The forecast gave a sunny mostly blue sky day with a strengthening, gusty south, south east wind. This and the fact that the day started with low cloud and mist kept a lot of the Saturday regulars away.
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| Stefi polishing a canopy repair. Don looks on |
Undeterred Don Puttock arranged a canopy sanding and polishing workshop with Mike Gadd and Stefi Guiu. They were working on the couple of repairs to the 2 seater canopies. This is starting to show real promise. Well done and thank you.
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| Visitor Heidi Mayroher gets some family support while waiting to fly |
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| Visitor John Hayward finally managed to fly after several earlier bookings were scuppered by the weather. |
Eventually we had enough members to fly and spurred on by the arrival of a couple of visitors, the newly repaired ML winch was positioned at the east end. This did not perform as we had hoped but Don coped well with the somewhat erratic launching and we managed to put together a flying programme to fly the e air experience visitors, David Parker's family visitors and let Stefi Guiu and Mike Jardine to test their skills against the lively approaches.
David Parker's family visitors.
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| Canadian glider pilot Zak Morgan |
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| Amanda Parker |
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| Mana Longmire |
While we were flying the committee held a meeting in the clubhouse but even this could not generate a thermal to increase Don's entertainment.
So, the day turned out well considering the trials and tribulations and ended in traditional fashion in the clubhouse. Ray, the diesel fitter, will be back on Wednesday to adjust the ML winch.
Steve
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