Saturday 6th April dawned sunny and bright, if rather colder than is normal for this time of year. As the thermals started it was clear that one or two people were prepared for a good day! The Nimbus set off early on a large task with Graham & Al Cook on board, Dave Smith went off in the Duo with Walter, who was visiting from the Mynd, and Clive S. went off in CPJ. John le Coyte turned up later and went for a flight inthe DG.
Back at Shenington, Phil Marks was in charge, and proceeded to put four of us through our paces with the APR flights - a successful day as Tess, Jon C, Bob P and Brent were all signed off for the year. Terry flew an hour, and Lucy a 2 hour flight in the K8 towards their cross country endorsements, and various soaring flights were also had by Alistair F, Bob P, Robin, Gavin, Tess & Mike C in club gliders DVX, JNA and HRJ. For a while it was almost like summer as we ran out of gliders to launch!
The motorglider and tug also did some
solo flying, and we had a visitor in a microlight - Peter Walker - who
had gone solo at Edgehill back in the 1950s when the airfield was home
to Coventry gliding club. Peter was interested to see how the airfield
had changed - particularly that the end of some of our runways had
disappeared - and brought us some clippings from the 1950s.
Gavin took these photos from JNA - note the height gained, and do
remember to take a barograph in the glider with you if you need a silver
height!
