What is it about the 14th?
What is it about the 14th? May 14th was good, though most of us failed to see it coming. June was brilliant, see a previous blog item. July 14th was brilliant too. EVERY launch led to a soaring flight (OK apart from the check flights). Richard Barber got his 5hrs, Steve Barber (no relation) went round the Salisbury Plain danger areas and had time and inclination to top it up to 225km by also visiting Lasham and Didcot. Chris went up country but was snookered by the cloud spilling over from the Low in the North Sea, so came home again, and the Janus made a pitstop at Bicester. We also had an unscheduled pitstop by a Dunstable visitor whose turbo wouldn't start - he got it fixed and took a relight to motor back home. Other folks enjoyed local(ish) soaring, for several hours in several cases. Total time 44hrs off 26 launches, average flight 1hr 45min (excluding the short check flights)
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The most hours flown on one day (well, since my records start in October 2007) was 47:26 of 33 launches. That was on 14th June 2009.
ReplyDeleteSpooky eh!
From the Newbury Weekly News for that week:-
ReplyDeleteSixty members of the Newbury and District Agricultural Society and their guests gathered at Ham last Thursday for the annual farm walk.
The party split into two and , while one group toured Doves and Moordowns Farms, the other visited Doves Farm Mill, before reciproacating. Michael and Claire Marriage showed visitors the mill facilities and the growing crops, including einkorn and spelt wheats, while Ringo Hine described his farm diversifications including a gliding club.