The other 9 of us all went to the cliff by the coastguard station where somebody was already flying a mouldie in an F3F fashion (pylon racing on the cliffs), but he moved to the West a little to carry on out of our way.
I cannot remember all the models and combinations of who flew what when, but everyone had a good lot of flying with any number of foamies and mouldies and Paul also had his balsa Highside.
I took the club Spectre for Robin and both he and I were practicing landings in the challenging situation of the cliffs - very small area to land, lots of people and dogs passing and a very threatening bramble forest just behind where we land !! Paul gave us some help on positioning and approach, then left us to practice (thanks Paul, my confidence is returning)……..
The others were flying further out with their models , so we were able to practice landings almost continuously - John M was also joining us with his Wildthing and doing a great job, even managing some touch-and-go stuff.
Graham U always has a lovely moulded model with him and today was the same - he was flying very well as ever and I saw him flying inverted circuits over the sea and many other aerobatics.
Ian and Paul were flying their mouldies (Merlow and Euphoria) and then swapped to the M60s for a bit of high speed cliff bashing. Tony had his Wildthing but I didn't notice whether he was doing landing practice or not, Mark had a foam glider with a v tail but it had a hard landing and the tail looked a bit loose.
We were joined by another flyer from Epsom club but he was waiting until later before he flew and 3 para-gliders who were very friendly and waited until we'd finished before setting up for their flying.
Many thanks to everyone who came.
Finally, it might be the last time we get to fly with Ian A before he moves to Wales in a couple of weeks' time in which case I want to thank Ian for all his help and guidance over the years he's been with us.
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