Hitler's foamie

Hopefully we'll have some south westerlies soon...

forecast fail

Saturday's forecast has all the promise of a mellow, kicked back, laid back session at Holly. When the troops arrive at midday, all's on target with a mild easterly that promises to come good by five o'clock.

In the mean time it's DLG and electric assist to get Deryck and Paul up and to a workable height and grab a few passing thermals. There's a few out landings to be had, but hey! come five o'clock we'll be laughing.

Ray turns up at about 4.59pm and leans into the non-existent breeze, if anything it's going north goddammit! He errs on the side of caution and toys stay in the car. Meanwhile Paul relies on Deryck to mark any rising air the day has left in it. The Radian shimmies up in the last almighty guff of the day, and the two of them head back, and to the left, back and to the left, b a c k a n d t o t h e l e f t and find themselves soaring to a good height well away from any slope lift.

Oh well, you can't win them all. If the weather continues in this vein we'll be in for that long forgotten BBQ summer after all!!

lear jet

A small gathering at Bopeep takes cover behind the bushes, Simon has his Lear Jet ready for a maiden in the strong conditions.....

radio lockout led to the Lear's untimely demise

rumour has it that the model will fly again

easter funday

Pete's brought along a tasty little delta fresh off the building board

West Country Jim takes control of the situation

wind break required to check cg....

Paul elbows in for launch duties, he's always keen to grip

something long and hard

we draw a veil on the flight, Jim leaves in disgust....toys too

big to be thrown out of the pram

'yo bad boy, ya wanna put that aerial up before tossing yo Blade'

Colin takes no notice, he's slipped into another horny haze....

but manages to land at his feet regardless

Deryck's forgotten where he left the Pledge

but after a quick buffing, ends the day with a good thrashing

Trev's arrows

Superb model from Trev. Hopefully with a bit of tweaking, future flights will be more sustained.

wet rain, angry skies

today gave us an overcooked sky

Xeno- it's a winner

back of the front

of the 4 flyers on the hill, three were bidding for this on Ebay

triumphant Eric takes to the air

landing interupted by cow poo

beware- cloud suck!

Ray senses hail on the way

spring scale

It's bumpy close in today as the wind pulls round ssw, but this doesn't stop Paul maidening his new Ventus.

ready for some quality lift reaming

success!

Under the deft guidance of quality thumbmanship and Multiplex jiggery pokery, the Ventus shrugs off the lumpy air with a refined whistle. We hope to see this impressive thoroughbred making the most of those spring time thermals again some time soon.

first outlanding of the season

The honour of the first outlanding of the season goes to Ray, who sends out his two chicken boys to retrieve the wreckage....

handy site

Here's a useful link for your favorites....

weather station links

Scroll down the page to get a selection of weather stations around Kent with regular (almost live) updates.

Stations include Hollingbourne and Fant, both good pointers for the mighty mighty Thurnham!

seasons salutations

The new season starts here, a warm wind means Winter's on the way out and months of sunshine and thermals await us!

the lane foliage has been

comprehensively mullered, all the easier to park up against!

start of season salutations with the customary pensioner man poon parade

Eric and his Terry cover up Ray's excited fist thrashing-

it's been a while since he's seen the sun

see, a real man knows exactly where he is

with a 7 cell nicad pack and a speed 400

and the Terry (bless it's little cotton socks) is none the wiser either

Free Bird, plenty more of those down Rochester High Street

on a Saturday evening