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garrykeogh:
Hello again,
I myself am guilty of flying anything that can haul itself against the earth's gravity, mostly helicopters lately (well that's where I have diverted most of my hobby spend).  To this end, I have been involved in the promotion and administration of our new "3D Heli Challenge Trophy" national championship.  All said, I have had far too much family and work interruption of my precious hobby over the last year and have not flown much at all.

Where is all this going...
Some of the other guys I fly with in the Shankill Radio Flying Club http://www.srfc.net have just come back from a trip to South Wales.  They tried thier hands out at F3F racing and had an other go at proper organised combat.  Now I went on this trip two years ago, combat only and wrote an article about the trip for the MACI Flightlines when I came back.  According to the lads, this F3F is absolutely compulsive stuff when you try it.  My experience in South Wales was of unbelieveable lift, I mean yank the model out of your hands...look up quickly like it is on a bungee to the heavens!  The fun we had in the combat goes beyond description.  Have a look on the Shankill Club website, our webmaster was on the last trip (ringleader) and has put a lot of stuff on the front page...just click on the photo and it opens up a new page.

I am keen to get out a little more with my silent stable (all sport stuff) and am going to point all the gliding folk towards this forum in the hope that we can all join in a little more.  I have a feeling that with a little "rebel" rousing (sorry for the pun) we can get some stuff going.

What sort of stuff is happening that we don't know about?  Is there any organised "fun" stuff happening?  I am thinking combat, 60" epp racing e.t.c.

Sorry if I sound a bit dis-jointed, I am looking to find what's happening and looking to see if we can row in together to get some more rapport and fun on our hills.

Talk soon

Garry

Alan_Perse:
Hi Garry. Welcome to the forum. I would be up for some 60" EPP racing. But I would have to by a model for it. I think Phoenix Models from the UK do some good EPP racers, www.phoenixmp.com .

joe:
Hiya Garry.
Thanks for the post.Just checked out the pics on the SRFC site.Looks absolutley brilliant.Thats some stunning flying site!
I'll add a bit about it on the http://www.islandsloperebels.com website and a link(hope thats ok?).
I'd imagine a few of us (myself included) would be interested in a similar trip to Wales next time round,if fancied havin a few more along!
As for whats coming up our for us.
We have our first glide-in on the 17th of June at Mt Leinster.Hoping to have a good few show up and take part!
It'll mostly be funfly , although we will be encouraging some friendly competition.We plan on combat,racing,scale and maybe some aerobatics! The emphasis will be on people coming and flying and havin a laugh!
We might try plan some other flying days for the summer if people are interested.Maybe weekday evenings around dublin or the occaisonal trip to Mt Leinster.
At the moment we usually just come on the forum Thurs/Fri and try to arrange something for that Sat/Sun if the weather looks good!
What I might do is put up some sort of form for people interested in flying where they leave their email/number and we can do a mail out/txt out when we know people are getting together!
Thanks again for the post.We would be delighted to get a few more people out flying and as you say if we can row in together we could get something going!
I'll prepare my combat wing :D
Joe

garrykeogh:
Hi Alan,
I have owned and flown a few of Stan Yeo's models and I have to admit that they are pretty good.  The last time I was in wales, he had just launched a new 60" model which was apparently quite good too.
I don't own a 60" foamie but would buy one if it looked like we could get a class going.
Bob Finley, Neil Agnew and Alan Rasmussen in the Shankill club have F3F type machines.  Maybe this is a better route to go if we are going to organise anything formal as I guess you guys have some suitable moulded bullits 8)

Garry

Alan_Perse:
F3F sounds good. But the only problem is F3F machines are pritty expensive and if you crash it its going to cost you even more when you buy a new one. The EPP one's are pitty cheap (as far as I know) compared to the F3F and they have a pritty good performance based on the reveiws I have read.

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