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Retroplane... In Ireland !
Fred:
Hi all :D
I'm back ! :D
Retroplane 2009 officially closed its doors Saturday! 2 weeks talking gliders, needed a break, and decided to go back to work today! :P
What to say ? First of all, a big thank you to everybody, participating, or not (with a special thank you to Bill from Nimsa(NI) for the helping hands, and of course Joe, which patience was more than a virtue! ) and I've heard in the group that the Irish hospitality was far from being a legend !
Lots of stories to tell and hundreds, if not thousands, of photos to show!
I'm setting up a galery and will send the link later, but I will keep this thread updated with photos, a sort of best of! :D
Vincent will do as usual, a dedicated page with even more inside stories, photos and videos! :clap:
I think everybody left the country really pleased with this year's event, even if the weather showed no mercy for the 2 weeks and throwed pretty much everything at us (we were even expecting some snow, just to make sure we had everything!), but this is a real Irish summer after all, and everybody came prepared (ok, more or less... :P ) and all in all, one of the Retroplane where the most flights were done ! :clap:
I come back a bit later for more, and a few photos :D
Fred:
Good morning all :D
I've put a few photos of the event on the GliderIreland Galery.
Direct access to the Albums here :
http://www.gliderireland.net/galery/index.php?cat=5
If you want photos in much higher resolution, just let me know ! (all 800x600 in the album...)
Enjoy! :D
joe:
Last pilots left yesterday. Right back to normality again.
Would also like to say a big thanks to everyone. Especially Bill for the helping hand and David for his help and entertainment coordination! Big thanks as well to Kevin, Les and Ralph for helping with the indoor days and sacrificing their indoor models to keep people entertained.
Joe :clap: :clap:
Stephan:
Hi folks
back in Germany I immediately pulled out my shorts, what a heat here. I am not used to that after two weeks in Ireland :lol: . What to say about the country and the people. Everything I heared before was true, nice and friendly people, great hospitality gorgeous landscape and yes - even the rain was real :D
Thank you to Fred and Joe for two great weeks, to David for helping to install the awning, to Ralph for encourageing my son Timo in indoor flying and providing the material to do so and all the others I forgot.
Two weeks, which we will certainly never forget.
The picture is one out of our trip to the Kerry, around Dingel based on Joe's advice - at the end of the world :wink:
Stephan
rogallo:
I must agree with everyone, it was a fantastic event. We all had a great time and made new friends over the last two weeks. I think a special thanks must go to Joe and Fred for their endless work for being wonderful hosts for the event.
I was happy to encourage Timo, he was a great lad and loved teh Irish weather.
I hope to see you all again next year
Ralph
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