Originally Posted by
Dan Winterland
Glider retrieves are good materiel for anecdotes. The one that springs to mind is the retrieve crew who found another glider of the same type in the trailer. Why they didn't notice the weight when they hitched it up I don't know.
You could write a very funny book about gliding retrieves. My entries would include landing
out in the next field to the club on my 'cross country landing check'. Landing in one of those little fields with low stone walls in Derbyshire which had sheep in it till I opened the brakes (in an Olympia - sounded like a Stuka) - the farmer said he was
sure he had put his sheep in that field! Landing in a paddock behind a big house which happened to be owned by the MD of JCB - it was a hot day and his wife leaned over the fence and asked if I would like a cup of tea. And the time in Yorkshire when I landed in a lovely field behind a house on a road (telephone no doubt available), to be met by a party of well dressed young folk celebrating a 21st - and I was invited to the party. When my retrieve eventually arrived, they said I was clearly feeling no pain at all, and snored all the way back to the club. I had a monumental hangover.