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Date:03/06/2003
Location:Nr Innsbruck, Austria
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Oakley airfield

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
