Heavy rain, low cloud and a crosswind, which persisted for much of the day, didn't deter a dozen or so of our stalwart members from turning up to find out what the club had to offer or, as it turned out, what they could do for the club.
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| When not on tea making duties, David kept himself busy in the hangar |
As happens on such occasions, there was much drinking of tea and discussion of current topics ranging from club management issues and arrangements for the forthcoming open day, to the appearance in the hangar of a Bocian two-seater glider, which is the latest addition to our training fleet.
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| The hangar was quite a busy place. |
Around mid-day Mike Keller headed home to work on his recently-assumed administration responsibilities for trial lessons, while our field treasurer, Dave Rippon, went off to 'crunch numbers'. But it didn't take an abacus - let alone a pocket calculator - to reveal that several members still owe the club money for flights they have already taken (in some instances ages ago).
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| Field Treasurer Robin with strimmer and PPE. |
For most of the day, when he wasn't fiddling around with some electronic gizmo for his glider, our other field treasurer, Robin Wilson, was to be found braving the appalling weather to strim large areas of grass around the clubhouse and hangar. And I think those of us who are private owners owe him a pint, because he even strimmed around our trailers.
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| After it stopped raining the members got busy. |
During early pm the sun showed its face for a while and, with the hangar doors open, highlighted the filthy state of our two-seaters, which appeared not to have been washed for ages. So both DMX and BVB were extracted from the hangar and given a very thorough wash - with some technical fine tuning undertaken to the latter supervised by our senior engineer, John Bolt. Also in the hangar was the ex-Perranporth winch, which is the ongoing target of some TLC by some of our dedicated club members.
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| Mike taking a breather from washing gliders while Steve looks on (supervises?). |
I won't list everyone's names, but conclude by saying that it was encouraging on such a foul day to see such a dedicated group of members demonstrating commitment to the club - and having fun in the process.
Bob Pirie
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