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Events / MACI 2009 Glide-In - Tountinna(Killaloe) - 13-14th June
« on: May 11, 2009, 20:48:28 PM »
Lots of buns at this one too..... 
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Events / ISR Glide-In - May 16-17th - Mt Leinster - RAIN FORECASTED
« on: May 11, 2009, 20:46:35 PM »
Myself and Ger Buckley are coming on the Sunday morning. See you all then. Can't feckin wait. Haven't had a flight in ages. I will bring lots of buns....
Dave
Dave
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Slope Soaring / New glider bag :)
« on: May 11, 2009, 20:38:17 PM »
Ok, yeah now that is a bit nuts. Practical! but totally nuts :lol:
Dave
Dave
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Events / bummer cant make it
« on: April 25, 2009, 21:32:30 PM »
Sorry Ralph, Would love to get down but my flipping nut case aunt is getting married (again) long story dont ask... :roll:
Anywho, thats my may bank holiday weekend totally shagged. Hope the wind blows in the right direction for ye. Will try to make the next glide in at Mt Leinster. See you then.
Dave.
hopefully there wont be a divorce party or something....
Anywho, thats my may bank holiday weekend totally shagged. Hope the wind blows in the right direction for ye. Will try to make the next glide in at Mt Leinster. See you then.
Dave.
hopefully there wont be a divorce party or something....
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Slope Soaring / A Snowy expedition to Tounntine
« on: March 08, 2009, 13:46:24 PM »
Thanks lads, it was a good day out. There is something about beating the odds to get the flight in. Very rewarding.
cheers
D.
cheers
D.
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Slope Soaring / A Snowy expedition to Tounntine
« on: March 04, 2009, 22:43:30 PM »
Hi All,
We once again braved the icy peaks of Tounntine today. We took one look at the abismal weather today and said.."Nothing like a challenge". This is what greeted me at 7am as I went out to work..
hmmmm, need to built a model with Skis, if this global climate change is here to stay.
Anywho, we will not be put off by such minor obstacles as snow drifts and impending avalanche.
To the top....
We sat in the car talking shite and drinking tea for about an hour in a maelstrom of fog sleet ice snow wind rain cloud hail and more snow, until finally! a clearance was spotted on the horizon... Get some models together pronto!!
In true bonnington style we decided to make base camp at about 16000 feet. Just in case....
:lol:
At last...almost ready to launch.
As if things were not challenging enough, I decided to do some photography while flying my Spirit100. one hand on the right stick one hand on the camera. one foot in a bog hole and one foot in a snow drift..
By now the apprachng storm was nearly on us again so time to land. Ger first as I was flyphotoing... Its a whole new dicipline.. F8Jpeg I think its called. :lol:
Down Safe....But who is watching my model? which is by now slowly drifting down wind in a strengthening gale :shock:
Ended up having to land the model out of sight way down wind of us. Luckily it found a soft spot.
Unfortunatley this spot was about 300feet down the side of the hill. So a lonely uphill hike in a blizzard ended the afternoons flying. :roll:
Are we mad or just plain mad. Still it beats workin!!
Hope my phone camera shots are good enough to view.
Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes :lol:
Cheers
D.
We once again braved the icy peaks of Tounntine today. We took one look at the abismal weather today and said.."Nothing like a challenge". This is what greeted me at 7am as I went out to work..
hmmmm, need to built a model with Skis, if this global climate change is here to stay.
Anywho, we will not be put off by such minor obstacles as snow drifts and impending avalanche.
To the top....
We sat in the car talking shite and drinking tea for about an hour in a maelstrom of fog sleet ice snow wind rain cloud hail and more snow, until finally! a clearance was spotted on the horizon... Get some models together pronto!!
In true bonnington style we decided to make base camp at about 16000 feet. Just in case....
:lol:
At last...almost ready to launch.
As if things were not challenging enough, I decided to do some photography while flying my Spirit100. one hand on the right stick one hand on the camera. one foot in a bog hole and one foot in a snow drift..
By now the apprachng storm was nearly on us again so time to land. Ger first as I was flyphotoing... Its a whole new dicipline.. F8Jpeg I think its called. :lol:
Down Safe....But who is watching my model? which is by now slowly drifting down wind in a strengthening gale :shock:
Ended up having to land the model out of sight way down wind of us. Luckily it found a soft spot.
Unfortunatley this spot was about 300feet down the side of the hill. So a lonely uphill hike in a blizzard ended the afternoons flying. :roll:
Are we mad or just plain mad. Still it beats workin!!
Hope my phone camera shots are good enough to view.
Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes :lol:
Cheers
D.
