When the old website was retired, everything on it came with us: the logged flights, the diary write-ups people wrote about their day, and the photographs that went with them. None of it sits in a box marked “archive” — the flights are in the logbook and count towards the club records, the write-ups are in the diary, and the photographs are in the gallery alongside this season’s.
What’s in it
The gallery, and adding to it
The albums start in 1971, scanned from the club’s own collection, and members have been adding to them ever since. Each site guide carries that hill’s own photographs at the foot of the page.
Members can put pictures up themselves — twenty at a time, drag and drop, and it is worth writing a caption while you still remember who is in the shot. You can tag people, tag yourself, and take a tag off again whenever you like. Bear in mind that the gallery pages are public.
Windsock
Every issue of the club magazine since 1974. Committee minutes and site politics, yes, but also the flying: who went where, on what, and what went wrong.
And the story behind it
The club was formed in 1974, and three of the people who were there — Johnny Carr, Mark Woodhams and Ian Grayland — wrote down what those first years were like: building gliders in a Brighton factory, and flying them off the Downs.