Moonrakers Gliding and Soaring Club - RAFGSA

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. (UK/EU: affiliate commission may be earned on purchases made through links in this post.) Carrying Passengers in a T21. On 4 August 1963 John Williamson signed me off as fit to carry passenger in the T21. As this meant sitting in the left hand seat, it meant using the left hand for the stick and right hand for the spoilers. As in all other gliders it was the opposite hand, it took some getting used too. I was helped a lot as at the time I was in the process of getting my PPL flying Austers at Wolverhampton, and in the Auster it was Left  hand seat flying so I had got used to it. Later that day I took my first passenger, a Mr Hicks, the second was a Mrs White so indicates my log book, both 4 minute circuits. The next day (Sunday 5th August) another 16 passenger flights, all short with one exception of 17 mins thanks to the cook house therma...

This is the Club membership Card on which was recorded the aircraft one was permitted to fly, and other club tasks that one was checked out to perform. The aircraft in the fleet at that time were; Tutor, Grunau, Olympia 2 and Olympia 419. The training aircraft were a T31 and T21. We also had an occasional tug which was a Chipmunk.