Saturday 8 August 2015

What a turn out!

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

4 comments:

  1. http://slopesaoringsussex.uk/_Media/080815-hassocks.gif
    The 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….

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  2. 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.

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  3. Nice to fly with company. Super day adn i learned a lot from talking to others.

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  4. You 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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