David Woods escapes the pit palaver for a giddy gallimaufry of manic manoeuvres at Ivinghoe Beacon.
This frantic footage is from an impressive tour de force of freestyle glider aerobatics including stall turns, inverted stall turns, multiple rolls and loops, a nice flick roll and a superb eight pointer. Not bad for a much repaired model built in 1993.
[The Rumour is homebuilt with a glass fuselage. The wings are from six sections of blue foam. It has a selfmade carbon I-spar; the skins are made from 70gsm carbon, plain weave cut at 45º bias, vacuumed on with epoxy resin. The tailplane is a hollow moulded glass Rohacell sandwich construction.]