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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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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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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Fly 4 Fun Competition (7th May 2023)

A really big thank you to Dave Goodenough, our newly appointed scribe for RCM&E Magazine. You have no doubt read one or two of his excellent articles in the Mag, so you will know that he is not only of our very own members but also an excellent author. Here is his report of the
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PSS Competition (October 2022)

For the first time for about 5 years we held a Power Scale Club Competition under the auspicious leadership of Peter Anthony Jervis, our tireless administrator extraordinaire on 30th October 2022. A good time to hold a competition because:- So, we all assembled to take part at 10.30am as invited (some were late and missed
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LMMGA Large Scale Event (2019)

by Bob Jennings For more pictures, see the Competition Photographs Page The last line of Keith’s original email for this event went ‘Fingers crossed for fine  weather and light winds’. Well, one out of two was pretty good going.  Arriving early afternoon on the Saturday there was already a good selection of scale gliders  and their
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