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Friday, September 28, 2012

Sporting at Perran

 Michel sets off on his second flight of the day on his Sport 2 135

What a cracking day..... as the front cleared along with the rain we headed to Perranporth with a roof full of hangies and high hopes.  Conditions were ideal and after a quick test the air flight we got Ian L (Bristol) up and away on the Falcon to get Perran sussed before letting him loose on his new Wills Wing Sport 2 175.  After three nice flights and landings and having finished his hill conversion off (congratulations) he took time out to rig his new wing whilst Kaz got some nice flying in on her hangy.

With Michel turning up with his Sport 2 135 and Phil L with his new  Sport 2 155 we had the full range on site! Michel wasted no time in getting into the air as soon as conditions were good enough and put in a couple of super flights making it all look far to easy.  He has a nice feel for the hanger which came through in both his top landings which were very nice.  Best of it was I got the chance to test fly the new wings and pleased to say they were all perfect straight from the box.

Ian L gets his Sport 2 175 off the ground in fine style

 and quickly looked very happy on it

Ian got his chance and made a fine launch on his new wing settling in quickly to the lighter handling, higher performance and more subtle pitch of the wing.  After a good 15 minutes it was time to get him in and it is fair to say it did take a few attempts . However, each one got a bit better and by the fourth we had him back on terra firma with a big smile quickly followed in by Michel as a rain shower headed our way.

Phil set to go on his Liquorish Allsort (Sport 2 155)

With the brief shower gone it was Phil L's turn to join in the fun and after waiting for a little more breeze to return he put in his first flight on his new wing.  Again he made it look easy and quickly got the measure of the wing and was soon playing with it.  15 minutes later he brought her in for a cracking top landing first time, excellent.

 setting up for a classic top landing (see did not even mention the correction, oops!)

 By the end of play Michel had two flights to his credit and about an hours airtime and no overshoots, Ian also had two in the bag and had learnt a lot about top landing approaches and Phil put in three and only overshot once.
 Ever smiling Michel had a ball, and chuffed he should be

I rounded off the day with some fun flying on Phils glider (thank you) which once again confirmed what great wings the Sport 2's are :))
 happy bunnies all round

Quote of the day " I like to get in this way" 
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