DHPC

Congratulations to all who were nominated and to the winners at our annual awards night.

The Winners (and nominees) were:

Chris Ellison (award for best XC from a Club site): Hugh Ginty for an incredible 110K flight from Sharpenhoe to Wiltshire.

Most Improved HG Pilot – Andy Scott (also nominated Mark Elsden)

Most improved PG Pilot – Paul Glover (also nominated Lucien Simon, Jim Butler)

George Farley (Bent Aluminium): Markus Kinch

Tree Hugger: Karoly Megyesi (Nick Clarke, James Dell, Gary Cooper, Richard Lane)

Best Promotional Video: Jackie Jeffries for Rhossili Bay

Best Photography: Colin Hawke for various in flight photographs

Best Video 2009: Markus Kinch for Dunstable 21st April 2009

Clubman: Jim West

Torn Nylon: Nick Clarke

Longest Scorch Mark: Paul Waring

Notable achievements were mentioned for: Tanya Ephgrave, Graham Ballard, Bill Bell.

The evening was, I think, a very successful event and went very smoothly thanks to everybody involved. In particular thanks must go to Ian Conway for getting everybody’s menu items correct, organising payments and arranging the band, to Mark Atkinson for arriving so early and setting up an extremely professional and top quality sound system, to the band No_mad, Jason Andrews for creating the Tree Hugger T shirts, to Tom Kane for organising the trophys and once again to Nigel Hewitt for doing all the engraving and Lucien Simon for providing a Tree Hugger painting.

And lastly I was given a bottle of Champagne! Thanks to you all!