The danger of being the last in the clubhouse of a flying day is getting caught by Jill with “will any one write a blog please?” plea! So I was collared, no where to go… Excuses up front, I have little knowledge of the good work done up front only that JB and Pete Smith were instructing and Mark Wallis was in the DLM regalia when I met him.
With SF and Eagle business to attend to I had only passing regard for the sky which looked to be playing out the forecast. Unstable, none too high a cloud base with a layer of high cloud and over-development keeping the sun from warming things too much. At times in the afternoon it felt autumnal to this man in shorts and flip flops!
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| SM on aerotow (Simon Minson) |
Pete Startup in 230 had the best crack at things visiting Crediton, Wellington and Chard for 110kms but he struggled back and I noticed Simon Minson in his ASW20 kept it local before switching into coach mode and flying with Paul Medlock on some instructor training flights. For a while it was quite soarable locally and the melee over the site quite intense!
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| Stirling Melhuish SF27 in the launch queue (John Pursey) |
My earlier SF business had involved rigging - getting Alan’s SF27 rigged and at long last we actually managed to get Stirling Melhuish up in it. With countless SF27 shares and outright ownerships to his name he of course, ironically, was flying the one we owned but he was there! Well done to Stirling, let’s get the next 2 SF27s over the finish line and go racing!
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| Chilly in shorts today (John Pursey) |
I was the last to land (in an SF naturally) at 5:20 after a jolly 90 minutes so, all in all not a bad day. - John Pursey
