My Flying

I was the first to arrive at the airfield and over the course of the next hour the members arrived in dribs and drabs. No one, including myself, looked particularly in the mood for flying and this was compounded by a dead looking sky and a warm northerly… more »

Yesterday was Sunday and a normal flying day at the club and for the first time in 2½ years I just didn't feel like going. Sad really, but I just couldn't see myself doing all that work and besides the weather was not looking so great. I have been workin… more »

As today was part of the Easter Weekend long weekend no official flying was planned. I never-the-less took a drive to the airfield to again repair the loose tail-skid of the Single's, this time by applying a different and apparently better glue. When… more »

Another sad very day. I arrived at the airfield only to learn that a fellow aviator based in Uitenhage, though not a member of the gliding club, had been brutally murdered at his home in the early hours of this morning. Yet another senseless crime perpet… more »