The Open Sourcerer » Gliding http://www.theopensourcerer.com The Magic of Open Source Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:10:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 My Dad http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/08/06/my-dad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-dad http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/08/06/my-dad/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:33:50 +0000 Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/08/06/my-dad/ Yesterday (5th August 2007) I took my Dad to a field in Wiltshire somewhere between Hungerford and Andover. Not all that remarkable you might think…

It was a present to mark his 80th Birthday. We bought him a trip in a Glider. Something I recalled him saying many years ago that he would love to do.

Well. He did it, enjoyed it and didn’t seem to be phased by it at all. In fact the pilot let him take the controls for a few turns, they got up to 2500ft riding the thermals and were airborne for the best part of half an hour.

If I can do half the stuff my Dad does when I get to 80 (which I probably won’t anyway) I’ll be a very happy man.

Cheers Dad, I love you.

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An eight litre Chevvy engine has a LOT of pulling power! Here’s a video of the take-off uploaded to You Tube. And here’s the landing.

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