Flying Itford Hill 31 Aug 2014

 

 

Hi All,

Today Paul, Clint, Graham U and I (Rob) met at Itford at 09:30.

We went to the N facing bowl, but found that there was little or no lift at that time.

 

We decided to try our new Vagabonds and Graham kindly took some video of the occasion as below



 

 

 

 

There wasn't much lift but we all managed to get some kind of flying in.

Graham reverted to his Libelle which flew for 40 minutes without a break and we all just watched because we didn't have anything up to that.

After about 11:00 the wind swung round and we were able to get some better sloping , Paul flew his brilliant Typhoon, Clint his Pzazz and I stuck to my only model on the day - the Vagabond.

 

At 11:30 we were joined by 6 colleagues from Dartford who had come down for the day and we all got on famously - it was good to meet them and I hope to see them again.

 

All-in-all a variable day, but still we got 3.5 hours of relative good sloping.

Rob



Soaring Mill Hill on 28th Aug 2014

Hi All,
Today Graham, Clint and I met at Mill Hill for some soaring.
When Graham and I arrived, there was wind but almost no lift because the wind was too Westerly.
After a short while it moved more South Westerly and we were all able to fly.
I was going to maiden test my Hacker Vagabond which Tim Hampshire kindly put together for me, but it was too blustery, so it stayed in the boot. Graham flew his Fusion, Mijet and Vagabond, but agreed it was not a good day to test mine.
Clint arrived to find the wind exactly where we wanted it, but very blustery - gusting up to 25 mph at times. Clint flew his M60 and Pzazz.
I flew my Stargazer, but a relatively soft landing in long grass caused the wing to twist and fuselage snapped along an old break.
May be that the Stargazer won't fly again..

We met a lot of locals who were very friendly and I also helped Les (from SRFC) to set up his new Wildthing which went very well.

A good 3 hours of flying.

Rob Stanley