I’ll start this blog with the apologies and thanks. First I apologise for
stopping flying before all had flown and leaving the airfield before all was
packed up. Secondly the thanks to those who told me to leave and offered to pack
everything away. This was to enable me to get home before the A386 across
Roborough Down was closed for the ongoing nightly roadworks and avoid an up to
30 mile detour.
As for the day, yet another day started with low cloud and drizzle, so no
flying although the forecast gave a clearance for early afternoon. After putting
the world to right over early morning tea and coffee, Colin arrived to carry on
working on DMX. Various members were set tasks from painting, polishing and
assisting with repairs. Shortly after a late lunch the forecast clearance
arrived, so it was all hands to ready the airfield to fly.
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| K13 HXP with improving sky behind. |
K13 HXP and K8 GDK were towed to the east end. With only Bob Sansom and Robin
Wilson needing the K13, Bob got ready first whilst Robin chose to winch. Phil
Hardwick was first in the K8. Bob had 3 circuits with one extended flight of 19
minutes. Phil was seen climbing well in the K8 and finally returned after 33
minutes. With only a small number of members today it was a case of continually
swapping duties so we could keep flying and hopefully get all airborne.
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| Robin Ready to fly with me. |
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| Bob looking cool after flying. |
Next in the K13 was Robin who also had 3 flights with one extended flight of
13 minutes. Hugh Gasgoyne, Martin Broadway and Malcolm Wilton-Jones all took
turns in the K8.
Only 10 flights, but at least we flew. Thanks again to all who turned up
today. One more apology, to Allan Holland who did not fly due to packing up
early to enable me to get home.
Peter Howarth
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