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3rd August at Selsley, perfect weather but
the air was a little lumpy, keeping the paragliders on the ground. Photos, my Pegase in the afternoon and Bill's ASW28 in the evening sky from Ade |
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The sky from Selsley with Ade's Discus
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Saturday 5th Chris Bishop's VTOL Foamy at Minchinhampton Saturday evening, 4 ailerons, 2 rudders and 2 elevators, Brushless and li-poly gives the models sparkling performance and the shape makes for easy hovering; it is very difficult to to see which way up it is. Right aileron is mixed to left top rudder and bottom right rudder, elevon mix for ailerons |
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Sunday 6th at Selsley, a good
morning of light lift on the west slope.
Photos My Pegaseby Mike the web
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10th August the evening sky with the sun shinning on the the river Severn, taken from Phil Wright's MiriJ at Selsley. | |
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Friday afternoon 11th August at Selsley,
Ade launching Bill's ASW28 |
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Saturday 12th at Selsley, Laurie's ASW28 | |
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Saturday 19th at Frocester
Ian's Lynx and Ade's carbon Blade enjoying the strong lift |
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20th August the Scale and PSS comp at Frocester. Good lift for the scale models, the PSS could have done with a little more. Photos Peter launching Brian's DG550 My Nyx coming out of the paraglider's bowl, a bit close, knees bent and leaning back |
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Richard's Gulp DS went well in the strong
lift. The ailerons are balsa/carbon sandwich, the camera flash has
highlighted the weave, they have a glass smooth finish and are very stiff. Steve Drake also markets a lighter version for pylon racing |
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Saturday 24th at Selsley, a few
sharp showers with the wind swinging from west to north west, making a
few slope changes necessary
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Sunday 25th at Frocester
The morning started with 4 MPH south westerly changing to westerly and increasing in strength. . Not very warm for August, notice Peter is wearing a coat and over-trousers. photos Ash26 |
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Laurie looking relaxed as his 1.6 Blade does a high speed pass for the camera |
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Bank holiday Monday at Selsley
A great day, some sun and a stiff breeze giving awesome lift at times, although with the wind on the point it was a little lumpy in the bowl. The breeze kept the paragliders away, a lone hang glider flew from the north slope starting well but struggled to penetrate forward to the point and into the good lift.. My Nyx was able to carry 2/3 ballast and went very fast- a little scary at times. photos
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The old Severn bridge from the air, by Phil Wright | |
