BORDERS (Mllfleld)This last month brought a spate 01 Silver legswith AI'astair Fish and Alastsir SCOtt completinglheirSilver Cs. li(ath Booth literally scrapeda Bronze leg, spending most 01 her 1hr flight ataround 700ft.We continue to grow In size now that the tughas given us a new lease of lile. There arerumblings about a club glass single-seateralthough our /-21 and Tutor are still for sale.F,W.,Dove Crinson and Bill Stephens wasl /he winch they have' just completed for Bristol & Gloucestershire Gc.They were presented with the silver mugs ,hey are '
ollered by visiting instructors, to K'eith MacKay, our country member instrijctor, and DerekYoung who has taken over lhe additionaladministrative work.The. club fleet, refurbished and recovered, islooking trim for the tourist season. Recent clubnights with wives at a Oban hotell are provingpopular.Congratulations to Johl1l McGilvray on hisSilver C and to Mike Gregory, Gus MclaughUn, Aiel( Fleming and Bany Ken on going solo.M.G.R.CORNISH (Trevallas Airfield)Members enjoyed very good flying at theCuldrose GC task week. Doug Snape andKen Reid gained Silver heights in cloUd:during April.George Collins has resigned as al1l instructorafter many years, having previously .givenup the CFl's job, and Don McWilJen-Wrighthas resigned as a course instructor due tobusiness commitments.The Motor Falke is :back after repairs andhas a new three yea,r Col A. A Rallye tug hasbeen bought by 25 members and we are lookingforward to its aerotows this summer.Smon Jordy obtained his PPLMG licence atEnstone.We enjoyed a week's flying at Lasham(weather awful) and thank Ray Pentecost forhis help.M.J.D.COTSWOLD (Aston Down)"Tim's task week", as it is known, was a disappointmentdue to the weather and KenLloyd did well to win in marginal conditions.We hosted the Rockpolishers for the Inter<strong>Club</strong> League on June 4-5 when Usk won allthree Classes and we were placed secondoverall.Nick Jones gained his duration and Goldheight in wave during a visit to Portmoak. FlosHoward missed soloing on her 16th birthdaydue to the weather but was successful the followingweekend. Congratulations also toAdrian Snow, Mike Roberts and LindaCaruthers on going solo.P.K.ceVENTRV (Husbands Bosworth)Despite the rain the season has been successfulso far with 4000 cross-countrykilometres flown, including eight 300km triangles,during the Easter week.We hadl splendid weather for our openweekend when there were 200 air experienceflights. A lot of Interest was shown in thecourses and several new members wereenrolled.The ASW-19 is back after its recent mishap,together with Our <strong>No</strong>. 4 Bocian which has beenrefurbished. We take delivery of a fifth Bociansoon and our club fleet also includes two K-Ss,a SF-27 and an ASW-19. Frank Golding isnow resident engineer to maintain our Chipmunk.COngratulations to Ray Bains, Pete Cliff andBruee Hook on going solo; to Alan Fretwelland Chris Rodwell on their assistant rating; toOerek Abbey on achieving 306km on his secondflight in an SB-5 for another Diamond andto complete Gold C and to Gary Wills onbecoming a full Cat.Steve Grublys, on holiday from South Africawhere he emigrated last year, made a wel-<strong>Aug</strong>ust/<strong>Sept</strong>ember 1983Coventry GC's new winch.come return visit. He commented that glidingin SA was quite boring since 10 ooOft wasgained with little effort whereas on this holidayit took considerable skill to rise from 1500 to1800It in 3Omin.N.B.CRANFJEtO (Cranfleld Alrfletd)We had our first visitor of the year on EasterSunday, Mike Bird in the Caproni, and: havehosted visitors trom Upwood and Hus Boswho for one reason or another couldn'l fly attheir home field.At the AGM Harry Purser was presentedwith, the Silene trophy for the second consecu·tive year and a special prese(ltation was madeto our CFI, Derek Wi!cox, lor 26yrs of continuousworry on our behalf.The airfield is now open seven. days a weekwith glider circuits using the north side. Fortunatelywe have a gliding ,orientated ATC uniton