Category Archives: Club Update

Happy New Year everybody! I hope you’ve all had a great Christmas and maybe even received some modelling goodies. If you did please let me know what you got and tell me about them, I might feature them in a … Continue reading →

We always expect to lose a few flying sessions due to wind and/or rain through the winter months and that’s exactly what happened during what was a very mild November with a lot of rain. We were rained off on … Continue reading →

The October weather was definitely autumnal, we had some really good flying days with sunshine and light winds but also a lot of wet and windy weather that prevented flying. The temperatures were generally higher than average and the grass … Continue reading →

The start of September was rather windy but mostly dry, the first signs of autumn were upon us. Farmer George put lots of sheep in the flying field but they didn’t really cause us any problems and they were gone … Continue reading →

The hot dry weather of July continued into August and with temperatures in the mid-thirties at the field we sometimes wilted a bit but at least we didn’t have to mow the patch or contend with the bullocks. Members took … Continue reading →

Wow, July was certainly a hot one with England seeing a record high temperature of 40.3C on 19th July. On 1st July the bullocks were still in the field and members were wearing jackets but by the 24th an aerial … Continue reading →

June saw some lovely weather at the start of the month and we did lots of flying but later on in the month it turned very windy. A fairly long dry spell meant the patch grass didn’t grow very much … Continue reading →

This edition of Patch news is likely to be rather shorter than usual as I was only around for about half of the month and I’m writing this on 19th May in an attempt to get it ready for publication … Continue reading →