Thursday 3 July 2014

3 July, from the crew dude, part 2

Oops. The day didn't turn out as expected. Eric'll tell you about the flight. Here's what happened on the retrieve.

Google Maps got me there precisely ok. Then things got interesting. The glider was in a pretty soft field, and there was no farmer present, either with of without tractor. The best access to the glider was via a v. narrow country lane, and next to no room to turn the trailer around anywhere. But eventually that was done, then we stopped at the closest point near the glider, which was still 150 metres away. The ground was too soft to push the glider to the trailer, so we had to take the glider out piece by piece. Eventually then we could get the fuselage out, and into the trailer. Job done. But there's a fair amount of mud in the wheel well, so we'll rig it next to a hose and clean everything right out, ready for tomorrow!

Update - all done, and there was enough mud to jam up the tailwheel.  That's now all cleared, and ready to roll!

Tomorrow's RASP forecast is showing that any place to the east of here won't work.  Only to the west is available.  We'll see what happens at tomorrow's briefing regarding the weather!

Now for some pictures.

One part of the grid, from the other end of the field.

The other part of the grid.

There was enough wind today to get all the flags streaming out nicely!

The glider in the high crop.  OK, by this point we'd already pulled the wings and tailplane off… but it looks kinda nice (?) here...


Cheers

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