Before crossing the Thames Estuary
A 600km flight from the Bristol & Gloucestershire Gliding Club, anticlockwise around London
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Date: 01/07/2011
Location: Sheerness, the Isle of Sheppey
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Preparing for take-off, the first cumulus of the day
Grid at gliding comp
Tugs waiting to launch the grid at a gliding comp
Glider being towed at the start of its takeoff
Self-launching glider takes to the sky on a fine cross-country day
Cranfield Airport
Drains & patchwork fields
More patchwork fields
Looking south to a convergence over the Toledo mountains
High over the Gredos mountains
Ridge-running the Malverns
Trough of showers approaches
Oakley airfield
Looking down on Bala after a cloud climb
RAF Lakenheath
River Trent meets River Humber
Sharing a thermal overhead the Buckminster Gliding Club
Looking down on Colchester
Across the Solent to the Isle of Wight
approaching the south coast of the island, the Needles in the background
Looking East from the turnpoint
The turnpoint: the lighthouse at St Catherine's Point
Flying along the south coast
Before crossing the Thames Estuary
Southend Airport
At The Wash
At The Wash
Northbound towards Mablethorpe
Arriving at the Black Mountains, on a 400km flight
Cheltenham Racecourse
Gliding towards the Long Mynd
Winter hill soaring
The flight line at New Tempe
Looking back towards New Tempe
A shower kicking up dust
Tow out gear
An isolated shower
Tiptoeing around a storm
Final glide into New Tempe
Field landing
Cader Idris
Cader Idris
Sandbanks in the estuary
On the South Downs ridge
Radio masts on the ridge
Gliding the ridges in Autumn
Climbing out of Portmoak on a calm day
Mountain view
Foothills
The bonnie bonnie banks of....
Foothills
Heavy industry, Scunthorpe, on the way to the Humber from Dunstable.
Hill fort
Arriving at the Humber Bridge before turning for home
Sea breeze on the South Coast
What a great day for flying!
Clear of cloud
The Black Mountains, late afternoon
Over Wurzburg city centre
Flying the Inn Valley
York Minster
Looking up the wing in a left hand turn
