A Great Morning on Ditchling Beacon

Hi All,
Paul, Ian A and I arrived at Ditchling this morning at just after 08:30 and decided to fly in our regular place East of the car park.
The wind was almost straight onto the hill and it was howling, making it feel very cold....
The lift was excellent and was working a LONG way out. There were also thermals as the dark clouds came over adding to the lift. We had to keep an eye out for full-sized gliders from time-to-time as they came through.

The first model to get into the air was my newly configured Mini Blade. I asked Paul to fly it for me as he's had a lot of mouldy experience and it went straight and true, so I took over and began carving up the sky. This model is superb to fly and even without ballast it was screaming along.
I then landed and switched to the Ninja because I didn't want to risk the Mini Blade before we go to the IOW.

Ian A flew his Starjet and it too was making brilliant progress in the strong lift. He then switched to his mouldy which he got from Will A.

Paul flew his Valenta Dragon which is a beautiful mouldy to watch (and to fly) and then flew his Aresti which is a great looking model and he was practicing his landings (which are always perfect !).

Graham U arrived with his large mouldy and his Orange own design model. The mouldy flew very well and looked like a full-size glider at times and the Orange model always flies very well. He also took a turn at the Dragon (which I too have flown), and he was really putting it through its paces.

Jim H arrived with his trusty Spectre and was practicing his flying and landing technique, unfortunately, he ventured too far behind the hill and ended up in the valley behind with a broken wing.

Later on Mark J arrived with a Phase 6 and joined us on the slope But it was about the time when we had all decided that we'd got cold enough , so poor old Mark was left on his own - sorry Mark !!

Everyone left with the same number of pieces of model they arrived with except Jim H whose wing almost detached itself.

We all agreed that this was yet another fantastic morning's flying - may there be many more ......