It's all going really rather well so far.
A civilized start on Saturday morning for a 1000 Delta flight from Heathrow to Rochester and we arrived at 1800 local time. The outstanding star of the entire entreprise is Andrew Ainslie who is lending us his ASG29 and his van to drive from Webster, New York State, to Orlando Florida for the Sailplane Grand Prix. What a testament to the kindness of strangers - a post for help on the r.a.s. website put me in touch with Andrew who could not have been more kind and helpful. Andrew was even generous enough to collect us from the airport and put us up for the night in his beautiful house on the shore of Lake Ontario. He and his wife, Teri, and 3 legged dog Ginny were model hosts and tolerated a pair of jetlagged Brits for dinner, even raiding the basement wine cellar for some rather splendid Rioja.
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| What a view from a house! |
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| Check out that numberplate - very apt |
Sunday morning we followed Andrew down to Harris Hill and the National Soaring museum where his trailer is wintered. A check of all the kit, a briefing on how it all works and we were ready to go - almost taking a stowaway Ginny who had hidden herself in the back of the van. Midday and we were off on the 1250 mile drive to Orlando. The rig tows really well: nice and stable and the Interstate cruising is good. We're overnighting just North of Richmond and planning to get to Pierson Monday evening, ready for a checkflight and the necessary formalities needed to finish off getting a U.S. glider pilot licence.
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| Ginny the apprentice stowaway |
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| Checking out the 29 |
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| Victor Whisky: Ready to rock and roll and swap snow for sunshine |
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