Its all about change

Well, in case you were wondering, I didn't get to fly the Ember when I was on holiday, the wind was far too strong even early morning and late evening every day. The strongest wind for flying it in is a light air movement, and we had more than that. (understatement).

Today...

A 180 degree turnaround in the wind direction today meant changing to the other side of the runway - twice. When I arrived we were on the South side. The wind soon increased in speed and the direction settled in the South East. All change, pick it all up and move to the North side. By the afternoon the wind changed and steadily moved to a Westerly direction. At around 15:30hrs the wind dropped to zero mph for about 10 minutes and I managed to get a flight in with the Ember. (Designed for indoor flying). Then it quickly built up speed from the North West to about 15 mph. Then it was time to go home. But I did fly all the aircraft I took up there today, and brought them home safely. Others weren't so lucky. Clive brought along his Harmony,a nice twin engined job which had an engine synchronising unit on board which used sensors one on each engine to monitor rpm.

Clive Halls twin engined aircraft met its demise on the tarmac - what a shame, nice plane.

Ian arrived later in the afternoon and flew this beautiful example of an F15 Eagle. Powered by a single Jetcat gas turbine it has bifurcated jet tubes to simulate twin engines. Also there is retractable under carriage with synchronused doors, wheel brakes, air brakes, flaps, and a canopy that opens using compressed air.

A fine example. This photo shows the wash-out on the wing tips.

A side view

I nearly forgot, I flew the Pico Jet today as well. First time since...must be last year.

I'll post more later...