Drymmau Farm
Note: This map gives only a rough position within the UK. If anybody can kindly provide a more exact location, this advice will be most welcome.
DRYMMAU FARM: Gliding site
Location: In/near and probably N of Skewen which is NE of Swansea
Period of operation: 1970s only?
NOTES: The information regarding this site came from an article in the February edition of Light Aviation magazine. In a ‘Meet the Members’ piece featuring Mike Mold he relates: “My first solo was memorable, in a Ka-4 glider from Drymmau Farm, a stony hill-top strip near Swansea, in 1975 – the sheer exuberance of the increased rate of climb without the instructor on board, (My note – something every pilot remembers on their ‘first solo’), the field dropping away below me, getting ridge lift against the backdrop of the stunning view across Swansea Bay from the Port Talbot steel works, past the oil refinery and across to the Gower Peninsular, and the decision to do just one more beat along the ridge before defying the clutching hand on the approach.”
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