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Another blue day which saw Alan Pettit rig half his vintage fleet, Bill Cook providing open cockpit flying for all and sundry in the T21 and Paul McGrory taking on the Vega (which won by a short head). By mid afternoon few aircraft remained on the ground apart from Trevor’s Jantar which, as ever, was yet to be rigged. Steve Ottner managed to keep the LS3 airborne for a couple of hours – allegedly by stalking combine harvesters.

Spot the odd one out:

(The cat didn’t pay for the launch.)

The launch point at 15:00 under a clear blue sky:

Airborne and out of sight – in alphabetical order:

ASW15 (albeit on the ground somewhere near Didcot), Cirrus, Janus, Ka8, 2 X Ka13s, LS3, Nimbus and Puchacz.

Returned from a late flight in EEF to find airfield closed and SMS saying crew in pub!

Claire treated her Libelle to an outing on Monday which prompted Richard to ask if it blinked when it was pulled from its trailer still sleeping, what did he mean by that???

Well if it was sleeping it soon woken up as shortly after this photo was taken Carol and I saw it brushing against the clouds at over 4,000ft!

And now for something completely different………