Rev Kite Team Notes, The Decorators

The swifts have finally arrived in Hackney and at Blackheath.  Their fast/slow interactions in flight are an inspiration every year and their screaming calls the signature of summertime.A light wind exercise on Blackheath today.  The premise being that the full vented B1.5 can be flown in light breezes with extra input from the flier and that th...

The trees in Greenwich park have turned full spring green in the last four weeks.It was a quiet day on Blackheath today compared to the rigours of the previous 3 weekends.Mid vented 1.5s with race rods were good to start with at 10:00am but the windspeed gradually freshened over about 2 hours so we changed to full vented 1.5s and finally Xtra Vented 1.5s...

Arrived Saturday midday and the strong westerly breeze rolling across the buildings was not really 'flyable' so as it was not a day that was formally part of the event we retired early to a late lunch. ;-) Sunday was sunny but the wind, although lighter, was still from the west and given the available space on the beach it was far from clean.  W...