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Slope Soaring / Luna 2metre moldie movie
« on: March 04, 2009, 22:08:23 PM »
Nice flying. Nice video shooting aswell.
Where is Killakee?
D.
Where is Killakee?
D.
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Slope Soaring / First Outing To Tounntine Today
« on: February 17, 2009, 22:51:18 PM »
Kieth,
The Landing areas on tounn tine are pretty good. A couple of hidden dips here and there and the odd water hazzard. But overall its good. Lots of soft heather everywhere so you never really get a hard landing. The only wind direction that is bad on this hill is easterly.
Joe,
Would love to fly it for ya, I had it with me at the Glide in on Mt leinster last year. Wind was too light for it. Better luck this year hopefully.
Cheers
D.
The Landing areas on tounn tine are pretty good. A couple of hidden dips here and there and the odd water hazzard. But overall its good. Lots of soft heather everywhere so you never really get a hard landing. The only wind direction that is bad on this hill is easterly.
Joe,
Would love to fly it for ya, I had it with me at the Glide in on Mt leinster last year. Wind was too light for it. Better luck this year hopefully.
Cheers
D.
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Slope Soaring / First Outing To Tounntine Today
« on: February 16, 2009, 20:39:26 PM »
Yeah, June 13 and 14 for the MACI Glide in at tounntine. I am bringing the buns.
Lokking forward to it. We will try to make the 2 glide in at Mt leinster this year too. We really enjoyed the day out last year.
D.
Lokking forward to it. We will try to make the 2 glide in at Mt leinster this year too. We really enjoyed the day out last year.
D.
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Slope Soaring / Sorry no photos.
« on: February 16, 2009, 15:55:58 PM »
Hi Kieth, Fred,
We were flying a Great Planes Spirit 100, A Reichard Champion, and a Dyna Flyte Bird of Time. I do not have any photos of last wed, But I dug out a few photos, from tounntine. My spirit is featured so I suppose we could pretend that it was last wed. I will remember to take some pics the next day. I need to run out onow and buy a digital camera Pronto!! :wink:
This is my GP Spirit 100 built from kit. Used flaps and aileron for crow brakes. Very nice model in a gentle but steady breeze.
The next pic is Ger and myself with a pair of S2G MDM-1 Fox's. 1:3.5 scale. Big gliders with a mean temperament. Will only fly in a small hurricane. And usually all other gliders need to get out of the way fairly lively....
Here we are flying a Salto and a hotliner of some description. This was a visit from a guy who contacted me from Germany through my website. He stayed on top of tounntine in a camper van for 4 days. Loved the place!!
And a couple of pics of me in my 1:1 scale ASK7..... :wink: Well ok it was a trip to Gowran Grange to the Dublin Gliding Club for a day out Aerotowing. Wonderfull!!
Next time up the hill I will get a few relevant shots of our escapades.
As for the freezing proverbials, I was under the impression that all slope soarers flew with their antenna's out in the breeze?? :lol:
C'ya
Dave.
We were flying a Great Planes Spirit 100, A Reichard Champion, and a Dyna Flyte Bird of Time. I do not have any photos of last wed, But I dug out a few photos, from tounntine. My spirit is featured so I suppose we could pretend that it was last wed. I will remember to take some pics the next day. I need to run out onow and buy a digital camera Pronto!! :wink:
This is my GP Spirit 100 built from kit. Used flaps and aileron for crow brakes. Very nice model in a gentle but steady breeze.
The next pic is Ger and myself with a pair of S2G MDM-1 Fox's. 1:3.5 scale. Big gliders with a mean temperament. Will only fly in a small hurricane. And usually all other gliders need to get out of the way fairly lively....
Here we are flying a Salto and a hotliner of some description. This was a visit from a guy who contacted me from Germany through my website. He stayed on top of tounntine in a camper van for 4 days. Loved the place!!
And a couple of pics of me in my 1:1 scale ASK7..... :wink: Well ok it was a trip to Gowran Grange to the Dublin Gliding Club for a day out Aerotowing. Wonderfull!!
Next time up the hill I will get a few relevant shots of our escapades.
As for the freezing proverbials, I was under the impression that all slope soarers flew with their antenna's out in the breeze?? :lol:
C'ya
Dave.
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Slope Soaring / First Outing To Tounntine Today
« on: February 11, 2009, 21:09:52 PM »
Hi All, Happy new year.
Been a good while since i read the forum but anyhow we got out on the slope at tounntine today. Myself and Ger buckley. Light lift and clear blue skies. Good flying with the lighter balsa models. Froze our proverbials off but well worth it.
:wink: It got our 2009 season off to a great start. Even if it took us untill Feb to get up there. Hope its a good year for slope soarin.
