Alex does the first ever buggy slope landing!

The last few days here in Keswick have been wonderful weather and we have managed to get some great flights in. John Jones, Andy Smith and Ian Jenkinson successfully completed all their CP ratings, so well done fellas, you all did some great flights and landings. Im am proud to sign you off.

Alex, our flyability top gun pilot, even graced us with his presence and had some long soaring flights with two perfect top-landings and one, spot on, spot landing. The middle part of the day wasn't quite so graceful as, while attempting to scratch in the light lift band, Alex squeezed in a turn while still flying slowly. The glider, a reliable Mojo, elegantly tried to accommodate his ambitious request, and turned 180 back into the soaring beat, but then majestically dropped slowly into a deep stall, and lowered her eager passenger gently onto the grassy slope, then selflessly put herself into the the gauze bushes, keeping the lines tight so that Alex didn't roll down the hill.

But she needn't have bothered because Alex wasn't wheeling anywhere, on doing his and flyability's first ever buggy slope landing, he broke the 40mm solid nylon

suspension leg and the stump was imbedded in the soft mossy grass. It least the leg, wheels, buggy and Mojo did a perfect job in protecting this plucky flying ace.

Joking apart, I have to say a big well done for Alex's spirit and determination, because once we go him down to the landrover, and back up to launch, we just took the other leg off and he launched again for another flight, landing perfectly without wheels. That's the barn-storming, dunkirk spirit we have come to expect from this unique airman.