The occurrences and happenings at Shalbourne Soaring Society. A gliding club near Andover, Newbury and Hungerford.

Wednesday 4th September

Another blue day which saw Alan Pettit rig half his vintage fleet, Bill Cook providing open cockpit flying for all and sundry in the T21 and Paul McGrory taking on the Vega (which won by a short head). By mid afternoon few aircraft remained on the ground apart from Trevor's Jantar which, as ever, was yet to be rigged. Steve Ottner managed to keep the LS3 airborne for a couple of hours - allegedly by stalking combine harvesters.

Spot the odd one out:


(The cat didn't pay for the launch.)


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2 comments:

  1. Stephen Ottner4 September 2013 at 23:49

    Utterly blue with lottsa sink in between the going up stuff. Not easy to get away but placing yourself downwind of a combine harvester (and there were lots of them out playing) was a sure-fire way of locating a thermal. Best height I saw was 3,900' and climb rates generally modest but I did find one cracking thermal offering 4.8 (on the average) at times.
    Of the 36 launches 6 managed half an hour or more, an additional 4 with over an hour an 2. 7 gliders rigged and 4 of the club gliders flew (Puchacz sitting it out for its 100 hour check).

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  2. Stephen Ottner4 September 2013 at 23:51

    Question: How do make sure you never pay for a launch every again?
    Answer: Get yourself a T21. There will always be a queue of people offering themselves as ballast and paying for the launch.

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