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“Just smile and wave boys…. smile and wave” 😎. 19th January 2020

Good evening my fellow aviators. I enjoyed my first ‘Wave Flight’ today. I’ve taken a trip up to Portmoak in the hope of finding some extended Ridge and Wave flights. Portmoak has not disappointed. The weather conditions here have not been as stellar for soaring as they can be, but there has still been an […]

Damien

At last a half sensible flying weekend. 5th January 2020

Saturday 4th Jan was notable in that we did about a dozen flights before rain stopped play. The committee met for the whole time that flying was going on, making the usual momentous decisions about our future. (Watch out for GlideAngle!) Sunday 5th: guess what! We flew again! We did about 20 flights before […]

Mike Thorne

2019 Round Up – Aerobatics 31st December 2019

Hi all, Firstly, Happy New Year! Secondly, I have made a round up video from this seasons aerobatics training and competitions, it is embedded into the site below. Feel free to check it out. Regards, Dan.

Daniel Weston

Almost a flying day! 29th December 2019

The bug is clearly alive and twitching as these weeks of wet weather and Christmas take their toll. 12 of us assembled to try to do a bit of aerotowing today, but the cloud remained obstinately low and we called it a day about lunch time. You can guess what happened next! Doug changed the […]

Mike Thorne

Wiltshire Air Ambulance Fund Raising 16th December 2019

Dear all Julie is pleased to let you know that the amount of money raised for this very worthwhile charity from donations, the raffle & the sale of club clothing comes to £343.42p. You can be well proud & we thank you most sincerely for your generosity. I have emailed Jan to circulate the list […]

John Hull

Saturday, 7th December. 7th December 2019

Turnout for a good weather Saturday was disappointing, especially given the poor forecast anticipated for Sunday. I can only assume that people were out Christmas shopping or canvassing for an election 🙁 There were only two booked pupils; the Uni students had cancelled their block booking recently ( no idea why, maybe as above, or […]

PHILG

Super Santa Supper – Saturday 30th November 1st December 2019

The annual BWND Christmas dinner took place on Saturday night in the clubhouse. With slightly fewer numbers than previous years we made best use of the additional space to spread out and fill ourselves with early Christmas cheer. A splendid spread with starters, mains and desserts all topped off with coffee and various ‘other’ beverages. […]

Chris Teasdale

Wet weekend at The Park. 24th November 2019

Saturday was a washout but today looked as if it might provide some respite. Sadly not quite. One low level launch failure demo only as the fog swept back in at 1.30. Thanks to the team for turning up. Between us we did turn over FUY in the workshop and fill in some […]

Mike Thorne

Wednesday 20th November 21st November 2019

With a breezy south easterly a few keen members braved the cold and with Mike J instructing, took advantage of some midweek instruction and crosswind practice. Plenty of hot drinks, taking launch duties in turns with warming up in the caravan and plenty of cheer we had the first launch at 11.12 after helping de-rig […]

chrischappell

Sunday 17th November 17th November 2019

We had a useful day with a small but willing team on the ground, ably managed by LPC Nick M. Initially, we had a light northerly across the strip. As always it was tricky to decide which end but I tossed the coin, expecting it to go slightly more easterly and we set the caravan […]

PHILG