Date:
Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:13 PM
Subject:
Fabulous Friday
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
A
beautiful spring day, perfect blue sky, no clouds to
reveal where the thermals were hiding but they were
out there.
Apart
from the notable absence of Judith Smith and Charles
Hoch, most of the Friday crew were present. Bob Turner
as Level 2, also Barry McCarthy, Arthur Mailey, John
Nestor, Shane Tuck, Bob Hainsworth, Kevin Rodda and
John Knox as usual with his sidekick Pat. Lindsay
Mitchell was there to rig Blanik XQ and de-rig GYK, he
soon rounded up most of us to help, leaving Bob Turner
and Arthur to take CQC down to 12 where John launched
Arthur for a flight of 1 hour 40 minutes. This proved
to be the flight of the day in a club aircraft, later
beaten by Kevin in his orange rocket who achieved
1:49.
Once
XQ was fitted with her wings and the tail feathers
preened, the whole gang went to de-rig GYK and put her
in the container, after which Lindsay was left alone
to complete the work on XQ, only calling for help to
tow it to the flight line for a test flight.
The
early morning power flyers using 12 were tailing off
and the wind moving round to 06 by the time Lindsay
released the rest of us, so the pie cart was taken out
to 06 where we set up camp. Tony Esler arrived to take
over the tug duties from John, much to Pat's relief as
he had been in our care all morning, out of sight of
his master. QA was towed out, and Kevin's glider
followed by XQ. Barry and John Nestor launched in QA
and stayed up for 1:22, Arthur eventually landed CQC
on 06 and I climbed in but could only achieve 42
minutes, after that it was all shorter flights except
for Bert Persson who took QA up again with Neil
Schaefer for 45 minutes.
CQC
and QA were put to bed quite early due to lack of
demand, Shane Tuck and John Nestor continued to fly in
XQ for circuit practice.
The
stats:
CQC
2 flights, 2:22,
QA
2 flights, 2:07,
WUC
1 flight, 1:49,
XQ
5 flights, 1:10.
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