Beautiful views from the top of Itford

Rob, Will and Myself went to Itford Hill yesterday instead of the field as first arranged. The wind was stronger than anticipated so a change of plan at the last minute. What a lovely day though. Pity more people couldn't come out to play, I know some of you went off to Blackbush Airshow - How was that. Buy anything Interesting?

The trip started well with me seeing how low down I could slope soar going up the hill and managed to soar just up form the gate and to the top. I was videoing the ascent only to find I had left the lens cap on all the way up - What a muppet!
Will launched his Spectre and was left to his own devices and was enjoying himself. Rob was showing us how well his Moth flies and I continued to explore the flight envelope of the Tracuer and managed to land it upside down on more than one occasion. Will tested out the strength and bounciness of his Spectre with his first taste of lost control. I suffer from that all the time but the rubber pants have made all the difference. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately, the Impact only broke a control horn but that was the end of Will's flying. Soon be back in the air Will !
There were a group of other modellers up there flying HUGE scale gliders and didn't they look realistic? We moved round a little to the corner of the slope, hoping the slight change in wind direction (WNW) would be better along the hill but it wasn't much better.
After playing for a while we decided enough was enough and we made our way back down to the cars. I thought it would be a good idea to see how far you could fly your model down the hill. Surprisingly, nearly all the way back to the car in fact. Here is a video of how it went.

I took lots of video but the camera was at the wrong angle and you saw mostly sky. Who wants to see  video of just sky? Must get that sorted out for next time.
Thanks for the great company Rob & Will..........