the airfield. If in doubt give. them a ring on02<strong>34</strong>752761.Our courses are being well supported by thepublic with all places filled.I).P.S.DEESIDE (Aboyne Airfield)The resident depression over England dlUringthe spring meant easterly w·inds in Scotland,bringing dull, cold weather for weeks on end.On the few occasions when the wind was westerly,Aboyne lived up to its more usual reputation.A <strong>34</strong>0km triangle was flown, with 27 OOOltjust for fun after completing, the task. Jo Murrayflew the first wave Silver distance for somewhile, landing on top of a hill to beat the 1%rule to complete her all-wave Silver C In some35hrs.Spring courses were hard work and"Chalky" White, our new eFl, started ott as heintends to continue, introducing, amongstother innovations, new parkingrestrictioQs.Anyone know where we can get a yellow bandfor his hat?K.A.H.DERBV & LANCS (Camphill)The season got oH to an excellent start with a"John Willie Week", John's skills andenthusiasm made a lasting impression oneveryone involved. In May there was anexpedition to Fayence - the nearest glidingsite to St Tropez - by nine pilots and theirfamilies. They flew K-6s, K-13S, Astirs andASW between the Cote d'Azur and the AlpsMaritime and found it difficult to believe300km tasks were commonplace. A 700kmtriangle and 7500m I;,eight gain were flown bylocal pilots while they were there.Our hangar improvements are now C0mpleteand ,the south-west corner of the field islooking greener since it was smoothed oul byseemingly continuous rotovation last year. Weare hosting visits from Lasham and Altair laterin the season and welcome inqUiries ·from anyother clubs wanting to experience an outstandinghill site with comprehensive facilities andacoommodation.P.L.R.DEVON & SOMERSET (<strong>No</strong>rth Hili)Our club diary reflects the generally poorweather since Christmas - nothing of significance.Ken Lopez and Geotl Pinn have gone soloand Justin Wills flew his LS-4 home trom anEaster visit when local conditions were verymediocre.Our task week has just started and fortunatelyreturned to service is one hard-workedand long-suffering K-13 after a launch failure.Even more fortunate is the PI who has thankfUllyrecovered from back injuries.A welcome return of "<strong>No</strong>rth Hill News", ouroccasional broadsheet, owes much to GordonPeters and more to his staff of voluntoer reporters,editors and printers. Also welcome was avisit by the LS-4 demonstrator.Joining our long distance elite, as occasionpermits, is Tom Zealley, BGA chairman, who,with his ASW-20, will provide good companyfor our pilots roaming DG-100, Mosquito andLibelle pilots.I.D.K.DORSET (Old Sarum)Our thanks to Jim Linnegar and Pam Weymanfor organising our annual dinner-dance in Aprilwhich was well attended.There were committee changes at the AGMin May with 'cennis Neat handing over as secretaryto Jim Linnegar after many years ofsterling service. Congratulations to KenPhipps and NOlman Eyres on receiving honorarymemberships for many years' service.We now have an almost exclusively "K"fleet with a K-13, K-7, K·8 and K-6, plus ourSky 4 recently back from repair. The T-21 hasbeen sold: and ,leaves behind many fondmemories.Congratulations to JiII Burry and Phil Morelandon going sob and converting to the K-8;to Neil Davidson and Gerald Dale on theirSronze Cs and to Dave Sampson for Diamondheight at Aboyne on April 14.The limited aerotow facility which we startedin May has already brought back some rarelyseen, club members with un-winchable hotships and the indemnity required to fly at OldSarum has now been settled at half a millionpounds.Last season was another record year (the ,most launches since 1973) with a satisfyingnumber of members rejoining and a goodinflux of new ones.C.A.w.ENSTONE EAGLES (Enstone Airfield)The rather poor start to the season hasaffected the leak In the clubhouse roof asmuch as the gliding! A couple of good soaringdays, however, enabled Geoff Haig to gain181
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