Gliding 1950 - Lakes Gliding Club

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Retrieves-Various by K. E. Machin ow I don't want you to get the N impression from what follows that everyone of OUI <strong>Club</strong> retrieves is a shambles. On the contrary, over 5% of them go according to plan. Still, it's the flying that really matters, and if every retrieve went off without incident. we should lose half the fun of gliding, and we should never have the chance to tell those wonderful and complicated stories which usually start off: "Do you remember the time th~~ John took the telephone message, and ... Of course, on the most chaotic retrieve of them all, John swears to this day that it was the telephone girl at the aerodrome who succeeded in getting into the message the names of two places, ~en miles apart. Anyhow, there we were at one of them, at midnight (why is it that we always seem to reach the landing place at midnight, regardless of the time we set out?), rushing madly round the aerodrome, or, to be more accurate, three-quart
organiscd, was told in a very firm tone: "This retrieve is organised. I've got it all under contro!." Three hours later, after turning right instead of left near the end of the jOllmey, we fQtJl\d the aircraft. The same somebody said "Er-David·-the
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