C'ya
D
Been a good while since i read the forum but anyhow we got out on the slope at tounntine today. Myself and Ger buckley. Light lift and clear blue skies. Good flying with the lighter balsa models. Froze our proverbials off but well worth it.
:wink: It got our 2009 season off to a great start. Even if it took us untill Feb to get up there. Hope its a good year for slope soarin.C'ya
D
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How to... / Throttle cut on twin engines. Futaba 8U
« on: September 30, 2008, 20:10:00 PM »
Thanks Ralph,
My old tranny is starting to show its age anyway, maybe this is the hint it is giving me to retire it and invest in the new technology.. :?:
Cheers
D.
My old tranny is starting to show its age anyway, maybe this is the hint it is giving me to retire it and invest in the new technology.. :?:
Cheers
D.
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Slope Sites in Ireland / Slea Head Co Kerry
« on: September 21, 2008, 20:20:21 PM »
Fred,
I flew my electric model, the same one I had at the recent fly in on mt leinster, and had no hasstle there at all. That was just under 3m. It is a slope that you need to be good on the brakes as you need to pick your landing spot carefully. Glass models with foam core wings etc up to 3m with airbrakes would be great. The thorny scrub really would not do much damage to these.
cheers
D.
I flew my electric model, the same one I had at the recent fly in on mt leinster, and had no hasstle there at all. That was just under 3m. It is a slope that you need to be good on the brakes as you need to pick your landing spot carefully. Glass models with foam core wings etc up to 3m with airbrakes would be great. The thorny scrub really would not do much damage to these.
cheers
D.
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Park Flyers / Foamies / Voodoo up a tree
« on: September 12, 2008, 15:05:32 PM »
Here is a short tale of woe about my recent mishap with a P51 Voodoo Mustang park flyer from World Model ( do not ever buy this model)
There is a field beside my house suitable for park flyers. Hence my purchace of the Voodoo.
2 Weeks ago I was doing high speed low level straffing runs the full length of the field. Followed by a savage full up to vertical to narrowly avoid slamming into the trees at the end of the field. I had been doing this for a few weeks now and was getting right bloody cocky about it. This Particular eve I was out doing the same thing, (there is a rumour that I had a couple of beers at dinner time...but that is completely unfounded :twisted: ) So I pulled to vertical at the last minute, the setting sun blotted out the model and a sense of vertigo over whelmed me and SMASH!! right into the top of a tree. 200ft up!
There is stayed for the last 2 weeks or so, and last night I walked down to see if any miracles had befallen it, and lo and behold there it was on the ground Well actually in a ditch under about a foot of water.:cry:
It is my first true and total anihilation of a model. I do not think anything can be salvaged from this one.
Lesson here> If you put 400 quids worth of new electronics into a cheap piece of balsa and plastic, make sure that when you reach the stage where you are flying recklessly, because you think to yourself 'Sher I can put the gear into a better model if I crash' you factor in the tree and water hazard too :?:
There is a field beside my house suitable for park flyers. Hence my purchace of the Voodoo.
2 Weeks ago I was doing high speed low level straffing runs the full length of the field. Followed by a savage full up to vertical to narrowly avoid slamming into the trees at the end of the field. I had been doing this for a few weeks now and was getting right bloody cocky about it. This Particular eve I was out doing the same thing, (there is a rumour that I had a couple of beers at dinner time...but that is completely unfounded :twisted: ) So I pulled to vertical at the last minute, the setting sun blotted out the model and a sense of vertigo over whelmed me and SMASH!! right into the top of a tree. 200ft up!
There is stayed for the last 2 weeks or so, and last night I walked down to see if any miracles had befallen it, and lo and behold there it was on the ground
Well actually in a ditch under about a foot of water.:cry: It is my first true and total anihilation of a model. I do not think anything can be salvaged from this one.
Lesson here> If you put 400 quids worth of new electronics into a cheap piece of balsa and plastic, make sure that when you reach the stage where you are flying recklessly, because you think to yourself 'Sher I can put the gear into a better model if I crash' you factor in the tree and water hazard too :?:
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Slope Sites in Ireland / Slea Head Co Kerry
« on: September 11, 2008, 15:07:20 PM »
FYI
Slea head is great. A great view of the blasket islands as you fly out over the sound. Great lift! Landing is a little bit scary due to a lot of thorny scrub about but you can easily pick your spot to land. I thought it was great.
Slainte!!
D.
Slea head is great. A great view of the blasket islands as you fly out over the sound. Great lift! Landing is a little bit scary due to a lot of thorny scrub about but you can easily pick your spot to land. I thought it was great.
Slainte!!
D.