A day with two halves, the
morning started bright but soon over-developed with a southwesterly wind and
showers which held us up for about 15min. After the rain had stopped,
the wind veered to northwest and strengthened and it became very thermic.
There
was a flurry of glider rigging and even Nigel stopped polishing his
glider and put it on line, Pete St Discus, Jeff T Mosquito, Nick H DG300, and
Dave C Pilatus B4 all had long soaring flights.
Pete
W was busy all day with aero-tows, thanks to Eric and Peter Sm for doing
the Trial lessons all of them having good soaring flights.
The
two K21s, a K13 and the Junior were kept in the air all day and all
who flew had good long flights, Peter Sm flew his younger sister for her first
glider flight -
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| Peter takes his sister for a flight (John St) |
landed smiling from ear to ear! - JSt
News from Long Mynd
After a lot of model flying, the weather changed and congratulations to Pete B on his 5 hours in the K6 completing his Silver.
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| Family Bennett celebrating (Simon L) |
There must be some more news from Long Mynd...
