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Richard Boyd:
Sunday 10th April, John,Bill,Steve and myself meet up on the Mourne Mountains to slope with the Banbridge club members.
We meet up at Spelga Dam and then made the hike up the slope to the top of the mountain, I was shattered!!! but with Steve ahead of us, I had to keep my chin up and soldier on.. Steve is 84 years young !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I flew my Fox and the Bidie DS , John flew his extreme and bill flew his Zagi.
Only 2 members of Banbridge club turned up as the other members were engaged else were.
Although the winds seemed ok at 15mph, the lift was lite and it was hard work at times.
Matthew and Shaun flew their faithfull Phase 6 models, it seems that the phase 6 does not like a Birdy DS. Needless to say , " the Phase 6 came off the worse and the Birdie remains unscaved   :lol:
We all had a fantastic day and a big thanks to Matthew and Shaun for the invite to fly with them.
I took only a few photos as I seemed to fly alot !
I hope Bill can upload a few.

SPELGA DAM




John preparing his Extreme


The slope we had to walk up !!!!!!!


Battered Fox and Phase 6 slayer  :D


John and Shaun


Bill and his faithful Zagi


Richard

Happy Days:
Not too sure about the reference to Phase 6’s being damaged by a Birdy,…….perhaps you’d care to explain Richard. :shock:

Oh, the faithful Zagi. Lovely little flyer, and soooo resilient. Good choice Bill. (Can’t remember whatever happened to mine.) :?:

And John just loves his Xtreem doesn’t he. Wherever he goes, it doesn’t seem to be far behind. :wink:

Anyway, glad you guys had a memorable time yesterday with Shaun and Mathew. :D

 Down here yesterday the temperature went to over 20C. With warm sun and virtually no wind  “she” & I went for a spin on one of our motorcycles. Met a few other bikers along the way and enjoyed the first really warm day of the year so far.

Today, the temp. has been much lower, and the wind much stronger! :D  :D  I spent the morning up on the Big L. Wind speed at the ridge was blowing me backwards so I’d estimate the gusts must have been 100K plus at times. :clap:  Full ballast was needed which produced some very fast flying. GREAT FUN :P .

The Whisper (2mtr mouldy) was keeping me very much on my toes as it screeched about the sky. However when bring it into land the second time I think I forgot that it weighed 170% of it’s un-ballasted weight and slowed it too much,………it stalled and fell to earth. Ouch! :!:  

The Phase 6, also ballasted to nearly double it’s normal AUW, always puts a large smile on my face when flying in strong winds. The trouble is I get a bit over ambitious sometimes. :roll:
 Today I made it perform a double roll while flying close in and low, so I thought I’d try a triple roll.
I sent her out into the lift, high in the sky, swooped in low and fast over the landing area and pushed the stick hard over. Unfortunately she only made two and a half rolls before running out of momentum,….. and gravity did the rest!

Oh well, I enjoyed myself and I’ve got plenty of glue in the workshop………….


Phase 6


Whisper

K.

Richard Boyd:
ooops Mr. Keith that looks painfull  :(
I have a vector that looks very similar to your phase 6

Keith my  Birdy was being attcked by a large peditor ! A PHASE 6 !!!!!
Bill may have a photo of how the Phase 6 looks after the mid air.
My wee pocket rocket was undamaged  :D
Sorry Matthew!
Size doesn't matter

 I was up on Slieve Gallion this morning for a quick flight.
Winds are gusting up to 40mph which is well under Mt L's 100 kmph.

I flew the Birdy again today but kept it in close to the slope as I had a few frightening moments  yesterday with signal loss.
I am using a micro park flyer RX.
I was sure the tale feathers would have exploded today but they held up well in the strong North Westerly winds.
If we get these sort of winds at the weekend, fun will be had by all, except the faint hearted.

Richard

andrew wallace:
looks like a good day  :D
i was scoring brownie points  :lol: so i'll be able to get away this weekend  :clap:

i have the big cub fixed after an unexpected gust of wing through it over when landing and i just broke the wing tip so i was lucky  :clap:

hope the wind stays westerly in this part of the country  :)

Happy Days:
So your Birdy was attacked by a predatory Phase 6.…..Well what did you expect Richard? That’s what Phase 6’s “Do”  :lol: ! I shall look forward to seeing Bills’ photo of the injured predator.

And as for flying a slope soarer, in high winds, with only a low gain rx in it :shock: …..all I can say is you’re a braver man than me Richard! :clap:

(If the forecasts for this weekend are for 40Mph winds, west/north/east with no rain, I’ll pop up and join you.)
(Provided my models are airworthy by then!!! :roll: )

Keith

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