A Little Bit of Self Isolation on Mill Hill

In today's climate of the fear of spreading the dreaded lurgi to each other the 3 of us intrepid flyers decided to undertake some self isolation up on Mill Hill. Unfortunately, for us a number of other model slope soarers had the same idea.

Rob P, John M and I met at Mill Hill around 2pm, we found John already assembling his F3F 2.9mtr wing span Strega V tail and Rob P brought along his F3F Needle and a Mini Graphite 1.9 mtr wing span produced by Valadmir's Models and I as usual, had my SAS Wildthing 46 inch.

Flying was already in progress by the time we had arrived, so we joined in. The weather was good with a strong blow and good visibility despite the low sun. A number of SAS Wildthing flyers were practicing their combat skills on the lower slope to the left of us with one of their models landing in a tree.

Today was a very good day for the F3F class of model glider. Both John M and Rob P made some very impressive landings, very well done to the both of you.

                                                    Rob P expertly landing his model

Then John M had an unstoppable urge to fly his newly acquired scale model Pilatus. He even managed to return back to his car and have a good rummage in the boot, only to return empty handed. With his head bowed he accepted that today was not the day for the Pilatus to have it's first and last flight. Maybe next time John.

                                           A good turn out of some very nice model gliders

I managed to get some more stick time in today but one of the highlights was being witness to a fellow Willow flyer who attempted to catch his glider as it was about to land. Running towards the incoming glider he stumbled in the grass, managed to grab the glider as he fell but sacrificed himself and fell away from the glider rather than on top of it, which would have been rather expensive. Shame the video camera was not running at that time.