Yet another wet Wednesday but it was followed by a promising looking Thursday.  Enough wind on the ridge to make that work – except any...

Saturday – Big Showers Retrieve vehicle window Sunday – Better than forecast N’s window N’s window 737’s window

Report from Stan Oram: Despite varying interpretations of the weather forecast the optimists turned out to host a group of former Royal...

There are times when I feel proud and privileged to be part of Shalbourne Gliding.  Tuesday 25th July was such a day.  A day of flying...

As ever our airfield looked beautiful as the sun rose over stunning scenery, The airfield was beautiful as ever but framed in the moody...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

What a difference a day makes.  Saturday: cross-wind; lots of launches (44); not much soaring unless you launched within the “golden”...

The met office got it wrong with the overnight yellow warning of heavy rain and rain continuing until midday – light rain overnight and...

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...

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...

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...

The forecast for Saturday had remained relatively stable for several days before hand, thats a good sign. Even better was that it was a...

It was a rubbish flying day, best flight of the day going to John D in DHA, but the barbecue that followed once the toys were put away...

On Wednesday we had a couple of visiting gliders from Lasham. One of them was a DG500 with Jeff Lynes and Simon Holland on-board. They...

Jim and Jim were duty but they had swapped. That meant that Jim got all the bad weather that Jim usually gets on his duty days but that...