25/04/2021 Blackheath
A cool brisk easterly breeze this morning with a mostly cloudy sky to start. I was seeing 8-14mph on the meter which was at the low end of the forecasts. There were lulls but not low enough for us to opt for anything other than the RSS kites.
Once up and running we flew to accompaniment by Marc Johnson, Shades of Jade and then upping the tempo a bit, to Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, Notes with Attachments. No calls, of course but interesting to see the range of flight developing through the course of our flight today.
The blue gaps between the clouds slowly grew but the sun could not really lift the chill of the 12C base temperature. Wind chill can make such a difference at this time of year.
I had taken a couple of the JMH Composite Kite pieces but felt that the inconsistency of the breeze would see the kites drift off the centre of the wind window as we saw two weeks ago. We will designate them as ‘high wind’ kites… in a Danish coastal breeze!
Festival kite flying plans for 2021 are probably being re-evaluated now as the level of uncertainty makes everything very difficult. At least the older cohort in the team have now had their vaccinations. We’ll have to wait for the rest of the world to catch up!
Felix
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