Dartmoor Gliding News–Saturday 28th June 2014

Thunder storms were forecast, a few regular members were on holidays.

At first it was just David Bouchier and myself, a little later Martin Smith turned up to do the CofA on the K10 owned by Chris and Karen Matten who arrived 5 minutes after Martin.

So what was achieved today?

The K10 passed its CofA and is ready to go back into the air. While this was being done, David and I put the new cable on the ML winch. This took us to lunch time, which is seemed to switch on the rain. Only one person dared to go out to close the Land Rover window. When David came back he was dripping!!

The afternoon was spent swapping the green Land Rover rear broken spring with a good one that was on the old Grey Land Rover. No easy job as both vehicles would need to be kept supported at the same time.

Checking out to broken rear spring on the Green Discovery

Definitely broken

The Grey Discovery is now only used for spare parts

 The thunder was rumbling all afternoon.

While some of us played mechanic, Karen offered to clean the windows on the Tractor and ML winch, and also cleaned the guttering around the club house.

Karen Cleaning the ML winch windows - how's that dedication

Turnout may have been small, but a lot was achieved.

Rick Wiles