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Behind the Jibbet

Near Witton windmill

After sneaking a flight in the LS3 (it was my duty day after all), when Colin kindly offered to fly the day course chappie for me, I was launched into a good thermal which took me to 3200ft.
By hopping across the cloud streets I managed RIV,NES,LAS,RIV in just under the hour to give me an average xc speed of 82kph.

A day that just kept getting better, well with thick overcast skies as we set the airfield up it was just as well. The Nimbus, Pegase, Libelle, ’15, Skylark and Janus rigged. I did about 200km after abandoning the original task at Cirencester as it looked flat ahead. Chris and Liz did RIV-Swindon and back without turning later in the day, it was later in the day as earlier Chris landed out.

A very quiet day, perhaps due to the earlier forecasts, but one with soaring opportunities throughout. The crosswind provided a tailwind component that followed us all day despite changing ends at half time but most people ended up with flights in the half hour range. Plenty of instructing and solo flying capacity was available and the repaired Skybrid ran perfectly on both drums.

On the hill down to Fosbury is this interesting piece of hedgerow…

The web of the Ermine Yponomeuta moths (google), unless corrected.