slope soaring in the blackdowns
Good might be stretching it a little, I for one enjoyed an good afternoons flying at Bidwell. The conditions where light with the wind at about 8-10 mph eastly.
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A few pictures of the flying on the April Bank Holiday 2009.