A glorious sunday for flat field, but not at are usually field. The normal field hasn’t been cut yet and probably won’t be for good couple of weeks. Thankfully Mr Auckland managed to pull a field out from under his hat at the 11th hour. The field is on the Millverton road out of Wellington and quite simply massive, the main bulk of the field is given over to corn, but there is a generous border cut all the way around for point to point horse racing (apparently).

Turn out was:

• Ted
• Dave
• Phil
• Peter
• John
• Me (Gareth)

Only being six in number didn’t stop us from setting up both bungee’s and the club winch.

The flying was good, well it was at least for 30 minutes I was actually flying for until my pass expired. Ted maiden’d his new giant electric toy only to break it a couple of minutes later (apparently manufactor’s glue wasn’t up to the job).

For my part I had a couple of nice flights and learnt the lessen that it’s better to go and get the small normal sized bungee rather than try a 2 meter floater on the uber monster bungee. Boy does it go up quick on that thing.

Couple of photos from Sunday’s (21st March) flying on at the beacon. Lovely day brought out a whole host of faces. Amongst the turn out; Steve Thorn was their with his 1/4 scale cadet and Steve Clark was out with a rather impressive looking x-blade.

The main problem on sunday was of course light wind, at under 5kt’s westly it could barely keep the floaters up. My new shinny Alulu (my only servicable model!) seem to fair quite well. Ted’s wild thing managed about the best, but I suspect that had more to do with sheer stubbornness.

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.