Barry
McCarthy and I arrived at the field to find that
Tony Sorensen had already transferred all the
necessary material to the pie cart.
However
the sky was looking less and less inviting.
So
instead of standing around looking miserable we took
a trip down to our now pegged out hanger site to
find bulldozers dumping soil from the adjacent
factory site.
Good
news - we can use it (both the good news and the
soil).
Back
to the gliding, members drifted in, the sky looked
more promising and we located to RWY12.
The
flying started with Kevin Dobbie doing a
training flight with Tony Sorensen in the Blanik and
Ken Mitchell a solo in the 28 ... both logging
29mins which proved to be the day’s longest.
Every
other flight was below 18 mins
Tony
introduced one of Neil Schaefer’s power friends
Chris Moroney to gliding, Bob Hainsworth and Charles
Hoch kept the seats of the 28 warm for a very short
period and Barry and I twice fell out the sky from
near 3000 ft for a gross 29min and Neil decided that
flying the Blanik was better than walking back to
06.
