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Local Events

john — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:52:24 +0000

Look on the events page for details of local flying events coming up this year.

2011 AGM at Sampford Peverell Village Hall on the 8th December

john — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:12:26 +0000

The AGM was well attended with the usual fish and chip supper and a great raffle enjoyed by all.

The following people were elected onto the committee for 2012.

Chairman: Steve Thorne

Secretary: John Hacker

Treasurer and Membership Secretary: Mark S

The winner of the build and fly competition was Wayne Morgan with an average time of just over 3 seconds!

The Arthur Withers trophy was awarded to Gareth Davis.

The subs for next year were set at £10 . Please note the BMFA subs for next year are £31

Finally Happy Christmas to you all and lets hope next year is great year for flying.

First flat field of the year

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:51:34 +0000

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.

New site design is Live!

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:03:45 +0000

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.