Morning Glory!
6:14 a.m. 20 September 2009. Burketown.
Morning Glory hunting. lenticular-crowned cumulus on the dawn's horizon. Jabiru taxiing [runway] 21. We're on deck.
I jotted these notes this morning before we took off. Three and a half hours later, we landed the motor glider on runway 03. We had used 10 liters of fuel. And had soared this:
Morning Glory, running roughly north-south. On the leading edge, we were able to get up to 9 knots of lift at times.
looking the other direction, you can see a gap where lenticular clouds are beginning to assemble
as we approached the "lennies," the lift became a bit more elusive
behind the primary Morning Glory, a secondary cloud rolling only a few miles behind
I posted a couple videos from the flight here.
Morning Glory hunting. lenticular-crowned cumulus on the dawn's horizon. Jabiru taxiing [runway] 21. We're on deck.
I jotted these notes this morning before we took off. Three and a half hours later, we landed the motor glider on runway 03. We had used 10 liters of fuel. And had soared this:
Morning Glory, running roughly north-south. On the leading edge, we were able to get up to 9 knots of lift at times.
looking the other direction, you can see a gap where lenticular clouds are beginning to assemble
as we approached the "lennies," the lift became a bit more elusive
behind the primary Morning Glory, a secondary cloud rolling only a few miles behind
I posted a couple videos from the flight here.
