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LOCH PARK ADVENTURE CHAPTER TWO

On Saturday evening 15th of August Ian Ross, James Mark and myself where again at Loch Park, Drummuir, Hopefully to give a flying demonstration to the people attending the Raft Race earlier. unfortunately the wind was quite strong with heavy gusting making flying almost impossible, James who had been there most of the day helping with the raft race was egged on by loyal supporter Andy Milne and his wife to show us all how to fly off water, which James promptly did. but from the discussion we had later when everyone had left he decided shortly after take-off that this was not a good idea, despite battling with the wind he managed a short flight and a acceptable landing but when he turned to taxi back to the landing stage the wind decided to flip him over, "rescue number one". when all the people were away, we decided to stay a little longer to see if the wind would drop, it lost some of it's ferociousness  for a short time in which I decided to fly the Catalina. We were all surprised how well it handled the wind and I had a real good flight and a good landing, but during the taxi back to the landing stage my speed controller's cut-out overheated and stopped.
James set off in the rescue boat and this gave Benji the Labrador  just the excuse
 he needed, he had been desperate to retrieve something all afternoon.
"The Race was On". Benji set off in double quick time not giving James a chance,
 only to act as reserve back-up.

               

Despite the lack of good flying weather and the tooth holes in the nose of the Catalina we had a good blether, a good laugh and the drive to want to do it all again. Hopefully at a club event with a reasonable turnout of members.

(I hope you have enjoyed this short account "the editor")

 

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