A Miscellany of Gliding Pictures

The following photographs were provided by Mike Richardson


First 300k's in the Bag		Waiting to go		Early Season Sky

Deeside Sunset			Ready to go

Henley on Thames	Wycombe from 3000'		Home Base		Amongst the clouds

Just a dash of snow	Sprinkling of snow		Deeside Sunrise		April Showers

Don't forget the canopy, Hugh		Busy Day at Booker		Sepia 18

The following photographs were provided by Mike Collett and relate to the Aboyne expedition of 2006

The following photographs taken in 2008 were provided by Brenda Harvey


A monument to Booker's past

The following pictures were taken in April 08

The club house Click here to see a slideshow of the inside of the clubhouse then hit the 'Back' button to return here			The launch point vehicle

K21 during the aerobatic competition More of Brenda's pictures of the event here

K21 launch and landing			K 18 awaits takeoff

The following pictures were taken on 1 June 08


Graham Saw's vintage Czech Lunak glider 'czech mate' The 2 prototypes were built in 1948 and the production Lunaks built in 1950

Gerry Leech about to launch a trial flight K13	K 13 landing on a dismal June day	Mike Richardson landing the Robin		Proud father to be (in more ways than one) - having completed his trial flight

Above and below - one of the club's K21s


The following pictures were taken on 8 June 08


	Jerry Leech taking a person on a trial flight in the Duo Discus

Graham Saw's vintage Czech Lunak glider 'czech mate'		Mike Richardson's desire after flying the Lunak		Mike Collett talks to Bob Davey before flying the Lunak

	Mike takes off

Andy Baker and Don Harvey	Mike Richardson, Doug Hilton and Graham Saw	Dr Nick Newton.		Nick Newton and Graham Saw

	Duo-Discus landing after trial flight	K21 landing after trial flight



Members returning at the completion of task flights


Graham Saw, Emily Todd and Mike Collett	Emily Todd (thinks - how did Mike Collett get in here so easily?)			"OK- I'm in, but will I get out?"


The following pictures were taken on the weekend of the 28-29 June 08

This weekend was meant to be a rally for the vintage gliders, but it turned out to be far too windy for all but two gliders - see below.


Trial Flights





Air Tows

Due to the strong winds only two of the vintage gliders were rigged. One was the Lunak shown above, the other was the Jaskolka.


This is a Polish Jaskolka glider, made by SZD. It was designed about 1950-51 and amazingly has some glass fibre mouldings for the fuselage to wing curved bits although most of the structure is wood. It must have been one of the highest performance gliders in its day.

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