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16th + 17th March event

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Keith:
Hi lads
Great bit of craic as usual at the weekend .And thanks very much again to stephen shannon for finding my zagi it had been up there since janurary and i had given up on finding it. i had been up and down that slope four times and never got a glimpse of it and stephen just happens on it while he was looking for me as i had been on another ramble down the slope
 :clap:  :clap:

Fred:
Saturday - Continued (sorry, had to take a "kid" break  :wink: )







Found a panorama function on my camera by the way... Used it so!  :mrgreen:









And it was time for a groupe photo (old Keith is not in that one! But we have some with him. Funny enough, nobody called him or mentionned that he was missing...Strong message sent!  :P  :P )















Bendy Roisin  :D























And last one in flight. Landed the Asw15 at 18.40  :D



And it was time to head to the B&B in Bunclody for the traditional.. erm.. Social off event  :lol:

Fred:
This is when things gets hairy!  :lol:  :oops:
Once again, thanks to Roisin for the feast  :clap:  :clap:
We also found our Welsh buddy, Adam, but this time, we saw him for a bit longer than the last time  :lol:





Then, things started to go a bit wild!  :lol:  :D

Featuring Richard the French Man  :lol:



We had to give the Danger T-Shirt to Ralph... (did I mentionned he was the first one in bed?   :P  :P ) so we all ended up in his room!
What have to be done, need to be done!









Don't they look.. eerrrmmmm, pleased!  :lol:





I was then presented a bottle of "Fat B*stard" (with a screw cap!!  :evil: ). Actually, funny wine producers! (google it)



And we even had a show from our 2 favourites groupies!  :clap:  :D



Oh, and no Andrew, I was the last one in bed!  :D

Next morning, everybody looked more or less fresh  :D



We left the pipe band doing their march, before it was time to head back to Mt Leinster for another great day!

Fred:
Sunday... Wind!
And rain, and even snow!
Big contrast compared to the Saturday!
Need to add more layers to keep warm, and dry between the showers!
We had a few showers during the day, but nothing really serious, the longest one being around 10 minutes, giving us about 2 hours flight time until the next one.

Anyway, this was going to be the PSS day!  :D







JP maidened his 2 new PSS, the Aermacchi and the Fouga Magister. First flights were total non event!
Those things fly great and looks great! Well done John!  :clap:
This was alo the first flight of Kevin's one, in the expert hands of Ralph.. Same results, no issues, and looks really good!  :clap:  :clap:























And some good landings with the Fouga... Wing tanks left behing swiftly recovered by some happy people  :D









And Richard showing us how a Quark must be flown!











Oh, and we had a BBQ this time! (nobody were hungry on Saturday!)



As for me, I finally managed to properly test my Avacro wing.
Did a few launches on Saturday, believing that the wing will do well in the low lift conditions (very light, and huge wing area), but couldn't get that thing flying, even with 1.10 euros!  :P  :P
So, conclusions were that the profile I took needed more lift (F3F profile)...
So the Sunday, launched the wing again and... Well, I love it!
That thing really came up to life! Very easy to fly, perform well in aerobatics, and the huge rudder do some... interresting stuff!  :D
Very happy!

So, that was almost an end to the day, when Steven found Tall Keith wing he lost a good 3 months ago!  :clap:  :clap:
Let's charge the wing... and miracle, everything worked fine like nothing ever happened!  :clap:
We had a very happy Keith!



And then, it was time to go home!


NOT!  :!:

Silly car, when you leave the boot open all day, the light in the boot don't turn off. Something the remeber for the next one!

Called Keith (the old bloke) and after 10 minutes, came back to the slope with Keith (the tall bloke) and Steven (the find stuff bloke). Jump leads and all that, and engine was running in a flash!  :clap:  :clap:
Thanks again guys for coming back!
No one left behind!!  :D



So once again, thank you all for coming  :clap:  Looks like the first meeting of the season was another success, good flying, good laugh and banter, and most important, a good bunch of friends  :clap:  :clap:

Bring on April!!

mario:
nices pictures, we want coming :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:

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