Today at the field we had over half the club out enjoying the summer sunshine, with nine off us flying.
With a wide variety of models being flown from the Whippet DLG up to electric mouldy F5J's and a host of gliders in-between. The bungee was out too, with both Jacks Gentle Lady and Rob's Ka8 taking advantage of a high start.
Thanks to all who attended for making the day a huge success. Lets hope we get some calmer days soon so we can all get down there again for some more flat field flying. I got lots of video of the flying but just need a little time to do some basic editing and load it up onto the blog.
Chris (the farmer) has now fixed the gate and we have a fully functioning gate into our flying field.
If you were down there today share your thoughts either respond below with a comment or leave a comment in the shout box.
Cheers, Paul
Slope Soaring Sussex is a friendly group of RC glider flying enthusiasts based in Sussex, UK. We slope soar at various locations on the South Downs and have a field for thermal soaring. ‘Slope Soaring Sussex’ is a BMFA affiliated RC Glider-only flying club. We fly many types of RC gliders from conventional slope soarers to Scale, DLG, F3B, F3J, F5J, PSS and more. Our aim is to encourage and promote safe, responsible and enjoyable radio controlled model flying. New and experienced flyers welcome.
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ReplyDeleteThe Graphite 2e is finally trimmed and this morning I had several great flights to test out its thermalling abilities - this is the log of the last flight at around 11:30am - above 400ft the air was rising almost everywhere at about 350ft/min….
Good news all round then, especially regarding the gate. Just for the record Jack's Gentle Lady is actually a Flair Sunrise - these models were all the rage up at Ashdown Forest 20 years ago when they established a reputation for staying airborne after everything else had floated down.
ReplyDeleteNice to fly with company. Super day adn i learned a lot from talking to others.
ReplyDeleteYou are right Rusty. A Flair Sunrise it is ! It still goes very well for a vintage and not to mention very battered Sunrise.
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