Saturday 22 April 2017

What a cracker!!

Hi all.
A good turnout up on Ditchling Beacon this morning. Tony (our newest member), Ian, Rob, Scott, Richard, Paul & Will all trudged over to Ditchling West. The sky was full of moulded gliders which I don't think I have seen before today.
Tony brought his brand new Wildthing and was helped through the maiden flight by Rob. Tony managed 3 flights with three hard landings, but that's OK for his first ever flight. Rob then set up the buddy system on the transmitters , so Tony was able to remain in the air for much longer with Rob making adjustments if needed. Well done Tony, a great first day's flying.
Paul, Ian and Richard all flew their respective mouldies with great skill and Rob flew his Moth foamie firstly before trying the Impulse mouldie which flew extremely well. He was helped with the landings though !
Will flew his mouldie and made two very good landings - that makes three successful landings now - keep it up Will...
Scott flew the Valenta Dragon , again he flew very well, but like Rob requires some assistance with the landings.
Later Scott, Paul, Ian and Will all flew combat with their M60s and Wildthings whilst Rob and Tony were flying buddy on the Wildthing a bit out of their way !!
Throughout all of this Richard continued to carve up the sky with his 4 metre mouldie (F5B he tells me), with great skill.

Here is a group shot of us all and the collection of gliders that I think all flew.
Tony (for those who haven't met him yet) with his SAS Wildthing
Rob with his mouldy
Richard with his huge 4m mouldy (FS4000 by Sport Klem in Germany) that he flew so very well. Hopefully when  I  get around to editing the tons on video from today there will be some good video of Richard flying. The model is not really that big it just Richard is very small.
And finally (for now) here is a video of Ian flying his Euphoria a warp speed.
More video to come, So please bear with me!

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