Wednesday 22nd. Wednesday turned out to be a mainly cloudy day, but with occasional sunny intervals, the conditions making for a flying day but not particularly a soaring one, the wind being a light to moderate S'ly. 29 ATs were flown off runway 20, with the holiday course members continuing to add to their […] Read More...
Addendum to previous Blog. For those of you with an engineering bent, Ken Arkley has provided a photo of the gear train in a Bristol Hercules engine of the type that was demonstrated to the Northern's competitors last week by owner Patrick Smart whose father flew Bristol Hercules engined Halifax bombers in WW2. Get your […] Read More...
Tuesday 14th. Initially, a light N'ly with a medium level overcast meant that flying could commence around 1100 hrs from runway 02, although the prospect of limited lift, except to the NW meant that there was no scoring task for the Northern's competitors although a free distance task was open to them. In the event, a […] Read More...
Friday 10th. The Atlantic low centred to the west of the UK, produced a day of overcast skies, poor visibility, light winds that backed from the S to ESE and occasional light rain at Sutton, the rain amounting to 1.5 mm over the day. As a consequence, there was no flying during the day, while the Friday […] Read More...
Wednesday 8th. A first flight of the day saw Andy Parish and Mr O'Neil confirm a low base to the overcast that had spread in overnight on a light, mainly N'ly, flow, so flying was suspended awaiting some improvement in the conditions. This break in flying did have a beneficial side, however, as a number […] Read More...
Friday 3rd. Friday continued the trend of the earlier part of the week, the light to moderate N'ly wind bringing in a low overcast that prevented any flying, although, similar to Thursday, the cloud did break up in the late afternoon, too late to allow any flying to take place. The non-flying weather did, […] Read More...
Wednesday 1st. The synoptic situation hadn't changed much from previous days, with the result that the moderate to fresh and gusty N'ly continued to blow and bring in copious amounts of low cloud from the North Sea, the temperature struggling to get into double figures. Not surprisingly there was no flying. Thursday 2nd. More of […] Read More...
