And another candidate....
David Evans is in his eighties and still flying from Welland GC, admittedly with a safety pilot these days (at his own insistence). David passed 3000 hours in gliders earlier this summer. He has all three diamonds, and did his first 500km in an Open Cirrus in the 1970's. David was a fixture as our Wednesday instructor for many years, and sent me off in a K8 on my first cross country in 1998. Having managed to find my destination farm strip near Kings Lynn after an interesting trip in the blue, David phoned me up 2 days later to offer his congratulations before professing that when he sent off "I didn't think you had a hope in hell of getting there !". If the cumulus are popping, it's a fair bet that David's white Mercedes will roll up at the launch point, and he'll still happily operating the launch signals until it's his turn to fly. A true gent.....