Expedition reports, cross-country flight achievements, cadet milestones, and airfield updates from Gransden Lodge Airfield.
Around the summer solstice, druids and revelers gather around sacred sites, such as Stonehenge, or Cambridge Gliding Club, to celebrate the long evenings and the beautiful sunsets. We normally fly every Tuesday evening this time of year, and quite often lots of other evenings for group events or for Cambridge University pilots. If you … Read more "Peak evening event season"
Rather than edit the video as usual into a snappy minute or so, when I watched the footage back it seemed far better just to trim the ends and publish the whole ten minutes from take-off to recovery back to the launch point as the whole video gives such a lovely taste of evening flying, … Read more "Tuesday evening flying in Bluebell"
Bluebell is even older than me. She's 75 years old. I have finally had a chance to fly her! Here are some things that are different. In modern two-seat gliders, you sit one behind another (typically the instructor behind the student, but not always). In Bluebell, you sit next to one another. This is nice! … Read more "What's different about Bluebell?"
