Report to Free Flight from Bluenose Soaring
1980 Volume #1 (Jan/Feb) page 11


When we stopped our flying on October 27th for our combination 
Ham and Potato Scallop and Halloween Party, we had logged 976 
flights. This is 52% better than last year and a record for 
BSC. We intend to go over 1000 before we shut down for '79. 

 Costume prizes for women went to Gisele Burglund and Terri 
McBride; for men: George Graham and John Clements. We had 
a "Chinese Night" supper party in September as well, also 
ably and amply created by Chef Ralph Olive and his Assistants.
 On October 131h. Doug Girard took his twin-engined 
Pioneer II off the ground for it's first test flight; and 
on October 27th he launched into a thermal for an afrernoon 
of soaring.  Doug promises an article for Free Flight.

Ralph Olive painted up an attractive "5 hour Club" billboard, 
and after the summers flying, the following names are there 
on enshrined; Doug Girard, Ralph Olive, Chris
Purcell, George Graham, and Tom Foote.

 Since the November-December report. students Shirley Mercer, 
Gordon Waugh and Dick Vine have gone solo; Shirley in the 
Ka-7 and Gordon and Dick in the 2-22E. After these solos 
the instructors were just dozing off when some new students came
screaming onto the field. They had joined the club as a 
result of an "Introduction to Gliding" program put on during 
EAA 305's Labour Day Fly-ln, to the tune of 81 intro
flights. Like new students often do they soon showed a 
disrespect for established lines of authority by dumping 
CFI Jack Dodds out of his hammock and demanding instant 
instruction. Sensing a shift in the wind the rest of us 
instructors dusted the leaves off of our sweaters and 
hastened to take up station: beside the trainers: and 
thereafter instituted the ceremony of saluting (and/or 
bowing to the students as they approached, thus bring
ing our student-instructor relationship more in line 
with that in place elsewhere.

 Ralph Clark and Chris Purcell have overhauled the '53 GMC 
engine; and we hope to take it down to the airfield before 
snowfall 

 Dick Vine has taken over the responsibility for building 
the pulley fair-lead system, thus relieving Dan to concentrate 
on his Eaglet fuselage.

 Club members are talking more gliders, and by the time your 
soaring friends read this we may well be tooling to buy 
anything from a 2-33 to a Ka-6. So if you or your club 
desires to sell your older glider and go for glass, or 
whatever, please contact us.