Moonrakers Gliding and Soaring Club - RAFGSA

ref John Willi and ref; the calculator. This is the latest reference I can find for Him. T his link gave me the quote below. "Ref "John Willy" - John Williamson - I remember him well and the calculator. Back in 1966 when he was a Flt Lt at RAF Locking he taught me to fly gliders in the then "Mendips" RAF Gliding Club. Wonderful days, T21, Tutor, Prefect, Oly 2b and a Grunau 2 (with its original German markings). Rotten site though, sea breeze front used to wipe out all thermal lift."

Learning to fly, RAFGSA with the MOONRAKER Gliding Club. How did it happen? Well it was all rather simple really. It was a Sunday and I was on an Air Radar Fitters course at RAF Yatesbury in Wiltshire, England and had nothing to do. Come to the gliding club a friend said, and as he had a Jaguar Mark I, it was an invitation that could not be turned down. Thirty minutes later at about 9:30 I suppose, we were on the Airfield at RAF Upavon, a grass field high on the Wiltshire downs. It supported a couple of large hangars and there were several gliders on the grass ready to be flown. The first thing we did on our arrival was to put our names down on the flying list as this determined the order in which we would fly. That done I did not know what to do next, so I stood about watching some two seater aircraft get hitched to the winch cable and then launched. This was all rather spectacular as I had only ever seen a kite fly like these things were being launched. It is not possible ...