combat christmas

 

combat!

 

x bow

 Tricky enough to film, let alone fly!!

Camber!

 

....one year on and I've still got sand up my ballast hole!

2020

 about two and a half years ago this happened....

Anyone else remember the summer?

be prepared

Out and about for a bit of alternative sightseeing over in Tilbury. It's always worth packing an Alula

because you just never know when you might come across a

3 metre high incline that faces the wind!

The wind varied between 20mph and nothing, but if you pick your moment

then a nice little zip along the berm could be had..... and sometimes not so nice-

the church of slope

A quick Sunday morning sermon, Psalm southerly 2 to 3, backing north westerly 6.... a silent prayer required when chucking off, uplifting miracles restore faith.

Here endeth the sermon!

Splendid Saturday

Saturday, and finally we're in business!

'I love you so much babe......'

'......let's have a special cuddle.'

and what starts with a discrete fondle, quickly moves on to.... 

a rear entry thrust-a-thon.....

the climatic beat-off is so frantic, his knob

comes off in his hand (just as mum had always warned)!

oh well, let's do some flying instead,

and with a superb sky and a lovely scalie.... does it get much better?

delicate release and pointy finger

to show the way to the lift!

whoosh!!

the grin of a man who didn't bin it!

D -list celebrity Professor Gordon Hillman

turns up for a quick dunk in the clubhouse hot tub

Minimoa gets away nicely!

and it has a jolly decent cruise around

good sky and good wind!

anybody seen my plane?

it's behind you!

cyborg face man ready to launch

whoosh!

what have we here then?

Lear we go....

launch stance shows promise.....

gowaaaaaaahn!

a bit too light and bit too breezy means

it's soon doing a tree slalom

let's just pause and admire the sky.....

stragglers from the jubilee flypast

how about that then!

a serene soarer deep from the bowels of Avicraft

ohh that sky!

good, solid british (white) calf muscle!

nice sky!!

that sky though!

shorts are on!

Minimoa moments before its commune with barbed wire 

full size Nimbus chases Mark down the hill

hmmmmmm, lovely bit of aspect ratio right there!

first landing pass is majestic!

unfortunately she falls short of the fence line

we send up the youngest and fittest

(which isn't setting much of a standard tbh)

split hinge is the only damage

it nestles happily, but the crew are on it

with a successful retrieve!

 half man, half plane

it's a breeze!

It's not often that a sea breeze works in a Kentish soarer's favour. With the mainland swathed in Sunday southerlies, Warden Bay and its easterly cliffs seems like an unlikely location to get some flying in. But as any die-hard slope addict knows, it's always worth packing the Alula when out on a family jaunt.

And so it was yesterday, with the Isle cooking nicely in late spring sun, the cool sea air got pulled onto, and straight up the muddy inclines.

Initially blessed with smooth lift for a good twenty minutes or so, the sun went in and soon after the wind suddenly turned through 90 degrees revealing its true heading and killing any prospect of further fun!