For those that couldn’t make yesterday what a day to miss!!
We arrived at the airfield to find 6 – 8 inches of snow, Del Kitcher immediately got his car stuck requiring Gav and Brian’s recovery services, it was quite a challenge to all just getting cars to the hangar!
A tractor was borrowed!! this was the only way we were going to get winch and caravan set up and the Sedbergh and Prefect gingerly towed out. Everybody enjoyed some fantastic views of snow bound Wiltshire with 35 launches in all. Gav and Will both converted to the Prefect. Many launches involved snowballing the winch or launch point, no danger of any of us being called up for precision bombing for the RAF, the nearest snow ball was about 100′ from target! The fun didn’t stop with the gliding, what with Ben and Thomas Paynes sledging exploits and we had a tough job prising Andy Trickey out of Brut on cable retrieve, I think the comment was ‘once a staff cadet – always a staff cadet’ !!!
