Zimmerman
Ref the great Karl, (Charlie) Zimmerman ... I first met Charlie at the 1986 WHC event at Cranfield. His unbelievable B105 freestyle display took second place to Herman Fuchs similar display. Charlie later said to me something like .. "My wife has been going to bed with a world champion for the last two events, but now as I came second, she is going to bed with a new man." German humour OK. On the final day of the event, I got to fly with him and couldn't even follow his sequence of control movements that produced his inverted flat spin with a roll recovery at around 100 feet! Andy Berryman took a fourth place with his service Gazelle. I suffered my second T/R failure during a max power torque turn when the left hand cable was 'snipped' by the upgoing T/R blade causing the floppy cable end to wind itself around the T/R gearbox and seize. I did manage to get the Enstrom down without damage in a 70 knot run-on landing. Happy days ... I think!
Dennis Kenyon.