Ref JW411's posting on 6th Sept regarding glider aerobatics and Doug Bridson. We Boy entrants at St Athan thought that he was a real hero. I remember trying to concentrate on parade ground drill practice while he was overhead flying a Chipmunk and hovering it into wind.
He gave me my first glider flight at St Athan in 1956, my next was in 1968 after I learnt that defective colour vision was not a barrier to flying. I have clocked up around 7500 launches and 4500 hours gliding plus a few hundred hours power
since, I am still gliding, still enjoying it and still learning.
Does anyone else have memories of Doug and what happened to him? I am sure that there could be enough to write an entertaining book
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