This lead to me digging out my old 3822,
My gliding was done early 70s at Tangmere, mainly on Cadet Mk111 but a couple of launches on the Sedberge (The Barge?).
Anyone else fly from here?
Memories include:-
One instructor who had a Jag with an external sound system, he would drive down the runway with a tape of machine guns or Elephants charging.
Another instructor who would finish the day with a high speed run and then follow the taxiway at zero feet all the way back to the hangar (probably nearly a mile).
"Riding the Chute' " - sitting on the chute' at the end of the cable as it was winched in.
Accomodation during courses was at Thorney and there are also great memories of mad drives between Thorney and Tangmere in the squdron Landrovers.