Phil's Starlight on a perfect October afternoon, 3 MPH of  warm breeze and plenty of lift

11/10/09 

  Guy's Chris Foss Centiphase

  22/06/09 Phil Wright's aerial photos

26/02/09 Doug's bringing his Blanik in for a nice controlled landing

Doug's K8 on a nice suymers day. Looks great...

A view out towards the Forest of Dean from Selsley.

The "tump" (prehistoric burial mound) is on the left of frame and the "Millenium Stone" is on the right.

Andy's 1/4 scale Pegase coming in for a great landing

1:1 scale Skylark flying over the common. A fantastic sound and sight on a summers day.

Phil's Pegase landing in a hayfield (or that's what it looks like) The grass is about 18" high on Selsley at the moment (June) because the cows aren't out yet

Phil's Pegase on a flypast

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Phil's Pegase again

Phil's Pegase being launched, but Phil's being a bit shy and hiding behind the gaggle of fliers

A Zeitgeist (I think) being launched from Selsley.

I had one of these back in the 1970's - it's a beautiful flier.

Andy's ASH26 sailing past on a fly-by

Ade's Discus2 flying at Selsley on Monday evening 

Guy's Highlight on very nice afternoon, blue sky and cattle grazing and no paragliders, what more could you ask for? 

Phil's Pegase flying in the evening sun, notice the the shadow of the wing on fuselage

Andy Westgate's ASW17 at Selsley on a perfect Sunday morning

Richard's launching his Bard on  a  summer's day

Bryan's ASK18 on Wednesday evening

Barry's GWS Spitfire, photo by John Caddick 

Nick's Multiplex Flamingo on hazy afternoon

As Good as it gets, Phil's HLG on the second day of spring enjoying a light breeze 

Peter's Discus doing a close pass for the camera on the western facing slope

  03/12/06  

Autumn trees on the NW slope of Selsley.

Oh - and Phil flying his Pagase...

New 03/12/06  

A Highlight cruising by at sunset. You can see May Hill in the distance.

New 03/12/06 Not a cloud in the sky...

Phil's practicing for the limbo comp with his Calypso?

Phil's electrically assisted HLG thermalling at dusk

Andy's Gemini on a nice flyby.

Phil the foto's Pegase. A lovely well mannered model. ....Hmmm, there's a beginning of a joke about the owner, but I won't go there :-)

Beautiful sky photo over Selsley.

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Phil the foto, (aka Phil the fridge) on a flyby with his DLG.

Phil's taken most of the photo's on this website (cheers Phil) ......so if Phil's flying, who took the photo? doo-doo-doo-dooo (spooky music time!)

Lovely aerial shot of Selsley Common.
This is the North slope and we fly from the "tump", which is just visible as the dark area above the nose cone. The slope drops away to the road on the left and you can see the large landing area to the right of the picture.
Photo from Phil Wirght's Miraj

Ahhh, this is the life! A lovely summer's day on Selsley and Phil's Pegase is circling in a thermal....

1/3 scale Fox. Needs a good old blow to fly well

When launching, throw the model downwards, with the wings level. ...Or that's what you're supposed to do anyway :-)

.... Len Launching John's 6 Metre Nimbus 4

Phil the photos newly acquired Nyx. So how did he manage to fly the model, take the photo and dodge the paragliders, all at the same time?

p.s - the paragliders are a lot further away than it looks in the photo.

Phil (the photo) said "just" fly closer, then bank it over towards the camera. And on the 15th attempt I actually managed to do it!

Andy's 1/3 scale Skylark takes to the air again. Looks fantastic...

Maiden flight of Paul's Flair K8. Looks great in the air. ...Nice one Paul!

The picture was taken at Selsey on 24/09/2004. During the course of the afternoon the choppy 15mph wind gave way to gentle smooth lift allowing paragliders and a hang glider to take to the air.

Michael Pearce on Selsey at sunset

Something a little different. Mike bought this Eagle as an unfinished ancient secondhand project. After several unsuccessful attempts to get it flying it finally took to the air. However it did need a V-tail and flat (instead of curled up wingtips) to make it fly properly. Paintjob was done using an airbrush, 3 or 4 shades of brown paint and simple feather shaped masks made out of cardboard. Pigeons take drastic avoiding action as soon as they get a glimpse of it in the air!

Alan again, this time with a Flair(?) K8

Alan's 1/3 scale Minimoa over Selsley.

Andy's new Salto from a Pat Teakle kit. What can you say? ...it really does look superb.
Mind you, the pilot looks like he might need some new seatbelts ...see right.

Air to air photo? Is it real or is it a model? Nope, it's the model above with the photo taken as it climbs away from a launch.

Andy Westgates Crested Wren in the air. Looks superb...

Star of the Scale/PSS comp was Doug's brand new Whirlwind. Around 6ft wingspan, the fuz is a basic box, clad in blue foam then covered in brown paper. Wings are veneered foam. Looked absolutely superb!

A closer view of the line up.

Pete's 110 inch Hercules coming in for an enforced landing due to lack of lift!

Close up on Andy Westgates Wren. Really nice...
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