Saturday was probably one of the hottest days at Dishforth this year, with a recorded 36 degrees on the car outside temperature gauge!
There were 3 silent flyers and 4 power flyers attended today, the site was in good condition but there was a lot of activity off the runways as the farmer was mowing and bailing the grass, this affected the choice of flight line for the Glider pilots who ended up on the North South runway quite a way down towards the hangers.
Andy Shutt and Paul Wellacott were flying their 2 meter competition gliders trying to better their flight times set last week, the wind was coming directly over the fence from the A1 which made conditions tricky and low level lift was very disturbed. Mike Harris was Flying his favoured ‘T’ tail models and had some good flights, but by 1pm the ground was so heat soaked that lift was very sparse.
The power pilots had a good day too, as there was a steady breeze and little to no gusting the power flight line was busy, the only disruption to the day was when the wind swung later on which forced a change to flying across the main runway and using the end of the “dirty” runway.
all in all it was a full day of flying and flying concluded at around 4:30pm.
Photos below taken by Ken Tulloch
