Glider landing
| Janet Jeffs |
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Sun 29 May 2022, 15:37 See Judy Dod's entry re History of Charlbury in January this year, with the story of Edwin Glasgow's grandson, as an advert for a Charlbury Society talk. |
| Graham Wisker |
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Sun 29 May 2022, 13:04 Yes Tim, According to the records a Hotspur II, BT793 did crash in Charlbury on the 17th August 1942. |
| Philip Ambrose |
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Sat 28 May 2022, 19:24 There used to be good thermals from Didcot power station, there are none to be had from Southill Solar Farm! |
| Miles Walkden |
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Sat 28 May 2022, 18:06 My daughter and I watched it come down. Kudos to the pilot who landed it with aplomb, despite it being rough ground and uphill! |
| Tim Gosling |
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Sat 28 May 2022, 17:52 (last edited on Sat 28 May 2022, 17:54) I see that a large glider has landed in a field off Banbury Hill. Pilot seems ok as he is wandering around. Just ran out of thermals i suppose. Didn't a Hotspur glider crash in Hixet wood in the 1940's. Is two in 80 years a trend? |
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