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pdinham
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Saturday 22nd July
As ever our airfield looked beautiful as the sun rose over stunning scenery, The airfield was beautiful as ever but framed in the moody...
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pdinham
Jul 23, 20171 min read
Wet Weekend (22nd & 23rd)
What is the collective noun for a group of winch drivers? On Saturday Pete S sent out an email/SMS requesting a winch driver – there was...
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pdinham
Jul 21, 20172 min read
Thursday 20th July
Moving midweek flying from Wednesday is always a bit of a lottery. Turnout on any other day can be a bit limited. This week was no...
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pdinham
Jul 19, 20171 min read
More on Wednesday 12th
The expectation was for an exceptional day. Phil M and Chris B had the winch out before most of us arrived as they had a 500km in mind....
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pdinham
Jul 19, 20171 min read
Hangar left at the top of the airfield…
…and you may be truly amazed. Monday 17th saw Rowland, Martin S, Alan S and Paul B removing 50 years of worn out tarmac off the hangar...
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pdinham
Jul 14, 20171 min read
250k on wednesday
Chris and I took the Janus on a 250k O/R to SACkville. Due to the slow clearance of early morning rain and low cloud we started the task...
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pdinham
Jul 11, 20171 min read
Shenington Regionals
Wow, what a week! Myself, Claire and Jim are now back from the Shenington Regionals. On the flying side we flew cross country on 7 of the...
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pdinham
Jul 10, 20172 min read
The morning after the night before
There was a time not so long ago when someone going solo was a rare event and I think it must be virtually unknown for three to have...
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pdinham
Jul 10, 20171 min read
Saturday 8th July, what a corker!
Saturday 8th July will probably go down in club history due to the sheer number of achievements. It wasn’t the 41 launches, neither was...
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pdinham
Jul 6, 20171 min read
Wednesday 4th July
T21 sharing a thermal “Blue skies nothing but blue skies” (feel free to sing along). Yup it was blue, hot, sticky and an easterly, not...
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pdinham
Jul 3, 20172 min read
Sunday 2nd July – The Eagle has landed
What a difference a day makes. Saturday: cross-wind; lots of launches (44); not much soaring unless you launched within the “golden”...
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pdinham
Jun 29, 20171 min read
Wednesday 28th June
The met office got it wrong with the overnight yellow warning of heavy rain and rain continuing until midday – light rain overnight and...
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pdinham
Jun 22, 20171 min read
Longest (and hottest) day
With another 30 degree plus day in prospect but this time with no cu only the hardiest of members turned out. Even our visitors, Mike...
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pdinham
Jun 19, 20171 min read
the hot weekend
Sunday’s briefing “The bad news is that the trigger temperature is going to be very hot, the worse news is that we are likely to get it…”...
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pdinham
Jun 18, 20172 min read
Wednesday 14th June
Summer had arrived and with it a record day. 67 launches made it the most launches on one day in the last 10 years – even discounting...
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pdinham
Jun 11, 20171 min read
Wednesday 7th June
Martin relaxing at the start of the day The strong winds on Tuesday had gone but we were still left with a lively westerly. The K8 stayed...
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pdinham
Jun 5, 20171 min read
Shalbourne Gliding on the BBC
Our humble club reached an international audience with the showing of this feature on the BBC World Service News on Monday 29th May. ...
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pdinham
Jun 5, 20171 min read
April Showers, 1st W/E June
The forecast for Saturday had remained relatively stable for several days before hand, thats a good sign. Even better was that it was a...
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pdinham
Jun 1, 20170 min read
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pdinham
Jun 1, 20171 min read
Late finish, Beer, Fish & Chips
The day started with heavy cloud cover, light winds, darkening through the afternoon before eventually opening out into a beautiful,...
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