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Days 8 & 9 (Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd) of the Icarus Cup at Lasham Gliding Club were blessed with beautiful sunshine and calm enough conditions to get some decent flying done. The results are as follows -

Day 8
Flight 1: Airglow (aircraft), Mike Truelove (pilot)
Landing accuracy – 1.1m
Flight 2: Betterfly, Paul Wales
Unassisted take off – 83.7m
Flight 3: Airglow, Mike Truelove
Unassisted take off – not airborne
Flight 4: Betterfly , David Barford
Landing accuracy – 3.7m
Flight 5: Airglow, Robin Kraike
Landing accuracy – 3.8m

Day 9
Flight 1: Airglow, Mike Truelove
200m – 22.82s
1km – 1.52min
Duration – 2.28m
Flight 2: Betterfly, Paul Wales
200m – 25.95s
Duration – 1.18min
Flight 3: Airglow, Robin Kraike
200m – 24.66s
1km – 2.03min
Duration – 2.44min
Flight 4: Betterfly , David Barford
200m – 25.94s
Slalom – 4 crossings
Duration = 1.07min
Flight 5: SUHPA, Alex Forrester
Unassisted take off – 81.2m
Duration – 2.55s
Flight 6: Betterfly, David Barford
Unassisted take off – 42.2m
Duration – 3.07s
Flight 7: Airglow, Roger Warren
200m – 28.16s
Duration – 1.28min
Flight 8: Betterfly, Paul Wales
Unassisted take off – 25.8m
Duration – 3.78s
Flight 9: Airglow, Mike Truelove
Unassisted take off – 28.5m
Duration – 6s
Flight 10: Betterfly, Paul Wales
Landing accuracy – 1.7m
Flight 11: Airglow, Robin Kraike
Unassisted take off – 24.9m
Duration – 7s

As you can see, the comp finished on a high with Day 9 being the busiest flying day of the entire event!