The forecast looked promising, warm day light winds. The soaring forecast was a little uncertain but would almost certainly be a blue day and with the pressure so high would thermals form at all..
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| Club member Jerry continues his training |
Flying start was delayed a little until some early morning mist had burned away. Despite some valiant efforts to find thermic conditions it just did not happen. Later a wedge of sea air drove into the area and stopped any possibility of thermal development.
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| The Jantar 1 waiting to go |
Some of the private fleet were out today including the Astir G-CJSK flown by Steve Raine and Dene Hitchen, The Jantar 1 flown by me, and a very rare appearance of the K10 flown by Chris Matten. The K10 was the development aircraft that came between the K6CR and the K6E. It has the all flying tail of the K6E, the wing is a different profile from the K6CR and has a lot of ribs ( reportedly to maintain the new laminar profile ). This is the only K10 in the UK. Of the other 9 aircraft originally manufactured only one other is known to be flying; that one flies in Belgium.
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| Proud owner Chris Matten and his K10 |
The hangar was a hive of activity as work continues on the new K7M and the Pirat. Many thanks to all those involved.
Steve
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