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New Airspace Agreement

A new letter of agreement (LOA) between Newcastle Airport and the BGA covering crossing a section of P18 near Newcastle airport has been published. More details are on the BGA website. Note the minimum requirements.

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Siver, Bronze and a new BI

Its been a busy time for members with John Brown completing his two hour flight, Tom Farquar and Dave Key completing five hour flights and Steve Marriott achieving his Siver badge with a distance flight (100k triangle Milfield-Charterhall-Rothbury-y-Milfield) , the old gits triangle! and also the 100k endorsement.

Well done also to Geoff Forster who recently became our newest BI.

Dave and Steve seen here with Colin Sword who validated their claims.
     

The Royal Aero Club Trust  - 2010 Bursaries 

Eight glider pilots have been named as recipients of Royal Aero Club Trust Flying for Youth bursaries. Congratulations to Tony Sales from Borders Gliding Club who was one of the lucky 8.

More information on the 2010 recipients and application forms for 2011 can be found at:

http://www.royalaeroclubtrust.org/index.html

  
RAEC Bursaries
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Tony's first flight in the club Pirat
Tony Sales first Pirat Solo
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   Silver Steve

Congratulations to Steve Rae for completing his Silver on Sunday with a flight of over 100k around the borders in the club Astir.  Due to the 1% rule he just missed out on his 100k Diploma but had a memorable flight on a difficult day.

Andy Bardgett and Jules Sutton ventured as far as they could before being restricted by thick cloud.
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2009 Service of Remembrance

Our 2009 Service of Remembrance was held at 11am on Wednesday 11th November,

"In memory of the airmen who lost their lives operating from RAF Milfield during WWII"

The event was organised by President Jimmy Hogarth and George Brown - with the help of Ken Marston, other club members, spouses and friends. Others present included: Andy Bardgett, Ian Sim, Alan Walker, Dougie Donald, Don Newington, Ken & Rineke Sangster, Alastair & Janice Fish, Richard Abercrombie, Jimmy & Eilean Hogarth, Graham Mitchison, Freddy Moffat, Jules Sutton, Ken Marston, John Richardson and Graham Blair.

A superb buffet lunch of soup, quiche, sandwiches and cakes was prepared and served by: Eilean Hogarth, Janice Fish, Brenda Brodie and Rineke Sangster - to whom sincere thanks were given.

Representatives of the Milfield Village community were present including Brenda Brodie, village historian -Mrs Anne Telfer and Tony Finch, the Chairman of the Parish Council.

In addition to our own President and George, other RAF veterans present included Allan Edwards (Martinet Drogue Operator at Milfield 1944-46); Mrs Linda Faragher from Berwick (WAAF Transport Driver at RAF Milfield 1943-46). Mrs Jenny Aitchison WAAF Driver at Milfield was unable to attend due to illness and sent her apologies.

Guest of Honour was Canadian Air Force Captain Jason Furlong CD who drove all the way from Lincoln to represent the Canadian High Commission and Airforce. . He is a navigator in Nimrod surveillance aircraft flying with 405 Squadron from Kinloss though his home is at Lincoln. Captain Furlong said that he had leaped at the chance to represent Canadian Forces at our Service - but that he had not initially realised that so many Canadians had been trained at Milfield, nor indeed how many had died here during flight-training

  


Captain Jason Furlong C.D. (Canadian Forces Decoration) with Allan Edwards (RAF Milfield 1944-46)

Report and Photograh - Graham White
(Full story in Club Forum)
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   Gold and Silver for Club Members

Congratulations to Barry Lytolis, Helen Fraser, Tom Farquar and Graham White who all achieved Gold heights in challenging conditions this weekend.  Ken Sangster also managed to endure the cold to achieve his five hours Silver duration and Jules Sutton and Alsitair McKenzie (Burn Gliding Club) both got to 21,000 ft!
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First Solo - Tony Sales

Congratulations to Tony Sales, 16, who went solo on Saturday Oct 17th.  Robin Johnson, the duty instructor, put Tony through a series of challenges including a practice cable break before getting out and sending him off on his own.

 

  
Tony Sales
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  JR Completes his 1000th Aerotow

 Our Tugmaster, George, congratulating John Romanes on completing his 1000th aerotow. Well done John.
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Activities Week at Haydon Bridge High School

For activities week this year we decided to have one day of Ground School at Haydon Bridge High School followed by two days of flying at Milfield. George, Richard and Mark brought the K21 to Haydon Bridge on the first morning and we rigged the glider in the main school hall watched by many interested onlookers. The glider completely filled the hall and created a great visual impact which made all the hard work worth it.

After coffee we started the classroom briefings which covered health and safety guidelines and basic principles of flight which left the students eager to learn more in the air at Milfield.  

Fortunately the weather was kind and we started flying in the morning with everyone making excellent progress. Tractor driving was also on the agenda and proved very popular. We ended the first day with a fish and chip supper whilst testing out newly learned skills on the gliding simulator.

The second day was also very good weather-wise and students were now doing parts of the aero tow very well.

 

  

All of the pictures and videos taken during the course were used the next day by the students to produce an excellent short video which captured all aspects of their gliding experience. This was expertly produced by Crispin Agar.

All in all, a great three days.  
 
K I Latty  (Chief Flying Instructor)
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