The day started early with a man coming to dig holes for the new hangar. Peter Shiels turned up to assist with shoveling dirt and hosing water but they were unable to dig the holes because the ground was too hard for the machine.
We spent most of the day rigging and derigging and rigging gliders again. We managed to rig the Grob Twin two again with Garry Speight's help. Then we renewed the tape on the ailerons, measured the wing frequency and control deflections.
As soon as we had finished with the fuselage cradle, it went back into use with Garry's Twin Astir. We had to take the wings off it for Garry to do the 100 hourly inspection on it as well.
We eventually got into the air at about 1600 - John Trezise and I in the Grob. The sky looked very good although it was a cool day. Boris towed us into a thermal at about 2500 ft above ground and we were able to climb up to a good cloud street and fly straight along it in lift. We had a good soaring flight, and John handled his first flight in the Grob very well.
After landing, we helped Garry put the wings back on the the Twin Astir. It was very cool on the airfield.
John and Garry have both gone home and the place is deserted again except for the workers!
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