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These are two E Soaring Gliders.
The red one was made by WSA's Nigel Bennett. They both use a motor and propeller to gain height, then maintain it by the use of Thermal activity.
E-soarers like these are are used in the competitions run by the Wessex Competition League and just for fun as an alternative to using a winch or bungee for launch.
 Competition Report 16th August
Wessex Competiton League
A happy band of thermaleers from four clubs in the area, assembled at the Salisbury MFC on Sunday the 16th of August for our last but one Wessex League E/Soaring event of the year. The site is superb, a mown square surrounded by growing crops, which we largely managed to avoid. A caravan for our esteemed scorer, Nancy Kessell, and even a loo!
There were some power flyers from the Salisbury club, and we shared the time with them, flying for about 45 minutes each and then watching aerobatics. It worked very harmoniously, without any clashes, or damage to any models.
The weather was breezy but thermals a plenty, and 2m models look very small at 1500 ft or so. There were 10 entrants in the 600RES class which was won by Martin Burr flying his new (well donated for free!!) Swift 1.8. Followed by Rick Churchill and Gordon Moore.
The open class (5 entants) was won by Martin again, flying his 2.6m Tango. 2nd was myself with my 3m Wessexel and 3rd Gordon again flying the same Mini Bird 2m. Well not quite the same because Gordon swapped the entire drive train between the two classes. Motor, battery and ESC!!.
Many thanks to the Salisbury club for allowing us to use their superb site, and to Nancy for keeping the scores.
The last event is on September the 26th.
Best regards,
Nigel.
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