Promised was a steady 7mph westerly, what we got was more like 3-7ish westerly.

Up on the beacon on at 1:30 it looked promising my *cough* ted’s 2 meter floater seemed to be going nicely right up to the point when Ted and Dave turned up and killed my lift. I’m not bitter or anything.

Ted optimistic as ever was sporting his new SAS wild thing that he picked up at the sale on Tuesday. Dave brought a 40 year old glider, having pointed out to him that’s quite a bit older than me dave pointed out it’s in better nick than me, can’t argue with that.

Being on a short pass I was all but packed up my the time that John Hills arrived up on the slope, didn’t manage to stay long enough to see him fly.

Gareth

The next club meeting will be:

Friday 26th Feburary at 19:30

The Holywell Inn near Wellington

Address:

The Holywell
Holywell Lake
Wellington
TA21 0EJ

Main item on the agenda, the election of a club secretary.

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The first flyable Sunday in a good while meant a pretty good turn out. The wind was a good 10mph westerly at around 2 but drop quite a bittorrent nearer 5mph or less, still flyable but only really with floaters.

Jemery gave his skyrider fox it’s maiden flight. Seemed to go well, but the formation flying with stuart’s fox might need a little work.

Only one bin bag required this afternoon and that was for my mini x-blade, which had a mid air with a tree. Well a bin bag is a bit of an over statement, it’s got a bit of impact damage on the leading edge of the port wing. Should be fixable. It’s been added to the increasing stock of U/S models in the shed.

Well I guess that isn’t a surprise since you are looking at it.

A couple of things aren’t finished yet, the most notable of which are the gallery pages. For these I’m hoping to use a new Flickr group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/wbmgc/

Currently the images that I’ve uploaded aren’t visible publicly, I’m hoping to get this fixed in the next week or so.

The AGM was held on 14 Dec 2009 at the usual venue of the Sampford Peverell village hall.

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The meeting was quite well attended and ran on rather late.

The executive summary of meeting  goes something like:

• Had a good talk about the events of last year
• The North Hill event will go ahead at North Hill, but on a smaller more controlled scale
• Gareth and Pete where elected Chairman and Treasurer respectively, but nobody stood for Secretary
• Colin won the Arther Withers award
• The fish and chips where much needed (at nearly 10pm)
• Ted Williams won the Build and Fly comp.

The big issue in that lot is the fact that the club no longer has a secretary, Colin has done a sterling job in the position and I don’t think anybody can blame him for wanting to give it up and let somebody else have a go. Trouble is nobody seems to want to step up and have a go.