1983 #5 p16 Club News Free Flight

                               FIRST MARITIMES DIAMOND
         
         The first ever gold distance diamond goal
         flight has just been completed in the Atlan-
         tic provinces, from the Bluenose Soaring
         Club site at Stanley, NS. The flight was
         done on 13 June 1983 over a 303 km
         triangle in an Open Cirrus by the author,
         from Lake George to Middle Musquodo-
         boit to Eastville (Nova Scotia).
         
         What won I'd I give to be able to take C-FXGU 
         out to Alberta, under those high
         cloud bases and over, I pressure, endless
         safe landing fields.  Here in Nova Scotia
         when we look down, we see mostly woods,
         rocks, swamps and the Atlantic Ocean.
         John Firth, when asked by one of our
         members if he would consider coming
         east to give us in-air cross-country instruc-
         tion said he didn’t think he’d like to.
         
         I would like to add that I was the first per-
         son to obtain a Silver C badge with all
         flights completed in Nova Scotia and New
         Brunswick, and I hope that more flights of
         this kind of adventure will soon fill the
         books’
         
         Tom Foote