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The PIK-13 was a sailplane constructed in Finland to compete in the 1954
World Gliding Championships
The World Gliding Championships (WGC) is a gliding competitions, gliding competition held roughly every two years by the FAI Gliding Commission. The dates are not always exactly two years apart, often because the contests are always held in the sum ...
,
[Taylor 1989, p.726] held at Camphill Farm,
Great Hucklow
Great Hucklow (Old English ''Hucca's burial mound'') is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District which is under Hucklow Edge between the villages of Tideswell and Bradwell. It has a population of about 100, including Foolow, ...
, UK.
["World Gliding Championships" 1954, p.250] It was a conventional mid-wing design of "workmanlike" construction
["Sailplanes seen at Camphill" 1954, p.3] and underwent five test flights in the course of 1954 before its entry in the competition.
["PIK-sarjan lentokoneet]
In the championships, the PIK-13 was flown by Antti Koskisen,
[Yates 1954, p.74][Wiggin 1954, p.5] who was placed 16th with 931 points.
[''The Lashan Newsletter'' No 23, 1954, editorial] The PIK-13 was destroyed in an accident on 26 March 1956 when the control stick broke in flight.
Pilot Jorma Jalkanen parachuted to safety.
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1950s Finnish sailplanes
PIK aircraft
Glider aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1954
Mid-wing aircraft