Have you ever pondered why we continually brave the elements at weekends (enduring hot, dry summer days as well as cold, wet and windy winter days) to continually put harmonious family relationships at risk by heading to the airfield to take a flight in a glider?  

The following article from a recent issue of "New Scientist" (found on a coffee table while filling in time in a medical waiting room) provides a basic and brief but interesting insight as to our primal human desire to fly ...  

So perhaps it was our upright stance and sense of balance that made us so susceptible to the well known psychiatric affliction that Rod Elsworth referred to below ... 

From: Rod Elsworth
Date: Sat, Jun 11, 2011
Subject: No flying Sunday
To: cgclist@glidingcaboolture.org.au

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