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| Webcam working well from 06. Are we waving or swatting flies? |
Saturday, 28 May 2016
.. and at the other end of the field ..
A steady stream of trial lessons and a few club members braved the murky sky, to be rewarded with a rather pleasant day and some decent thermals in the afternoon. Lots of bugs, though, who seemed to find the gliders and the inside of the cockpits their preferred hangout for the day.
One man went to mow
It's like magic. The grass in the trailer park takes on the aspect of a summer meadow - buttercups, pink clover daisies, all very pretty - and then someone cuts it. Who could that be? The Mower Meister is in fact Rob Turner, who has a fine selection of mowers and strimmers for those who are at a bit of a loose end on a no-fly day. Here's part of today's effort.
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Thursday, 26 May 2016
Fawley Hill steam extravaganza
Over the weekend of 20-22 May we were lucky enough to be at Fawley Hill Steam Extravaganza, thanks to an invitation from Lady McAlpine who organised the event to celebrate her husband Sir William McAlpine's 80th birthday.
We had an interesting position next to the merry-go-round and the station, so we had a grandstand view of the steam train making its regular trips down the hill laden with passengers, and then struggling back up - on occasion having to go back down and take another run at it.
We took the sim and the Junior (in its current cabriolet configuration) and had plenty of visitors, many of whom enjoyed sessions flying around the mountains in New Zealand.
The club members who came along took time out to look around the show with its many attractions - engines, cars, tractors, buses, camels, a unicorn (honest) as well as sampling Somerset cider and Gurkha curry. The only fly in the ointment was the downpour on Sunday afternoon just as we were thinking of packing up, so we got back to Booker very wet and muddy.
Many thanks to all those who helped out, in particular to Bob Smith who towed the sim trailer there and back, and to Robin Willgoss for tech support on the sim. Also to: Bob Davey, Chris Rowland, Chris Arnold, Julian Saakwa-Mante, David Fogden, Terry Clements, Chris Collett, Hedda Couture, David Humphreys, Symeon Economou, Bob Sinden - and Robert Turner, whose loan of a gazebo saved us from drowning.
We had an interesting position next to the merry-go-round and the station, so we had a grandstand view of the steam train making its regular trips down the hill laden with passengers, and then struggling back up - on occasion having to go back down and take another run at it.
We took the sim and the Junior (in its current cabriolet configuration) and had plenty of visitors, many of whom enjoyed sessions flying around the mountains in New Zealand.
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| Cabriolet Junior |
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| The sim proved popular |
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| More traction engines than you could shake a stick at |
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| We should have brought Mavis |
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| New buggy? |
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| Camels. Why not? |
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