last friday or saturday or something

monster cloud with monster rain followed by naff all wind!

Dave's lovely wing gets a successful maiden

lots of impressive scalies grace the patch and carve the sky

'you can't beat the elegance of a large scale

high aspect glass ship'....

 ...says the Norse deity Odin as he packs away his third scale Paritech

Nimbus at the end of his day off from saving souls in Valhalla

 remember to fit floats if you anticipate landing out

bit of a boost

Some good air to be had today, the sun's warm and despite the high pressure

type clouds there are some decent thermals around....

This monster guffed off the ploughed field at about 3.45pm shortly before sun down

boost gliders are going to be THE thing in 2013

s.a.d.

With the shortening of daylight hours, Ray's not sure if he can face the misery of another winter. In fact only today he was spotted shopping for an escape to the afterlife....

Rorschach repair

Santa's embryo gets trampled by My Little Pony

prismaray

Bumpy and cold at a blowy Firle....

out of the gloom

The autumn flying drought continues, but Eric and Simon report back from an age long past, an epoch which lasted all of about forty eight hours; The British Summer!

Baldock readies itself for a day of aero towing

 Fox's flat field flight fettle

 radio fettle

failed servo fettle

 the starting grid

 men looking up

Jef's sortie was a-ok

but his Minimoa looks rather mini all of a sudden

joiner envy

load test leads to haemorrhoid rupture

Simon aspires to be part of the infamous 'Ghost Squadron'

the longman long walk

we arrive to find nil wind

Paul lands out and undergoes an epic walk of shame. Back on the summit

he gives up, lays back and indulges in the day's third

session of testicular self examination

the hoards of paragliders at Firle evade enemy surveillance

 the sky's free for Simon

 off with the Luna

 onto the Skop'

 finishing with the twin Kestrels

 on approach

ready for a Longman stab 

 Mr Yakimoto from Okinawa is visiting for the day, coincidentally he also flies a Skorpian

meanwhile back at the car park, Simon is just about to mark his territory

when he notices something in the bushes

now some people may consider foamies are only worth urinating on, but not these chaps...

she's coming home with us; that is unless anyone

wants to claim it as a lost model !

work and weather

The glorious art of slope soaring has been rather curtailed of late in the Goodwind camp, rest assured that normal service will be resumed over the next week or so.....thank you for your patience.

sunday delivers

the ultimate bumper sticker

 good to see Jason and the Needle...it's on everyone's wish list!

Limit at the ready 

conditions are too blustery though

Pilatus at the ready

off she goes...

over the strip

a bit of colour in the gloom

to infinity and beyond!

chewing the cud

It's been a bit quiet round here of late, but last Thursday brought us the Autumn's first chilly session. For some reason nobody could fathom, more talking than flying was the order of the afternoon.

mowing the strip

Simon's recon' Fox......mmmmm Foxy!

 old pro cg finger tip test on a windy hill side

looks about right

but with so little wind we'll wait for another day

 paraglider and cow's arse

 cow nip

approach from their blind spot....

WHOOOOSH!

'did I hear / feel / smell something?'