16 March 2023

it's coming!

 Slightly non-compliant weather conditions recently.... but it is warming up!

Let's look forward to some more sessions like this one from last summer...



it's looking floaty




Nimbus strains at the leash




it's caught scent of a thermal...




and she's off!








catching a bit of water ballast refreshment




whoosh!





boink!



noyce!


19 December 2022

15 December 2022

x bow

 Tricky enough to film, let alone fly!!


14 December 2022

Camber!

 

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


13 December 2022

2020

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


12 December 2022


Anyone else remember the summer?


04 September 2022

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-






10 July 2022

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!




12 June 2022

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