Bluebell – Cambridge Gliding Centre

Look at Life Vol 01 Transport Sailing the Sky 1959

by SimonUncategorized 4 April 20246 April 2024No Comments

Comments from Andrew Hulme: “I have a vague recollection that the filming was somehow organised by Alex,but why I am not sure, given his occupation as a barrister for HMRC andgiven I was only 14 or so at the time. The winch was the Brute, (ex military Canadian Ford) . Note the Cambridgeregistration JER 188 …

Bluebell flies again

by userFleet 8 June 202319 March 2024No Comments

Bluebell was our mainstay for instructing for many years, after she was supplied new in 1950 to Cambridge University Gliding Club (now Cambridge Gliding Club). (New price £587.0s.0d). She has racked up nearly 80000 (yes eighty thousand!) launches and something like 10500 flying hours. Since then, she has had various periods of little or no …