Junior World Gliding Champion visits Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club
On Saturday 18th January, Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club were honoured to host Jake Brattle, Junior World Gliding Champion and Finn Sleigh, Junior World Gliding Silver Medalist, for a winter lecture on Cross Country gliding theory and technique. Besides delivering a highly interesting and motivating session on flying faster in your glider Jake and Finn […]
John Bone’s visit and presentation
Presentation to John Bone Friday 28th September 2018 Paul Foulger, Vice President, welcomed John and his family back to the club, after his recent absence. John had a flight with Angus Macdonald where he flew the glider, and showed that he had not lost his handling techniques. PF reiterated that it was good to see […]
Well done Teddy!
Yet another Junior achievement with Teddy Nebel being sent solo by Paul Rice yesterday.
Millie goes solo!
Congratulations to Millie who was sent solo by Richard last Sunday.
Can you still remember the days when the weather wasn’t quite flyable?
In short there were many days where the weather stopped us flying. But that doesn’t stop people from coming to the gliding club as there is always something do to. Here is the crowd from Friday 6th of April doing some good work.
And the winners are
At this years Annual General Meeting: (Left to wright) Malcom “Brad” Bradford won the Members Cup for his hard work and contribution to maintaining the winch cables and overseeing the new grass cutter Les Jordan (not pictured) was awarded the Instructor’s Cup. Richard Hayhoe won the Newberry Cup. Chris Price who presented the trophies. Paul […]
Joy going solo on Friday
Joy Chen was sent solo by John Bone on Friday 17th of November.
George goes solo!
Congratulations to George Lee who was sent solo today by Den Heslop.
Proud to Support Essex & Herts Air Ambulance
Essex & Suffolk Gliding club is proud to support the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance. This year we raised £616.62 as a donation from our very successful Open Weekend in June. We received the Certificate of Recognition (pictured) from our colleagues at the Air Ambulance which is based at Earls Colne Airfield just a few […]
Lawn mowing on a different scale
Here is Brad with our new mower. This is slightly different to your average back garden. More than 40 acres of our runway need mowing on a very regular basis. Mind you the mower is also not what you use on the grass next to your house. This is a Ransom mower and its cut […]
Double rainbow
There was a beautiful side to all the rain we had.