Saturday 9th August

A brilliant day here at Shenington. The launch point was buzzing with activity. Some of the Kent visitors stayed on to fly today, with congratulations going to Chris Parsons, who successfully completed his 50km to Sackville Farm. Congratulations were also in order to some of the Kent visitors earlier in the week, namely Ian Russell for completing a 300km and Mike Worthington for also doing 50km to Sackville.

Alistair and Norman were flying their K6e, 'Ruby,' Nigel was also flying his K6 and Charles and I flew DNW, It was great to have so many K6s flying on the same day.

John Donovan set of on a task towards St Neots, having made the turn point, he had to fly via Kettering and Northampton to make it back, avoiding a large blue hole.

Smiling launch point helpers!

Charles about to fly DNW

Interesting sky over the airfield!

The club K13s and K21 were busy with two day courses, as well as trial lessons. Tim had two friends visiting, Zoltan and Balasz, both tug pilots from Husbands Bosworth, Zoltan flying his Kestrel 17 for several hours!

The tug was kept very busy all day with 9 aerotows and an aerotow retrieve to Sackville.

Thanks to the duty crew and everyone who helped to make today such a success with a total of 49 launches and some very long flights.

The day ended with a superb meal, as always, prepared by Liz for 25 people! Thank you.