POWER FLYING DIARY

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Brighton to Norman's Bay - speed flying.

I had to wait till about 5.30 today before taking off as it was pretty gusty all day up till then. I planned to fly to a place out past past Eastbourne called Norman's Bay. I had never been there but it looked pretty flat on the map so I reckoned that there would be plenty of landing fields there.

This flight was kind of an experiment. I wanted to do a downwind dash and just see how fast I could cover the ground with a tailwind of about 15 mph. The flight was 25 miles in total and my ground speed was 60 mph with the bar in and about 6,000 revs on the tach.

I landed in a nice big flat field at Norman's Bay. The experiment was a success. It showed me that with a nice tailwind and a bit of speed you can really motor along with the Wasp/K4 combo. It gives me more ideas for doing fairly big trips in the future.

The landing field is the big one in the middle of the photo, left of the road.