Itford Hill Sunday 9th Dec

Hi All,
Last Sunday, we decided to try Itford Hill as the forecast was strong WNW winds.
The forecast was accurate and Itford W slope was working pretty well, but it was choppy and gusting about 25 mph (thanks Tony for the anemometer).
There was a good turn out with Paul, Ian A, Rob, Tony C and Scotty with Robin who came as a spectator !
Paul and Ian had their M60s and Ian also had his little Komet, Rob had the Ninja, Tony had the Wildthing and Scott brought his Valenta Dragon (very brave).
Ian launched his Komet and despite it's tiny size and lack of weight it flew brilliantly as ever along with the M60 from Paul and the Ninja from Rob. Tony spent the time practicing his landings slightly away from the main bunch and was doing very well in the difficult conditions until he announced that his Wildthing had suffered a hard landing - in fact the fuselage was snapped right through in front of the wing !
Scott set up the Dragon and after a good flight with Paul's help, he asked Paul to land it which he did with is usual skill !
Paul and Ian decided to try to get the air speed record and took their models way up into the wind and then dived them across the hill in front of us at amazing speed - maybe 90 - 100 mph ? Who knows how fast - maybe we need a speed gun ?
After 2 hours the cold got the better of us all and we decided to call it a day.
It was such a great session and we all had fun (even Tony who has since fixed the Wildthing with Uhu POR  and glass tape).
There are some videos but I don't know how to load them up - (doh!)

Rob