Originally Posted by
1.3VStall
Meanwhile,
Down at Membury, home of Southern Sailplanes, expansion continues. New tractors and gang mowing machines have been procured, the strip has been levelled and extended and there is now talk of a new-build hangar.
Who is funding this burgeoning business empire? We are, of course: the taxpayers. With over 20 gliders now returned to the Air Cadets, at over £100k per airframe, and more that 20 more to go through, Southern Sailplanes are laughing all the way to the bank!
You couldn't script it!
1.3vs has a talent for exaggerating that would clearly find him a new job writing for one of the tabloid newspapers, a thirty year old tractor and mower is replaced by one ( almost ) new machine, the grass Runway is re-aligned due to the solar farm being built on the site, the strip being levelled by a roller towed behind the ( almost )new tractor.
“You couldn’t script it “ says 1.3vs, not people would not even bother to script normal day to day business but it now doubt makes good conversation in the gliding club cafe when low cloud brings in those who gather around a single cup of tea with six straws.