Scratchy Sunday afternoon at Liddington
After a night at Stonehenge, waiting for the sun to fail to appear, it was a late start for me, arriving at Liddington at 4ish where 4 or 5 wings were scratching about rather unconvincingly. I spoke to Fi, who was at Combe Gibbet with the Cloudbase team demoing the new Team 5 wings, but her report of crowds, collisions and not much lift persuaded me to join the scratchers.
Maybe I need to change my deodorant or something, but as soon as I got to the top of the hill, all but one of the scratchers decided to fly to the bottom and head off home. Andrew and I then enjoyed what he later described as the best conditions of the day; fairly smooth and enough depth to the lift to allow a foray out as far as the road, but only strong enough to get about 50 feet above take-off and no thermic activity. 40 minutes later the wind backed and slackened, effectively stopping play. The ever-keen Mike Long appeared to replace Andrew, but the wind never recovered and after a few sinky attempts we flew to the bottom..
Chris Williams
Chris Williams
