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Who pinched the church?’
No sign of it on the road from Tavistock. |
With the windscreen wipers beating out their rhythm and Brentor church
invisible on the approach from Tavistock, it was obvious that flying would not
be on the agenda today. So back to the whiteboard, then, with briefings on
aerotow eventualities, winch eventualities and an exploration of salutory
lessons to be found on YouTube (rope break whiplashing back around the canopy of
a K-13) which led to more leisurely viewing of a soaring lesson over Bicester
that was, as Roger Appleboom put it, “Like showing a menu to a starving man..!”
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Like showing a starving man a menu!’
Roger Appleboom avidly watching a video of summer soaring from Bicester. |
Prior to this, however, a recce team had ventured out to survey the field and
identified that the fencing contractors had left some obstructions on the
airfield. And so we scrambled our ‘Bouquet of Barbed Wire’ Recovery Squad (Roger
Allpleboom, Ed Borlase and Dave Downton) to move the 3 rolls of barbed wire to a
safer location. Simultaneously (division of labour and economy of effort being
Sunday watchwords) Rich Roberts and Pete Harvey moved the Guslaunch onto the
hardstanding ready for maintenance on Monday.
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| The Bouquet of Barbed Wire team about to mount their assault. |
Back in the clubhouse, Dene ‘Scratch’ Hitchens dropped by to show us a mod he
has been working on for his syndicate’s Astir, and Adrian Irwin called in to
announce that he was off to Australia - sampling the thermals (rumoured to reach
14kft) near Perth - for a month. It’s funny how people like to share good news
with their fellow (but groundbound) aviators, isn’t it (probably a good idea
that we can’t insert emoticons in the blog…)
Allan Holland then arrived to
assist with today’s history lesson which, bizarrely, strayed onto the Blitz in
Plymouth, the Theatre Royal, Bank pub and movements of (and beneath) Derry’s
Cross clock.
Martin Cropper
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