Another day with little prospect of soaring until midday caused the assembled members to look for any tasks to be carried out around the club. Scratch started Tractoring and Mowing the airfield. To give him a break Phil took over until a couple of the castor wheels decided they did not want to play. So today we had to do Engineering.
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| Today we did Engineering. |
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| Today Scratch did Strimming. |
Colin Boyd arrived to complete the repairs on HXP ready for it to be rigged, test flown and returned to the fleet.
By now our resident soaring pundit, Malcolm Wilton-Jones was getting itchy feet to go flying. Although the forecast was not promising we got the K8 out and set up ready for him to fly. Promptly after launching he was soon climbing away. I decided to join him in the Astir, but failed miserably with only a 5minute circuit. Phil Hardwick took over in the Astir and was also soon climbing away after launching.
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| Phil ready to fly. |
Malcolm returned after 1hour 23minutes and Phil after 1hour 10minutes.
Thank you to Scratch for winching. Another hot day tomorrow for a full day’s club flying.
Peter Howarth
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