Expedition reports, cross-country flight achievements, cadet milestones, and airfield updates from Gransden Lodge Airfield.
We are celebrating International Women's Day by featuring the stories, gliding journeys, and achievements of women pilots at the Cambridge Gliding Centre and the Cambridge University Gliding Club. We hope these stories will inspire more girls and women to take up gliding and discover the many pleasures and challenges of flying. Jo Brand – CGC … Read more "International Women's Day 2026"
Cambridge is a place fond of traditions and, as a result, we could not help but engage in our annual tradition of gathering some CUGC members and an instructor and shipping them up north for ridge and wave soaring, as well as extensive canopy de-misting. December found a group of us packing our blankets and … Read more "December 2025 CUGC Expedition to Sutton Bank"
I had experienced a little gliding with the air cadets, so after university I joined CGC. In 2022 I went solo, qualified, and made my first 300km flights. Last year I acquired my highly underrated DG-300 glider and flew in my first competitions, including the Junior Nationals held here at Cambridge. This year I … Read more "Charlie and James"
Bluebell was our mainstay for instructing for many years, after she was supplied new in 1950 to Cambridge University Gliding Club (now Cambridge Gliding Club). (New price £587.0s.0d). She has racked up nearly 80000 (yes eighty thousand!) launches and something like 10500 flying hours. Since then, she has had various periods of little or no … Read more "Bluebell flies again"
