"flgliderpilot" wrote in message
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Out of curiosity, I searched but found no similar thread...

So what was your first glider, how did you find it, how long did you
fly it, did you keep it or quickly out grow it? Would love to hear
your stories...

I had a syndicate EoN Olympia 2b in 1964 when I was in the Staffordshire
Gliding Club (of which I was a founder member and Technical Officer). It was
one of the early ones - BGA 507. It had been in a crash at the Mynd and the
whole front end was new, so that most unusually for an Oly it had a Skylark
4 cockpit canopy which was a great improvement on the standard one. I did my
5hrs in it, the first ever achieved at that site (Meir near Stoke on Trent),
and my Silver height. I made several unsuccessful Distance attempts in it.
Several more Silver legs were done by other partners. I sold my share after
three years and moved on to an Olympia 463 which was a hot ship at that
time. I did a lot of cross-countries in the 463 but I found less and less
time to fly it as I had become an instructor. I liked the 2b more than the
463, which was a bit of a handful and nothing like as stable. I moved clubs,
and never owned a share after that. I actually finished my Silver in a club
K18 at Dunstable some time later.

Alistair Wright