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Wednesday 26th Feb
This time it was Paul P’s turn to throw down the gauntlet on the second launch of the day setting 19 minutes as the time to beat. It...
pdinham
Mar 3, 20141 min read
Sunday 2nd March
Despite today turning out to be a non-flying day at least one member managed to get something out of his trip to the club....
pdinham
Mar 2, 20141 min read
Saturday 22nd
Second launch of the day, Mark P is thrown at the sky and sticks. The K13’s just stuck to circuits while Trevor G and Bob B pulled out...
pdinham
Feb 24, 20141 min read
Wednesday 19th February
After the fog and drizzle cleared there appeared a ragged cloud base of between 800 and 1400 feet which lifted by degrees until the sky...
pdinham
Feb 21, 20141 min read
Sunday 16th
After two weeks of wind and rain we get a great day – and at the weekend! Launches to 2,000+’ and 4 knotters to almost 3,000′. Flights...
pdinham
Feb 17, 20141 min read
Sunday 2nd Feb
Busy day for the time of year with 27 launches and just a K13 and the Puchacz flying (a touch breezy for the K8). It wasn’t until launch...
pdinham
Feb 5, 20141 min read
Rest of January
Distinct lack of entries for the second half of January and there are people out there interested to hear (OK, well, one person had...
pdinham
Feb 5, 20141 min read
Tuesday 14th January
What do you call the man who flew the Ka8 for the first time, practiced stalls and use of air brakes and still stayed airborne 30% longer...
pdinham
Jan 14, 20141 min read
Awards Dinner
32 members and guests attended the Annual Dinner, admirably cooked and served by Marion and her team at The Plough, Shalbourne. Awards...
pdinham
Jan 14, 20141 min read


Saturday 11th Jan
Few squeeze more out of a day than our Stephen.
pdinham
Jan 11, 20141 min read
Wednesday 8th January
After a whole 12 hours without rain the field had drained sufficiently to operate. Only able to pull one cable up the hill we retrieved...
pdinham
Jan 8, 20141 min read
2nd January 2014
The first dry day of New Year and soarable to boot! Having made safe a storm damaged panel on the hangar roof, we received some bad news....
pdinham
Jan 2, 20141 min read
Sunday 29th Dec
Liz Sparrow wrote… Sunny and soarable today… …but not terribly warm – the ice didn’t thaw all day except in the sun. Meanwhile a great...
pdinham
Dec 30, 20131 min read
A camera can’t see this
Last launch of the day – 2200 ft and two minutes after sunset, soft scarlet strands merging layer cloud into threads of valley mist to...
pdinham
Dec 11, 20131 min read


Sunday 8th December
As yesterday’s forecast suggested today was indeed a good flying day. Loads of good high launches, plenty of extended soaring and for me...
pdinham
Dec 8, 20131 min read
pdinham
Dec 8, 20130 min read


Wednesday Sunset
We were treated to a splendid sunset. Camera on my ‘phone hardly does it justice but here goes anyway. As to what could have been...
pdinham
Dec 8, 20131 min read


Sunday 1st December
Following the rather splendid previous day (34 launches, 10:47 time flown and 28 people taking to the air), Sunday was much more modest...
pdinham
Dec 8, 20131 min read


Photo Comp
Best gliding photo that you have personally taken wins a prize at the annual dinner. To enter post your photo on blog, tweet with...
pdinham
Dec 5, 20131 min read
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