Aerial Shots Gallery

Area and hill-site photos

16 December 2006

NEW ADDITIONS VIEWED FIRST

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!

 

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