drone debate

More drone discussion in the national news on Radio 4 this morning.
Start the i-player at 1hr 17min 46 sec for a short, but well balanced item.

3xasw27+35meg+2.4ghzx10mph=:-)

A little dabble with the air from last summer, unfortunately they've got a while to go before they reach

synchronised public flying display standards....thanks to Eric for capturing it for posterity.

from out of the gloom

Only two and a half months to go until the longest day!

As we crawl out of the gloom it's good to see a familiar band

of wastrels (some local some form further afield) up on the hill.

Let the season commence! 

Paul's flap equipped Fusion....footage to follow at some point.

Conditions were also just right for his other maiden;

we ogled at her black carbon sexiness

Sharon

Tracy

an interesting old skool ASW19

and what appears to be a hatch is in-fact a flap / spoiler / brake thing a ma jig

Gulp?

we were in danger of actually getting a flying shot here!

a lovely Purbeck Assassin

Valenta ASW 20

and we round up TVSF's varied and rich spread

of gravity defying machines with a

rather splendid Sean Bannister Algebra 7(?)

shifting your old tat

'Bring and Buy' stall at the Soaring Society of America's annual convention;

now wish I hadn't left my wallet back at the hotel room.

vintage voltage

It's all gone retro at the Goodwind hangar this weekend

with some steady, gentle old-skool electrons trickling into the packs.