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Title: Busy week
Post by: selleri on June 28, 2015, 01:20:25 AM

:D

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Title: Busy week
Post by: billscottni on June 28, 2015, 22:25:32 PM

wish we'd had the weather to get out half as much as you did  :(  :!:

Title: Busy week
Post by: Happy Days on July 01, 2015, 06:41:48 AM

Good to see there has been some activity in your neck of the woods Sverrir.

Tell me, do you do much thermal gliding in Iceland?  Sounds like a contradiction, thermal, & Iceland   but you seemed to be succeeding with it.  

L. Keith

Title: Busy week
Post by: selleri on July 01, 2015, 18:14:48 PM

If it's any concelaction Bill this was the best weather by far in weeks if not months!

Me and you both Keith! As long as we have difference in ground and air temperature we can get thermals,
they don't tend to be particularly strong in the winter but they are there when the conditions are right.
The main problem is the heavy wind tends to blow them away in the summer!   :lol:

You can easily stay up for more than an hour after noon in the summer time.

Here is just over 17 minutes, edited down of course, of thermaling last summer,
I came down to tow my mate up and he spent another 20 minutes hanging about until he came down for a flight on his aerobatic plane.

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Title: Busy week
Post by: Happy Days on July 01, 2015, 19:53:49 PM

Rather adventurous bit of flying there Sverrir :D  A double loop!  :clap: You little rascal you!

 Pity about the kangaroo landing though..........Never mind, I wont tell anyone if you don't :wink:

Well done,.......

L. Keith

Title: Busy week
Post by: selleri on July 03, 2015, 02:38:19 AM

The guys were calling for a roll but I had already initiated the second loop.   ;)
Dohh, you saw that, I ran out of B-roll to intercut...    :lol:

Cheers!

Title: Busy week
Post by: Fred on July 17, 2015, 07:59:13 AM

Wait a minute!

So, you did the first flight of the Strega around 2 weeks before you became F3B champion?  :clap:  :clap:

Or that's another one?  :oops:

Title: Busy week
Post by: selleri on July 17, 2015, 14:21:38 PM

Weeeell, yes and no! Same wing and tail, different fuselage.
The first flight on that fuselage with these wing and tail was 10 minutes before the competition started.  

When I bought the Strega it was intended for F3F work and to get some extra flying time away from the slope.
So I also bought the eStrega fuselage seeing as it can use the same wing and tail, two birds, one stone and all that malarkey.   :lol:

I was always getting asked if I wasn't going to put a hook on it but frankly that was never the plan but it got me thinking about it.
So I took some steps to install a hook to the eStrega fuselage and gaining another use for the plane.

(http://frettavefur.net/Forum/uploadpic/2015/1424228105_8.jpg)

Title: Busy week
Post by: Fred on July 17, 2015, 15:50:16 PM

Oh, OK, I see!

And all that to show us your inspiration on the wall  :lol:

Fair play :)

Title: Busy week
Post by: selleri on July 17, 2015, 16:11:15 PM

We still haven't got a 2015 inspiration calendar.  :roll: