There was a great forecast for Thursday and two club members decided to try something big. Graham Paul and Al Cook declared a 750km flight and set Edgehill, Newmarket, Carlton (North York Moors!), Ely and home - quite ambitious but not as stretching as the original plan to fly back from Aboyne! They set off early but found it not as good as expected out Cambridge way, and quite difficult over the high ground on the Yorkshire Moors. After some good saves and interesting views of the coast, they then came back south and eventually recorded an engine 'land out' near Ely, having had a memorable flight of c 550km!
Meanwhile Bob Playle had an additional
one of his K6's in the UK - EI-GLG, 'The Albatross' who normally lives
in Ireland but was here en route to the International Vintage Rally at
Terlet in the Netherlands. The forecast for Thursday was too good to
turn down so Bob set the 300km task of Edgehill, Littleport, Stow on the
Wold, and Edgehill. Littleport was achieved without too much of a
problem, but Bob reports that the Albatross didn't want to come back
East. He thinks she had the NL in her sights, as that is where the
glider flew originally!! So Bob and the albatross ended up near Ely
in a rather nice field at an equestrian centre, and Clive, Bob King, and Jan had a long retrieve out to Cambridgeshire. The glider's next trip will be across the channel to Terlet in the trailer - we look forward to hearing all about that.
Odd that both tasks came unstuck around Ely but probably says more about the weather than anything else. Anyone else do anything interesting?