Mary sent me an e-mail about Saturday's flying and asked me to edit the details suitably and post here ... I've edited unsuitably but by all reports this is roughly what happened on Saturday.
Mary brought a neighbour and his friend, and his 7 year old boy to fly - arrived at 8 am and got out the kit, thereby acquiring merit, so they got to fly before the rush really got going. She then made a list of winch drivers, which "nearly worked" ... and ran around as LPC after 1. Tez Bowler got checked out by Paul Noonan to fly the Astir, and Paul flew with Joe Bowler (they had nearly an hour) and Joe was very chuffed. He did sterling work on the bus computer, nearly the whole day. Tez also learned to drive the winch. Mary ran out of steam at 6 and went home, after a 10 minute flight with Paul Noonan. (NOTE: the tone of her original e-mail in no way indicates that running out of steam was as a result of the said 10 minute flight.) although she did add, and I quote "very enjoyable, but didn't get as high as with you, darling!" (NOTE 2: no drugs were taken.) John Donovan flew with a group of hearing impaired pilots who meet and fly at different clubs around the UK. Tim Donovan was there and looked younger than ever, so his stay in the JR Hotel fixed him up OK. Good to see him back.
Winch drivers on Saturday included Paul Duffy, Roger Tyrrel, Paul Fletcher, Andy Linfield, Dave LeMaistre, John Luisada, and Robin Jackson. Thanks to all who kept us going for a very good day.
Pilots who went cross country included Graham Paul, Dave Smith with Russell Dyer, Bob Playle, and Paul Mucha who landed out half way to Cirencester, down the Fosse Way. A volunteer crew went to retrieve Paul ...
If you would care to post these notes on the flying reports for Saturday, that would be good ... suitably edited, of course.
Mary
Sadly there are no photo's on record to substantiate any of this ...
BREAKING NEWS (not included earlier)! Lucy had taken over Keith's half
of K6 DNA (which she has spent the last few weeks fettling into shape)
and on her second flight she achieved silver height.