I.W. Kaynes

LAST DECEMBER it had appeared that there might not be a Free Flight World Championships in 1977 and, moreover, that the events might be held only every three years. The Danes came to the rescue and in well under a year they managed to put on a superbly organized Champs at Roskilde. This is a historic town about 30 miles west of Copenhagen and the flying site was a general aviation airfield which continued to be open to traffic between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Two trimming sites were available during the preceding week, but they were of limited value since they were both very small and it was windy. The US team had flown into Copenhagen early enough to use the practice sites as much as possible. John Lenderman, team manager, went to Denmark before them and was well prepared by the time of the team's arrival.