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andrew wallace

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« Reply #30 on: June 09, 2013, 16:50:02 PM »
What a great weekend we didn't get to Rathlin but we sure made up for it
we flew thermal models off the bungee and our blasters on top of Benevenagh mountain and had a bbq on Castlerock beach in the evening, today we aero-towed at the buzzards, we took Fred for a walk round the Ulster Gliding Club in the morning and went to the very top of Benevenagh and looked down on Magilligan
i'm sure there will be photo's and stories I would say very soon
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Thanks to everyone for a brilliant weekend and I hope Fred gets home safe  :D
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« Reply #31 on: June 09, 2013, 21:48:10 PM »
C'mon lads a whole weekend of flying and not one pic ??? Someone give us our fix  :D
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« Reply #32 on: June 09, 2013, 22:08:48 PM »
Hi guys thanks to everyone for an amazing weekend. I'm assured that everyone went home exhausted yet having a perminant grin on their face !!!
I'm not long home and sorry Keith I have only a few bad fotos.
Mr Fred has taken hundreds lol
I'm sure he will post them as soon as he recovers

Fred is still on a high from winning the most pristigous trophy in the island of Ireland !!!!

I will let him tell you all about it !!!
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« Reply #33 on: June 10, 2013, 00:55:00 AM »
We'll give him a chance to get home so  :D
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« Reply #34 on: June 10, 2013, 09:58:58 AM »
And back to work... After a great week end!

Thanks to the North boys (and girls!) for the warm welcome (literally!  :lol: ) , the laughs, and some of the best slopes I saw in this country!  :clap:  :clap:

I'll do a full report later with photos and all that.

Oh, and one for Andrew:



 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #35 on: June 10, 2013, 10:07:23 AM »
Ok, another one...
View for the South at the Ballarina slope.
The moutains at the back, is Donnegal!

The photo gives very little justice to the place! 1200ft high cliffs with a great view of the North Atlantic.

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« Reply #36 on: June 10, 2013, 15:30:46 PM »
:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:




this was from Sunday me towing Freds ASW 15b up with the Cub  :D
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« Reply #37 on: June 10, 2013, 15:45:15 PM »
Nice one  :D  (need a bigger one!)

Another one for the road:



I like the Blaster! (had a blast with the Blaster... OK, had to do it!  :lol: )
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« Reply #38 on: June 10, 2013, 16:17:40 PM »
1200ft north facing cliffs, with a landing zone on the top?!!! :D  :D

 OOOooooooh!  
(……I think I’ve just had an orgasm. :oops:  )

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« Reply #39 on: June 10, 2013, 17:24:34 PM »
Lovely fotos iof the blasters

Yes Keith the view point and binevnagh has perfect landing areas but the best area I have seen for landing and slope is rathlin island.
We are so lucky to have these great slopes on our door step

The winds were not in our favour this weekend bit we still managed to have an amazing fun time.
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« Reply #40 on: June 11, 2013, 14:56:44 PM »
Quote from: "Happy Days"
1200ft north facing cliffs, with a landing zone on the top?!!! :D  :D

 OOOooooooh!  
(……I think I’ve just had an orgasm. :oops:  )

K.


Yep, the top of the cliffs, you basically have an airport to land in.
Easy access with big car park on all of them  :D
You can fly pretty much any size of gliders. Looking forward to get back there with some good winds to try them properly  :D

I'm a tad late for the photos!
I'll post them tonight!

Ok, one for the road...

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« Reply #41 on: June 18, 2013, 13:08:00 PM »
Ok, time to put more photos!

Saturday:

























FPV stuff.. Very neat! GPS positioning, altitude hold and all the bells and whistles  :D











Then, Andrew and Richard had a Blaster mini competition  :D  :clap:





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« Reply #42 on: June 18, 2013, 13:20:44 PM »
Then, we had a Thermal Competition, with some of the best thermal pilots in Northern Ireland  :P  :lol:

The "Harp Challenge Global Thermal Winners Cup 2013"  :D

Conditions were rather poor for thermals, very scratchy and tight. We decided in a 6mins target time in 3 rounds. Sandow launch for all pilots.

The first round saw one pilot in particular struggling to reach the 2 minutes mark, despite all his training, confidence in the task to finally land his glider at the 1.59 minutes mark... Another pilot, who should remain nameless, landed after making a point (he could have go on and on, but got bored after 2.39 minutes... No fun  :lol:  :P )

Anyway, here is scoreboard  :D



The cup was then given (surprise!  :clap: ) at Andrew's flying club the next day after a lovely BBQ  :clap:



More training is needed from the little Padawan  :lol:

See you next year! This time, I'll fly my own glider  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #43 on: June 18, 2013, 17:24:44 PM »
:clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

fanastic Fred  :D i look forwards to beating  you even with your own model next year  :lol: and bring the Gobal Harp Challenge Winners Cup back to the empty space on my shelf in the shed  :D

thank you so much for coming up and making it a brilliant weekend  8)
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« Reply #44 on: June 19, 2013, 07:30:25 AM »
Hi Fred thanks for posting your fotos.
What memories I have of that weekend
The harp challenge trophy was gifted to you lol
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