As you can see JMX is currently on holiday at Keevil. I’m sure she will welcome any visitors! Phil

As with previous years Shalbourne Gliding is trying to get together a few keen members so we can participate in the Interclub. We travel...

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this on Tuesday. We enjoyed toasting our marshmallows!

With the lack of a serviceable winch at Shalbourne we towed the Janus, LS7 and Duo over to Keevil for a day’s flying. On the way out of...

Merry Christmas to all and happy soaring in 2015

Sat 6th December It was a beautiful winters day to go gliding, the morning’s hard frost clearing to give blue skies and a gentle wind on...

What a delightful day.  Sun was out, wind blowing from the north.  Launches of up to 2,200′ were available (in the K8 and 2,100′ in the...

The sun made a welcome appearance and tempted a lot of folks out for the day, including visits from a couple of former members. John T...

..will be known for all time as the mid-November day when it was too hot to have a jumper on… The early morning fog and cloud...

Pete’s image has a particular poignance for me. I flew my Silver Distance from Shalbourne to Tarrant Rushton in 1974. At that time...

We flew today because they did.

Needless to say the Janus was duly rigged and launched into a sort of promising sky. Cloudbase was 1700ft and there were patches of...

Decided lack of blog entries so I’ll just do a brief summary of the days remaining in October. Wednesday 22nd Not a very promising...

Well! The day started – as forecast by the Met Office – with a howling crosswind. It was – as forecast by me – also thermic with...

Cloudbase on Saturday was initially a bit low and with the forecast of rain by mid afternoon many thought we were a bit daft to rig the...

The low cloud failed to lift before the rain arrived – at 14:00 exactly on the time forecast. The few of us there helped Colin get the...

Here’s the evidence of being above the cloud and the fog in the distance. There was a lot of circuit bashing with no one breaking into...

As often happens when fog fills the valleys, Rivar Hill kept its head above the clouds. The sun never quite broke through but visibility...

Holiday time and an opportunity to slope off and visit the local gliding club. This time it was the Norfolk GC at the massive WW2...

A modest turnout but another very enjoyable days flying at Shalbourne, by close of play we had flown a reasonable 31 flights. It was one...