Glider destroyed by lightning

Hi my name is Graeme Cooper, 10 years ago I was in the front seat
of the ASK21 glider that was destroyed by lightning in 1999, the
flight
was a birthday present to celebrate my 30th.

Please visit my justgiving webpage to read my story and see what I am
planning now for my 40th
http://www.justgiving.com/big40reachfortheskiesagain

Please help me to raise awareness and funds for the Parkinson's
Disease
Society by sending the above address to anyone who you think may be
interested to see it.

If you would like to make a donation that would be great too!, please
include your interest in flying i.e. BA Passenger plane pilot, Royal
Navy helicopter pilot, Heron gliding club member etc next to your
name
so that I and others can see it. It would be good to see support from
abroad!!. I am contacting all the British gliding clubs for support.
Every penny counts.
Many thanks
--
Graeme

Hi Graeme,

Great idea! I enjoyed reading the account of your flight. I think it is
wonderful that you are using the anniversary of the flight to raise
donations for a very worthy cause.

I hope you have many more wonderful glider fights.

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde

wrote in message
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Hi my name is Graeme Cooper, 10 years ago I was in the front seat
of the ASK21 glider that was destroyed by lightning in 1999, the
flight
was a birthday present to celebrate my 30th.

Please visit my justgiving webpage to read my story and see what I am
planning now for my 40th
http://www.justgiving.com/big40reachfortheskiesagain

Please help me to raise awareness and funds for the Parkinson's
Disease
Society by sending the above address to anyone who you think may be
interested to see it.

If you would like to make a donation that would be great too!, please
include your interest in flying i.e. BA Passenger plane pilot, Royal
Navy helicopter pilot, Heron gliding club member etc next to your
name
so that I and others can see it. It would be good to see support from
abroad!!. I am contacting all the British gliding clubs for support.
Every penny counts.
Many thanks
--
Graeme

On Jan 30, 1:07*pm, "Paul Remde" wrote:
Hi Graeme,

Great idea! *I enjoyed reading the account of your flight. *I think it is
wonderful that you are using the anniversary of the flight to raise
donations for a very worthy cause.

I hope you have many more wonderful glider fights.

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde


Thanks Paul,

And I thanks again for you donation and your offer to post my article
on your email newsletter to other gliding members.

Regards
Graeme Cooper

I have now included this link to my scrapbook PDF file of the days
events of 1999 with pictures of the wreckage and of the screen images
of the reconstructions that were shown on the TV:-

http://sites.google.com/site/thebig4...attredirects=0

You may find it interesting.

Oh, and be careful up there!
Regards Graeme

ABSOLUTELY, the best lightning story I have EVER heard!

More than a story - you read the accident report...

http://tinyurl.com/c8a8l9


At 12:58 01 February 2009, wrote:
ABSOLUTELY, the best lightning story I have EVER heard!

Originally Posted by Big Wings

More than a story - you read the accident report...

http://tinyurl.com/c8a8l9


At 12:58 01 February 2009, wrote:
ABSOLUTELY, the best lightning story I have EVER heard!

Thanks Guys,

I too think it’s a good story although my mates are all fed up with hearing it now!

Please note that I have been having problems with a post I put on the Piloting page in which they were questioning weather this was spam. I had posted the message on Google groups which caused them to question the story. I note that I had also posted this through Google groups and not through my original login details with Aviation Banter hopefully this will allay any fears others may get that read this.


Regards Graeme

I wish to say a BIG THANK YOU to all those who are supporting me in this. The total amount of donations received so far from friends, family, gliding clubs, members of gliding clubs and aviation enthusiasts now stands at £788.00 (with gift aid) which equates to approximately £750.00 going direct to the Parkinson's Disease Society after Justgiving have taken their admin fee. This is absolutely fantastic and better than I ever imagined and we still have over 2 months to go before the big day.
Thanks again for your support and good luck messages.
Graeme

Well I did it. See my scrapbook of the days events of 10 years ago that has just been updated to include photos of my return to the sky:-
http://sites.google.com/site/thebig4...attredirects=0

Thanks to all those who supported me in this for your messages of support and donations. You have helped me to help the Parkinson's Disease Society help others. The total raised so far is over £1500!

I will leave you in your aviation world, My feet are safer on the ground!

All the best and

Thank you
Regards

Graeme Cooper

Sorry its me again, I have updated my scrapbook to include the TV and radio interviews of my return flight and a film of the reconstruction if you are interested. See :- http://sites.google.com/site/thebig4...theskiesagain/

Bye for now
Graeme Cooper