Contest Master of Ceremonies Peter Marshall reports……. And yet another successful round of the phoenix 2000 glider challenge. Good weather and a lack of nasty wind made for an interesting day good at times if you picked it right to fly. Unfortunately my competition battery let me down, the climb out was pretty rubbish, but… Read More »
Phil B has stepped into Cyril’s shoes regarding program management for the duration of Cyril’s convalescence. Phil’s update appears below….. August 2019 Sunday 4th Trigon 10am · Club Gliding P2K competition event; includes general flying. Thursday 8th Carey Hall 7.30pm · WW1 scale static models for our perusal. · Talk by Chris Haug on all… Read More »
28 July saw us enjoying our annual barbi. This year, we were given special permission by the landowner to hold it at our flying field – for which we are grateful. Darren did us proud by lugging up his gas barbi which did a fine job; thank you Darren. The event was very much enjoyed… Read More »
On Sunday 21st July, a charity fund-raising event took place at Kingston Barn farm on the Isle of Purbeck. Billed as a smaller Kingston village-based event, our club was invited to be part of it, not in the flying sense but to provide an attraction by way of a static model display; we were of… Read More »
Round 5 A good day had by all apart from me trying to configure the trims etc on the new transmitter, weather conditions good to fair and 6 competitors. Placings for the day are as follows……. 1st David, 2nd Simon, 3rd Dick, 4th Darren, 5th Phil. Round 6 Another good day had by all who were able… Read More »
Although stocked with nuts, bolts, propellers and various odds and ends that a flyer has either lost or broken on the adjacent flying field (or even forgotten to bring!), the Clubhouse store has been, until now, a pretty dark and dingy place in which to search for that tiny item you really do need right… Read More »
Our esteemed P2K organiser has done it again! Peter Marshall provided us with yet another excellent (but relaxed!) day at Trigon on Sunday June 9th. Normal flying, of course, continued in parallel. Peter writes…… Well, the weather Gods were kind to me today as it was a perfect day for round 4 of the 2000… Read More »
For the first 2.3 comp of 2019, the weather was looking very iffy and I think most members would have thought that it would be cancelled (I nearly made that decision!) but over the years have found that no sooner do you cancel and out comes the sun! So I went ahead. I was last… Read More »
We enjoyed a small EDF gathering at our patch on Sunday. Vampire, Hawk, Skyhawk and of course, a Vulcan. Pilot, Cyril Carr; Cameraman, Phil Burton; “Restrainer”, David Watson.
NB Flying dates may change, weather considerations etc. May 2019 Sat 18th Trigon 10am thermal gliding. Sun 26th Trigon 10am p2k. June 2019 (Busy month!) Sun 2nd Trigon 10am p2k. Sun 9th Trigon 10am p2k. Thur 13th Carey 7.30 pm meeting, talk by Phil B and David B. Subject matter will be engine collections diesel,… Read More »