Post by norfolkdick on Aug 21, 2012 9:50:52 GMT
Greetings Kitists,
I attended Hunstanton Kite Festival this past Sunday, it is a one day event held on a school playing field a few hundred yards from the sea at Hunstanton. The event is held in connection with a classic car show.
Although there is no affinity at all that I have ever been able to see between the two interests, this has always been the format and there is strangely no clash or conflict of interest between the two.
The weather was 100% on our side, in the morning the wind was about 5mph and it got up to about seven or eight by the afternoon, the wind was constant and devoid of any gusts. I put up a ROK to about 200ft at 0900hrs and took it down at 1700hrs and I doubt it moved no more than 10 feet all day.
Dark Star and team Spectrum were both performing in the arena and flew just wonderful displays, in the case of Dark star (Brian Cantle) he flew his three Kestral kites so perfectly equidistant they appeared to be stacked, he commented that he thought the wind (for those kites) to be nearly perfect.
Brian Cantle has to be one of the fastest learners and most dedicated flyers that I know, he treated us to a helicopter display that was just stunning, he has now mastered 3-D flying and can whizz his helicopter over the sky anywhere he chooses, it seems to make no difference to him whether it is upright or inverted and he made a long sweeping pass with the helicopter about 3 feet off the ground inverted!
The Great Ouse Kite Flyers (my home club) provided the single line entertainment and Jez entertained the crowds with his Rev. skills.
We all retired to the seafront after the festival to eat our 'cod and taters' on the sea wall beside the beach in the hot unbroken evening sunshine; a cracking day!
Regards
Dick
I attended Hunstanton Kite Festival this past Sunday, it is a one day event held on a school playing field a few hundred yards from the sea at Hunstanton. The event is held in connection with a classic car show.
Although there is no affinity at all that I have ever been able to see between the two interests, this has always been the format and there is strangely no clash or conflict of interest between the two.
The weather was 100% on our side, in the morning the wind was about 5mph and it got up to about seven or eight by the afternoon, the wind was constant and devoid of any gusts. I put up a ROK to about 200ft at 0900hrs and took it down at 1700hrs and I doubt it moved no more than 10 feet all day.
Dark Star and team Spectrum were both performing in the arena and flew just wonderful displays, in the case of Dark star (Brian Cantle) he flew his three Kestral kites so perfectly equidistant they appeared to be stacked, he commented that he thought the wind (for those kites) to be nearly perfect.
Brian Cantle has to be one of the fastest learners and most dedicated flyers that I know, he treated us to a helicopter display that was just stunning, he has now mastered 3-D flying and can whizz his helicopter over the sky anywhere he chooses, it seems to make no difference to him whether it is upright or inverted and he made a long sweeping pass with the helicopter about 3 feet off the ground inverted!
The Great Ouse Kite Flyers (my home club) provided the single line entertainment and Jez entertained the crowds with his Rev. skills.
We all retired to the seafront after the festival to eat our 'cod and taters' on the sea wall beside the beach in the hot unbroken evening sunshine; a cracking day!
Regards
Dick
