On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:48:11 GMT, Charles Yeates
wrote:


This meant that selected air force personnel had to derig and trailer
the glider. We were escorted by the military all the way to the Can/US
border to make sure we crossed.

Sounds familiar.
When my club (in Germany) hosted the European Club Class championchips
back in 1991 (with the iron curtain having fallen down only half a
year ago), a fellow russian pilot managed to perform an outlanding on
the runway of Heidelberg AFB - which is the airfield of the strictly
guarded European US forces headquaters.

Imagine that: A russian aircraft with CCCP registration on one of the
most heavily guarded US places of the world.
Even worse, the pilot had forgotten his papers (license et al.) and
spoke only Russian.

I heard it was a lot of fun to get him out of this airfield - he
arrived back at 7 AM the next day. Considering that Heidelberg is only
25 miles from my club's airfield...


Bye
Andreas