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

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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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.

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.

Download the full AGM Minutes

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.

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