After the delay, we arranged for the use of the club's K21 to expand our 'bandwidth'. This meant as yesterday, everyone flew. Many thanks to the (now legendary) Simon Adlard for agreeing to take Chris C for a launch failure practice, despite only being on site to fly his own glider. Prior to lunch Tim P and Chris C had been cleared to fly solo/club single seaters.
A privately owned T21 was being flown from the site by Roger. 'Bees around a honey pot' was the expression that springs to mind. His flying list quickly became longer than the club's. This was probably helped by the spectacle of some slighly unconventional circuits! Andria M turned into a very excited person indeed, having secured a flight and returned grinning like a cheshire cat.
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| Roger and Andria in the T21 |
Into the afternoon, and Henry F (finally), Paul S, Adrian P, Andrew L, Steve W and David C all went off for a fly. Paul and Adrian reported difficult conditions, and did some 'local bimbling'. Henry ventured further getting away in a poor looking sky for a 2 hour flight. David C had 1hr 40m on his first ever solo flight from the Mynd. Paul L SF27 enjoyed over two hours soaring and Matthew W had a couple of extended circuits. Mark C and Dave W took the 505 for a 2 hour jaunt around the valley followed by some ridge action.
Much amusement was enjoyed into the evening with some model flying. This wasn't much to do with the models but more to do with watching Adrian P squirm as Matthew W performed more and more risky manouvres with his model. Egged on by some ever more enthusiastic hecklers, high speed, low altitude inverted fly-bys followed by some touch-and-gos seemed to keep everyone happy.
Many thanks to Chris C for holding a quick WW1 memorial service later in the evening to remind us of the shocking statistics involved.
