Saturday Night

WooooHoooo!!............Flight on for Saturday evening from Marlborough!.....Went to collect passengers from the High Street, told by very official sounding Policeperson that the High Street was closed because of an 'INCIDENT'........could not bring himself to say there was a gas leak!!!
After herding all the passengers up and getting them on the bus, it was off to the launch site at Cleft Common Micro light airstrip.
What a lovely evening, launch was pretty smooth.....then as they ascended they went off to the West at 18kts........time to chase...fast....
Landed about 20 miles away at Keevil Airfield. Keevil is a civilian/military airfield where we have landed on many occasions..........Tonight we were not so welcome due to 'military operations' which banned any aircraft landing on Sat/Sun!!......Pilot was totally oblivious to this and landed gently to be met by a couple of guys who were obviously part of the 'operation'.....but looked and smelled like farmers......they agreed to open the gate, which was 'double padlocked!!!'.....but we had to retreave as fast as possible and NOT mention the fact that they had let us in.....so if you read this, remove from your memory, otherwise I will have to kill you!. On exit, pilot caught the gate with back of trailer and it took four people ten minutes of brute force and ignorance to straighten said gate!....so much for stealth!......silly to drive in the dark without your lights on!!!