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Fred:
Thanks for the photos  :clap:
Looks like you had great fun up there!  :D

Sorry, can't be with you tomorrow, we just move the father in a 24/7 unit  :( , so I have a few more things to do before I can go somewhere.

Hope you have fun tomorrow! I envy you!!  :!:

andrew wallace:
hi fred
family comes first there will be plenty of other times when we will get to fly  :D

Richard Boyd:
Hi Fred sorry to hear about your Father Inlaw.

Today we were joined by the Honourable Mr. Keith/Happy Days ! and it was a happy day that we had on the slope.
I arrived at 10.20 and Keith was already on the slope, John soon followed as did Andrew , Terry,Robert and Karl.
Winds picked up in the evening to 72KMPH !!!!!
This was fun fun fun.
Thanks to Keith for travelling up and for the good company !!!!
John flew the big B52 and it floated about the sky with presence.
Beautiful :clap:

All in all another fantastic day on Slieve Gallion !

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/fweZ53njqA4&feature=player_embedded#at=120[/youtube]

JohnPearson:
Hi Terry thanks for the fantastic video, yes it was a great day on the slope today, with very strong winds. It was good to get the big lady into the air again, she likes plenty of wind beneath her wings for a smooth flight and today she was in her element. The B52 is not hard to fly but she will kick back at you if you don't treat her with respect, the light touch is required.
It was good to have Sir Keith joining us up north and his good lady, also the ballymoney lads, overall a good day with lots of flying, with good craic and Richard's standard supply of Hot dogs.

Sorry, but I have no photos, I was to busy flying, I have flown more in the last couple of months than I did, all last year :lol:

Happy Days:
Well,……that was SOME days flying. The East Slope at Slieve Gallion is very interesting having two lift zones. ( Created by two slopes.) The first lift comes off  the top ridge, (Flying ridge) The other comes off a further ridge some 2 -300 meters in front of, and a hundred feet below the flying ridge.
As I found to my displeasure, if I flew too low in front of, and below the top ridge, there seem to be eddie currents coming from the second (lower and further forward) ridge that just pushes the model down!

Just as an aside to the matter of flying, when I went down to retrieve my plane I inadvertently walked straight into a bog. Knee deep,………fell forward,…….got covered in rotting organic compounds. Didn’t feel very nice. (soggy jeans, squelchy shoes, a wet jacket and nothing to change into. More on this anon.) Luckily this happened right at the end of the day.

Good winds generated masses of lift, which for my little models, needed full ballast just to get them to penetrate. It was a really good day with great flying, greater company, and a wonderful landing zone,….Long smooth grass with very few rocks making landing soooo easy. Unless you’re J.P. who loves to show off by spot landing between the only two rocks within half a mile of the flying area. (He’s such a flash bugger that guy. :roll: )

The Big B52 looked incredibly majestic silhouetted against the blue sky, and very dramatic when flown in close to the ridge. Wonderful sight.
JP and Richard enjoyed their 3mtr Fox’s while Andy seemed mesmerised with his very ballistic Bullet. Meanwhile Karl was flying his phase 6, which I now see isn’t a phase 6 at all. And no one seems to quite know what it is, but it certainly flys. Say-no-more! :D

Many thanks gentlemen for your company, help and advise.  Many thanks to Richard for all the tea, and sandwiches.

Oh,…..and about that bog I fell into……………

For the first hour of driving home I rather forgot about the incident. Mandy and I just talked about how our day had gone. She shopping, me flying.
Eventually the conversation went quiet…………….
After a while Mandy sniffed the air, turned to me and said, “Have you farted?”
“No” I replied, (pause……) “May be a farmer has been muck spreading.”
A couple of miles passed.
“You have farted!” she insisted
“I haven’t!!” I protested.
Turning to look out of the passenger window she muttered under her breath, “I recon you’ve either farted or you shit yourself on that ridge today.”
I ignored the comment.
Thirty seconds latter we both turned to each other and said simultaneously “It’s that BLOODY BOG!”   :evil:  

Thanks again gentlemen,…it was a pleasure flying with you. (I shall return!)

Keith

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