Today Rob S and Kevin M met up at Itford Hill to try out Kevin's Wildthing and Middle Phase.
On arrival at the top of the hill, there didn't appear to be too much wind (or lift either), so Rob launched the club Wildthing to check out the conditions.
It turned out that there was sufficient lift to enable the club Wildthing to fly for a reasonable time and at times there was also slight thermal activity which lifted the model to a good height.
It was decided the there was insufficient lift to try out the Middle Phase.
We were briefly joined by a guy from Newhaven who had an old Secret Weapon model, but that too wasn't getting a lot of lift so he decided to go home and come back with a 4 mtr glider.
We tried Kevin's Wildthing but despite a lot of trimming we just couldn't get it to fly correctly, but by adding a small amount of weight to the nose it became much better (despite the C of G being exactly where it was meant to be), this made the model much better to fly and enabled it to penetrate a lot better. Kevin decided to leave the Wildthing until he could adjust the C of G at home. We then both flew the club model for some time.
During our session, we were joined briefly by John I, who chatted to us and explained that he was going to try the NW bowl , so off he went and we never saw John again but hope he had a good flying session.
A mediocre day's flying but it did teach Kevin how to keep the model up despite a lack of lift, so all was not lost.
Rob Stanley
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