Saturday at Mill Hill

HI All,
Today Ian, Tony  Mark and I met up at Mill Hill to fly the strong SW wind.
Paul was unable to make it this morning so we had to fly without him - which is quite unusual - we all missed him though !
I arrived early and decided to fly the Ninja in the estimated 35 mph gusts, it was hard to get it away from the hill, so I went to the edge and threw it off - once airborne the lift was tremendous. I had about 15 minutes before landing to wait for the others. Ian came and decided it was too blustery for anything other than the Starjet which flew remarkably well in the conditions. Unfortunately Ian's first attempt at a launch landed in dog mess, so the model had to be sanitised before trying again ! Later we were joined by Tony with his Wildthing which he launched himself and flew by himself  - not for the first time, but the first time in such wild conditions. Even the landing was pretty good. He did remarkably well. Ian and I also decided to land, but unfortunately, I went a bit too far back on the hill and I landed in the field behind !! Next we were joined by Mark with a foamy Multiplex Blizzard which I threw into the wind and it made great headway (turns out Mark had a load of ballast onboard). Mark blasted around the sky for quite a while but had a heavy landing and that put an end to the V tail for today. Ian had a final flight of his Starjet which flew very well in the even stronger wind (maybe 40 - 45 mph), but he too succumbed to the Mill Hill curse of getting pushed back into the field behind, oh well, not just me then !
Altogether, we had had a blast (literally) and decided that we should quit while ahead. As we left some of the locals were arriving to brave the conditions........

Rob Stanley