There is a chance of some thunderstorms coming through so it could be a bit of a gamble. If in doubt call or text me on 07720 450 156 and I let you know what the current plan is.

If you are coming up, back sure you grab a bite to eat first as there isn’t going to be a BBQ tonight.

Given the slim chance of actually flying I was quite impressed to see quite so many people up there, either we’re all hopeless optimist or we can sniff out a BBQ burger at 5 miles.

The plan is to attempt to reconvine next Monday 27th June for a second bash at it, but we are waiting for confirmation that we can use the field and that there aren’t any full size events on. I’ll email around when I have word.

BREAKING NEWS: Just had word that Monday 27th is good for a rerun (minus the burgers that is), lets hope the weather improves abit.

Ted and Dave where already setup and flying when I arrived and Steve Clark arrived shortly after. Steve and Ted seemed to be getting the best of the flying, Ted with his Elan and Steve with his 3 meter moldie.

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.

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

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.

Still learning! This all too short video was made using my old Nikon Coolpix 4300 so the quality’s not great. It shows Ted, Chairman of West Blackdown Model Gliding Club launching his 100″Cambrian Elan in very light conditions. We took lots of planes but the weather forecasters were wrong both for the wind speed and the wind direction. We could fly the floaters, but only just! However, we love nothing better than scratching around with a floater! We flew like this until sundown….a great day.

Le Fish is an EPP aerobatic glider kitted by Leading Edge Gliders from USA. This is the first video shot by my partner Elaine Mendoza using a Olympus Still camera. It is the first bit of video editing I have done using Nero vision. Neither are Oscar winning performances but not a bad start.
It’s a lot more compressed than the original so it’s very jerky and grainy….more experimentation required.

Still suffering from poor conditions! The Aggressor is very aerobatic but here it’s only just staying in the air