Having fully recovered from our Hippie party, our flying is now back to normal with “DoDa” landing on the front lawn of Woburn Abbey, and so emulating Bernie Keogh’s effort last year! Our friendship with Watchfield was cemented at a recent “Orgy” (return match for our Hippie thing! ) Swindon and Watchfield. Gliding Clubs challenge allcomers to beat them at bottle walking. We had Bob Cunningham visiting again (if this keeps up, he will have to become a member!). He was first observed by Bob Lucksford who had been in contact with an SHK for several minutes and having given him careful instructions on where to land, he discovered Bob Cunningham had no radio, and therefore apologises to the pilot We talked into landing …wherever it was! D. Trenchard completed his Silver C and. D. Laurence and M. Dugmore their Silver heights. Miles Dugmore did his five hours in the Swallow at the same time, winning the bottle of champagne kindly donated by Eric Winning. Richard Cole obtained his assistant instructor rating at Bicester.
