1978 UK Athletics Championships below also competed at the 1978 AAA Championships. Sonia Lannaman defended her 100 metres/200 metres sprint double from 1977. Allan Wells took his first sprint double on the men's side and Jane Colebrook managed a double in the 400 metres and 800 metres. Athletes to retain their titles from 1977 included Lannaman, sprint hurdlers Berwyn Price and Sharon Colyear, Geoff Capes (men's shot put), Meg Ritchie (women's discus) and Tessa Sanderson (women's javelin). The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the 1978 European Athletics Championships. Two athletes at the UK event won individual
Sanderson Field (Texas) for the men and as hangars for aircraft. The only permanent wood structures came in the summer of 1920 when Eagle Pass Field was closed and the buildings moved to Sanderson. The 90th Squadron arrived in November, with a detachment (A) operating from Eagle Pass Field. It flew de Havilland DH-4 aircraft, built in the United States, the type used as bombers during World War I in France. Almost immediately the patrols began. Operations from Sanderson consisted of patrols west, along the Rio Grande as far as Lajitas in the Big Bend, then turn and fly back. Eastbound patrols headed