Steve's Safari Day Two (by Paul, with inserts by Rob)

After yesterday's marathon flying session with three sites visited, todays flying opportunities seemed somewhat limited. Rob, Steve, Ian and I met up at Itford at 10.00am and were greeted at the top by a bright sky and a WSW wind that had been forecast. Soon the wind swung round to SW or even SSW (we know this because Steve brought along his windsock).

There was wave activity about with a long standing wave cloud (lenticular) going from way out to sea at one end and going all the way in land for miles. This I think was providing lift from broken wave as the wind was coming from the SW but still strong lift way out in the valley but hey what do I know?

Steve had his mouldy screaming around the sky with huge loops and roles. Ian was demonstrating some good flying with his Wildthing and later on with his Vagabond.
Rob flew his Stargazer but after a very good landing the elevator was broken in half. Thanks to Cyano from Steve and some Kicker, it was soon in the air again. After a second soft landing, the entire right-hand tail section came off changing the conventional tail into a modern looking V tail design - looked good Rob!

Well, that teaches me (Rob) to check what you're buying second-hand for only £30 !

We had loads of fun aerobating the Traceur and Zulu nice and low to the ground. It was a great few hours of slope fun. Lots of greaser landings from Rob and Ian and only one broken model - Result.

 

Here's Steve enjoying himself up at Itford Hill.
Thanks to everyone who made the weekend a success and a huge apology to Graham U for us not making it up to Colley Hill yesterday.

From Rob -
Steve, I'm sorry about that mid-air at Mount Caburn on Saturday, it was entirely a mistake, unlike those at Mill Hill later in the day with Alan Head and the SAS guys, who deliberately targeted our Ninjas. They didn't make any impressions on us though despite some big hits, the Ninjas are bullet-proof.

Back to Paul -
I'm on safari up in Wales next weekend and hoping to go flying with Steve on Sunday which should be fun.
Again tons of video to come guys. Even one of me being attacked and knocked to the floor by a very aggressive Traceur being flown by someone I won't mention other than he is on his way back to Wales as I write this !!