield, Cirencester, Glos

August 1 Arrival of WAC86 partici­pants and aircraft

August 2-4—0900 -1700hr Practice flying at South Cerney and RAF Kemble

August 3—1600hr Formal Opening Ceremony at South Cerney

August 5-15—0900~1700hr WAC86 competition flying: Known compulsory (pre-set by the FAI), Free-style, 20 figures; Unknown compul­sory; top pilots go on to four-minute free-style

August 16—0900-1700hr Volkswagen World Festival of Aerobatics and Airshow including: 1986 World aero­batic champions and presentation of WAC86 prizes and trophies (1700hr)

August 17 Competitors and aircraft depart

Admission Public will be admitted to South Cerney airfield each day (August 1-17) from 0900 to 1700hr. Charges: August 1-15 and 17: adults £1; children under 14 free; August 16: adults £3, children 8-14 £2, children under eight free. There is free parking on each day.

USA team was scheduled to come by USAF Lockheed C-5A Galaxy. This team comprises nine pilots and nine aircraft. These teams have been training at Strathallan and Bodmin, respectively.

Soviet participation was expected to involve ten pilots who would fly a pair of Yakovlev Yak-50s and two Sukhoi Su-26s.

The next two weeks will see the more-than-60 pilots flying known, unknown, and free­style sequences of aerobatic manoeuvres before the leading pilots fly the deciding stage, which is scheduled to be concluded on August 15. It will be followed by an aero­batic festival on August 16.

This Pitts S-2S will be flown by Britain's Ian Padden

Volkswagen 13th World Aerobatic Championships 1986 Nation

Austria Australia

Belgium Canada Czechoslovakia

France

Hungary

Italy Norway Poland

Spain Switzerland United Kingdom

United States of America

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

West Germany

Pilots

Walter Egger Geoff Selvey, Chris Sperov, Peter Larsen, Bonnie Henderson Albert Hage, Bernard Gillon Gerry Younger, Guido Lepore Petr Jirmus, Jiri Sailer, Pavol Cico, Richard Ponizil, Petr Poborsky, Jana Sablikova Claude Bessiere, Patrick Paris, Louis Pena, Georges Muzergues, Christian Lesage, Catherine Maunoury, Marianne Maire, Brigitte Delasalle-Lesage Jozsef Balatoni, Peter Besenyei, Tibor Szilagyi Sergio Dalian, Tomaso Marzetti Tor Andre Fusdahl Janusz Kasperek, Marek Szufa, Jerzy Makula •)* Eric Muller (and others) Peter Kynsey, Ian Padden, Nigel Lamb, John Harper, Tony Bianchi, Diana Britten

Kermit Weeks, Clint McHenry, Henry Haigh, Gene Beggs, Harold Chappell, Linda Mevers, Debby Rihn, Julie Pfile, Patti Wagstaff

Victor Smolin, Nikolai Nikitiuk, Yurgis Kairis, Sergie Boriak, Nikolai Tirnofeev,

Aircraft

Zlin 50LS Pitts S-l/2 (three)

9*

Pitts S-1T (C-GBKF) <}*

ASA 200 (F-WYGN) DL.260 (F-WYSP) Capena (F-WZTC) TR.260 (F-WTXK, 'YVF) Cap 230 (F-ZWVK) Zlin 50LS (HA-SIF, 'G)

?* Pitts S-2S (G-SOLO) Zlin 50LS (SP-AUC, 'D)

«f* Extra 230 (and others) Stephens Akro Z/Laser (VH-AUF), Extra 230 (G-PMNL), CAP 21 (G-BLZZ, 'PPS) Weeks Solution (N300KW), Extra 230 (N230X), Super Star (N8HH), Abernathy Streaker (N344Q), Pitts S-lS (N689HC, '169CM), Pitts S-1T (N49307, '104JP, '200ST) Sukhoi Su-26 (two), Yakovlev Yak-50 (two)

Khalide Makagonova, Valentina Yaikova, Liubov Nemkova, Irina Adabash, Elena Kliovich Walter Extra, Frank Gerstenberg, Sebastian Grassl, Wolfgang Jagle

* Final details not known late last month

Extra 230 (D-EJNC, 'KEW), Zlin 50 LS (D-EHWH), Pitts S-1E (D-EIEW)

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