More Beans Needed – PSS Comp October 2024

by Dave Goodenough The last Sunday in October dawned ominously, a rheumy eye cast out of the window and o’er the forecast showed a distinct lack of the essential ingredient that gives us slopies the will to fettle models and foregather for PSS action – wind.  Muttering darkly, I prepped vittles, loaded the car and
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Power Scale Soaring Competition Sunday 27th October 2024

Ant Jervis is organising our third PSS Club Competition. There will be a prize for any club member who enters the best looking Power Scale Soaring Model on the day. The slope direction is dependent on the wind. See our website for details of location, and  wind direction of each slope. The competition usually kicks off at
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AGM 10th November 2024 Winking Man Pub

It’s AGM time, so here is an email we all got from Keith, our erstwhile long standing secretary UNFORTUNATELY WITH VERY LITTLE NOTICE THE AGM HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THIS IS THE EMAIL FROM OUR ERSTWHILE CLUB SECRETARY KEITH RATHBONE “Dear Club Members This email is to advise that the annual meeting scheduled for Sunday, 10
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LMMGA Scale Glider Weekend 2024

Herman Melville said it first! Stay with me for a line or two; ‘Moby Dick’ came to mind over the scale competition weekend and with a small change, covers the iniquities perpetrated.  ‘’There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the air, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath…’’ 
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Scale Glider Weekend

This weekend (3rd and 4th August 2024), we will be hosting the Scale Glider meeting at one of our slopes dependent on the weather. Our competition host Ant Jervis will be welcoming entrants from all over the UK. Scale Gliders will be welcome to fly their scale machines on Saturday and Sunday. Usually Ant organises
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The Flotsam of impolite society…

Our slope magician and waver of the weather wand, Ant Jervis, once again found a hole in the hitherto clarty conditions and delivered us of fine weather, cloudless sky and a useful breeze. Various rogues and ne’er-do-wells foregathered, depositing foam, plastic and tape-wrapped bolides onto the tussocky ‘Gate’ pits. Some were looking for glory, others
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Mark Ollier Photography “Shoots” to the Next Level

Mark Ollier has been a member of Leek and Moorland Model Gliding Association since he was in the womb, or thereabouts. For those of you who don’t know, Mark was eased into model flying by Ivan Bradbury, who was a teacher originally in the Leek area, when he was many years younger. Mark is an
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PSSing About!

There are times when the stars align, someone bends a knee and chants Wiccan oaths, because Samhain is drawing near.  Was it Ant Jervis, or were others arrayed in the Pagan circle?  Whatever the reason, the last Sunday in October dawned clearer than expected, the forecasted harsh wind had calmed and the sun shone.  The
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2023 Scale Day Flying Competition at the Gate by Dave Goodenough

August Antics Come Summertime, or what passes for it, our stalwart committee members task the inestimable Mr Jervis with holding the annual scale competition at whichever slope happens to suit the prevailing breeze, wind or howling gale.  This year we had a washout Saturday, wisely cancelled early, with the Sunday left as default for those
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The New LMMGA Shop is “open all hours”

I forget whose catch phrase was “we never shut”, but such is the wonder of technology that our new online shop never shuts. In the past we have offered various items of merchandise for sale at the AGM, which has proved quite popular, but now we decided to move into the 21st century and offer
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