Saturday 16 August 2008

You should have been here yesterday...

That was the general consensus about today's weather. However there were a few decent soaring flights made, Norman Clowes flew over 2hrs in his ASW20 and Tim Davies in his ASW27 attempted the Presidents Triangle landing out a few kms short of Tibenham on his final glide. A total of 10 flights all aerotow with an average time of 45mins, longest flight was just over 2 hrs.

We had a visit from the Diss Express and I took their reporter Nick Wells for a flight in the Grob 103, it was early in the day so it had not got soarable yet, however Nick seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself and was keen to get lots of information about the club for the article. Tony Griffiths in the tug had an accompanying camera man to take some air to air shots. So watch out for the feature in a copy of the Diss Express in the next few weeks (www.dissexpress.co.uk).

The interclub at Rattlesden was scrubbed due to wind direction/strength, so again Tibenham was probably the best place to be.