LEFT: The White Horse repaint
was complete by December 2006 and it is seen here on the 16th.
RIGHT: Not summer but December
9th 2006. This composite picture shows just some of the hangies
that came to fly
LEFT: July 2006- The Pewsey Valley
looking northeast from 4500' toward the Milk Hill Bowl and Golden
Ball ridge.
RIGHT: November 2006 on the north
slope (Bratton Fort).
LEFT: August 2005 - over Bratton
looking out to the airfield on a smashingly clear XC day
RIGHT: The hill from overhead
at 3000 feet ATO. Other wings are hard to make out.
LEFT: Westbury from above (at
2000 feet). It is an awful long way down.
RIGHT: southeast Westbury from
above (at 1500 feet).
LEFT: The hill site in summer
from 2000 feet over Westbury town.
RIGHT: Another view of the hill
from over Westbury town.
LEFT: a large advection fog bank
persists in front of the slopes until 2pm in the lee of the light
southerly wind. it extended from surface to about 150 feet.
RIGHT: The cold fog moves in on
Bratton from the NW while the warmer southerly wind moves over
it heading north causing a classic cold wedge shape to the leading
edge of the fog bank.
LEFT: The bottom landing field
becomes visible for a few minutes as the fog washes in and out
against the hillside.
RIGHT: The cement works chimney
poking out of the cloudtops.
LEFT: With thermal climbs up to
1200 feet one sunday in mid november 2004 , flying 1.5 km to the
cement works and back was do-able.
RIGHT: Reaching the cement works
took some time against the headwind. I got too close to the plume
of toxic waste as I crossed the railway line.
LEFT:
The snow of February 2004 coats the white horse bowl.
RIGHT: The Wiltshire Air Ambulance
quickly arrives for a hang-glider pilot after he breaks his arm
landing.
Westbury's
White Horse on a pretty skies day in 2006.
Westbury's massive concreted Horse
and carpark area.
Bratton
camp and Horse as seen from 3500 feet at cloudbase in May 2004.
A flexwing flies in the rain of
a nearby cumulonimbus.
LEFT: A pretty
view of the Westbury bowl from the bottom landing field in late
April 2004.
And
again in 2005 after the grass crop has been mown!