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Video/Photos
Recent photos Weston Park Airshow
ttps://www.flickr.com/photos/phil-ebley/sets/72157654769381012
https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil-ebley/sets/72157654769381012
My videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/philscsa/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuMWKu3Q-lxjXMSeWSgiWLg
GMFC Videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOJw26aVYS3xW4PJAW6xS-A
MSA videos on the Flickr pages
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123634149@N03/sets/
News
A glider pilot took
his own life when he crashed the aircraft into the
ground, an inquest has heard.
Cotswold Gliding Club member Michael Hugh England, 57,
had left a suicide note before the crash on 14 June, the
hearing in Gloucester heard.
He borrowed a glider from the club, circled the airfield
several times and took a steep dive to the ground at
Aston Down Airfield, Gloucestershire.
The Gloucestershire Coroner's Court inquest was
adjourned until November.
The suicide letter was found by police at Mr England's
home in School Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham.
Mr England died of multiple injuries at the scene, the
inquest was told.
The rest of the photos are at
Solar impulse
Live YouTube
Web site
Why is it stuck in Japan see video
Ocean Crossing To
Hawaii : Second Attempt Aborted.
Will the third time be lucky?
The flight was postponed on June 23rd due to worsening
weather conditions above the Pacific.
Endeavoring to reach Hawaii from Japan to encourage the
use of clean technologies, the solar powered aircraft of
Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will attempt the
longest exploration leg of the Solar Impulse’s
Round-The-World mission. We are now looking for a
weather window.
André will venture into the unknown: this flight will be
demanding and challenging particularly given its
duration: 120 hours on solar power only. It is a feat
never accomplished before in the world of aviation.
Click for larger image
F3K
SILENT FLIGHT NATIONALS 29th-31st August, 2015
Wetlands Retford Notts
DN22 8PN
Following the news that RAF Cranwell will definitively
not be available for the SF Nats 2015 the venue will now
be Wetlands, on the traditional August Bank Holiday
weekend. Camping will be available but dogs are not
allowed.
Briefly the daily schedule is:
Saturday F5J F5B 100S
Sunday F3B F3J 2M eSoaring
Monday F3K Open eSoaring.
F3B
Dates
League 3 - Wetlands -
27th/28th June.
Reserve date possibly 4th/5th July.
League 4 - Wetlands - 25/26th July.
Reserve date possibly 1st/2nd August.
League 5 - RAF Cranwell - NATIONALS - 30th August ONLY.
League or Nationals Reserve 1 - TBC - 26/27th September.
League or Nationals Reserve 2 - TBC - 17/18th October.
If required a possible further date on the 24/25th
October may be flown. This is the weekend the clocks go
back.
To enable as many contests as possible to take place, a
decision will be made on the Friday evening preceding
the contest or reserve date regarding the day (Saturday
or Sunday), or whether the event will run (i.e weather
call). All reserve dates are dependent on sites being
available and enough competitors being able to attend.
F3F
Aug Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd F3F English Open Whitesheet, Wilts F3F Martin Newnham - martinnewnham@btinternet.com
Dates
14th June BMFA L3 - Scotland
5th July Ebor Electric Fly-in - YMAS
19th July BMFA L4 - Wales
1st-2nd Aug Slope Glide - Wales
22nd-23rd Aug English F3F Open - Whitesheet
11th-13th Sept Welsh Open
27th Sept BMFA League 5 - Long Mynd
26th / 27th / 28th Sept - Welsh Open
18th Oct BMFA League 6 - Eastbourne
25th Oct - Reserve Date
Esoaring
My next evvent eSoaring (South 3) - Sunday July 26th - East Worldham - Hampshire
- Sunday June 14th - East Worldham - Hampshire
events list
http://www.esoaring.net/index.php?page=competition-calendar-2014-2
Barcs Forum http://www.barcs.co.uk/forums/forum/47-electric-soaring/
http://www.barcs.co.uk/forums/forum/47-electric-soaring/
Esoaring forum
http://www.esoaring.net/forum/search.php?search_id=active_topics&sid=e38cd95a8259f58c150222c92837d0a3
Events http://www.esoaring.net/index.php?page=competition-calendar-2014-2
F3J/F5J news
Sunday 28th F5J Little Bentley, Colchester, Essex ELG X Peter Mitchell - peter.mitchell12@btinternet.com
http://www.flyquiet.co.uk/smf/index.php?board=2.0
BARCS FORUM
Interglide 27 - 28th Oxford Marsh Gibbon
Interglide
Starts 27/06/2015 at 09:00
Ends 28/06/2015 at 17:00
VenueTudor Farm, Edgcott
Location Tudor Farm, Marsh Gibbon Road, Edgcott, HP18 0UA
Summary £30 entry fee. Entry via Interglide website.
Disciplines Soaring
Website http://www.interglide.co.uk/
Gloucvester MFC
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOJw26aVYS3xW4PJAW6xS-A
Download 2015 membevrship form
More photos at Flickr this is the 3rd album
Dangerous team video
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10203439922593738&set=o.1433627446895914&type=2&theater
Scrapheap Challenge Teams
The Gurrminators
The England Squad
and
Team Dangerous
South Cotswold Soaring Association
Face Book, I think I have
found a way for SCSA to look at our Facebook page without
getting into the silly Facebook friends thing
Please contact me for details, Phil
Club Meeting June 17th
Bryan Tucker was the winner of the SCSA Cross country comp,
2nd Pete Wolf, 3rd Mick Sheperd.
Tim's model was found at Lady Kathrine Berkeley school,
miles away from Frocester???
Next Club Meeting: 15th July Minchinhampton Common -
Glider Golf
See Facebook and Flickr for the latest SCSA news
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Forum http://www.barcs.co.uk/forums/topic/3271-cotswolds-slopers/page-93
Malcolm's midweek specials
One event being considered, a visit to Selsley common for scale flying
Selsley common is a great place to fly large scale gliders,
there is room to land full sized aircraft, about 300 metres
of flat grass land.
details of the site can be found here
Selsley site
MSA Fun Events results
Web Caa>m showing the river Championship tables updated
16/06/2015
http://www.malvernsoaringassociation.co.uk/tables2015.html
updated
Events
http://www.malvernsoaringassociation.co.uk/cal15.html
Fish Meadow photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil-ebley/sets/72157644747411631/ more added 21/06/2015
Malvern Hills photos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil-ebley/sets/72157648123258228/
MSA members at other venues
https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil-ebley/sets/72157648340517165/ New photos added 16/06/2015
Malvern photos and Videos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123634149@N03/with/13954087231/
Tuesday flying at Fish Meadow, the lift was very strong with just a light breeze
We had a very relaxed day of pleasant flying
I got to over 2300 feet on one flight but struggled to make use of the lift many times and landed early
Malcolm broke his funfly ploughing into the ground at high speed while trying to do a bunt, then complained because the plywood split
Two of our members towed up a balsawood glider see the video on YouTube, this was a light Balsawood model with a wing loading of just 5 oz/ft
A para glider dropped in on us, he left the Malvern hills and failed to find enough lift on a Cross country
Flying Diary
I flew my Electra on Thursday, it was flying well, but after
dethermalling both flaps jammed and both servos burnt out.
You can see by the flight log how the voltage was dragged
down by the load, I came down with full brake but this did
not draw much current, the flight pack was down to 9.5 volts
when I landed
I will have to sand off the wipers or wing, has anybody had
a similar problem?
Phil
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Fore sail
Fore Sail
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