{"id":1952,"date":"2021-03-22T15:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2021-03-22T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:40:45","slug":"sloping-with-a-pures-glider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Sloping with a PuRES glider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managed to get out flying today on Dartmoor at St Michaels Bungalow.\u00a0 Wind was forecast westerly; however when I got there this afternoon it had changed to an ideal North westerly at around 7 to 10 kts.\u00a0 Perfect for a sloping maiden of my recently built PuRES V2.\u00a0 Weighing a meagre 450 grams, 2 meter wing span; with V tail control. This is my first foray into unpowered flight and V tails.\u00a0 Went really well and was pleased with its performance; at times climbing up a good 100 feet above my location and got in some figure of 8 flying along the slope and also managed a couple of loops.\u00a0 Small 4.8v NIMH 750 mah battery.\u00a0 Flew for around 30 minutes total and still had voltage to spare.\u00a0 Happy to be out flying again after a long lockdown, due to Covid 19, hope to see you out there soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Webp.net-resizeimage (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage-2.jpg 1572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Webp.net-resizeimage\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpg 1572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managed to get out flying today on Dartmoor at St Michaels Bungalow.\u00a0 Wind was forecast westerly; however when I got there this afternoon it had changed to an ideal North westerly at around 7 to 10 kts.\u00a0 Perfect for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/?p=1952\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/okehamptonmfc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}