Orcrist - 2.5m aerobatic glider

Thanks for all the positive comments, One of the reasons for building the Orcrist was that I wanted an aerobatic model suitable for light winds. Today it was 5 to 10 mph...about as light as I'd consider slope soaring. In fact, I stopped on the way to Chapmans Pool and considered heading back home to avoid a wasted journey. I'm glad I pressed on because even in the 5 to 10 mph winds I was able to enjoy several fights totalling over an hour. You can see in the attached video that I'm struggling for height, but then the 10mph gusts lift it back into play.

Looks great mike, great work

It being New Years day and all that I thought it would be the perfect day to venture out and a bit of quality time with nature, and so I found myself at the top of a hill outside of Shaftesbury, it was pleasant, the sun was shining, there was a little gentile breeze and no one around... the reason no one was around was because someone had forgotten their wing joiner! When that some one returned an hour later, the cloud had rolled in, and the breeze and increase a fraction.

The Orcrist, proved that it was perfectly happy flying around in a gentile breeze, the kind of breeze that would have had me scratching around with the WildThing trying to gain some height just to do one loop or roll and then be working again to gain height, but with the Orcrist Mike seemed to be able to loop, roll, stall turn etc as much as he liked.

I'm impressed by the way it flew, or should that be the way Mike flew it? Either way the Orcrist looked very elegant in the air and precise through the manoeuvrers. But more than that, to design and build something that does so well what he wanted it to do is brilliant.

Thanks, Chris...and sorry to keep you waiting. The most annoying bit was that the Sun was shining all the time I drove home and back again. The good news it that I'll never do that again...until next time!