Both Reggie and Richard Boyd flew in the Area Thermal Championships, in Richards words “ it was a fantasic days flying ”
This was our first time to fly of a winch and it was extremely exciting.
We got of to a great start but had a few poblems in the second round hence the lower placing.
Roll on [...]
Posts under ‘Gliding’
NI Area Open Thermal Champs 8th Aug 2010
Rounding up the Cows
I have seen some crazy flying in my time but using your glider to round up the cows sure takes the biscuit !
Great music for us country folk !
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Bank Holiday Monday on the Slope, EPP FOX
I was jointed by John Pearson and Bill Scott for a wonderful days flying on the Dungannon clubs slope site.
A wee video of the fox Epp glider in action.
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Wild Bill and Half Pipe Pearson
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Gliding from the Beach
I had a great days gliding on Tuesday thanks to Andrew Wallace , NI King of the Slope.
This is a wee sample of what we got up to. You cannot hear the laughing but I can assure you we had plenty of them.
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Blaster F3K flown by my Lithuanian friends
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Mind blowing glider skills !
Thanks Donatas and Richardas
New Blaster 2 Lite DLG Build
expressfly Blaster 2 lite build
I recently acquired a New Blaster 2 Lite DLG glider from expressfly . Having flown the Blaster 2 DLG last season, I was really looking forward to flying the New Lite version.
The Blaster 2 Lite is a rudderless lite version of my old Blaster 2 plus the aileron servos are now installed in the [...]
Biggest B52 in the UK and Ireland Flys
Finally yesterday 23rd of February weather conditions were perfect for John to maiden his scratch build B52 PSS glider. Winds were gusting to 30mph on the East facing slope of Slieve Gallion and wind chill factor felt like -30 , man it was so cold up there !
John called for me at 11am and of we [...]
Slope Soaring at Moneymore
John flying in the evening light
Richard and I took a trip to the mountains at Moneymore for a spot of slope soaring the other evening, The wind was blowing approx, 15 – 20 mph onto the west slope ‘I think ?’ being the first time flying from this site. The lift was good, with a [...]
So you want to get fit?
How about building a DL50? That should get the muscles moving!
There are a few rcgroup threads to have a look at:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=273823
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=306465
The rest of the story is here and here
Slope Soaring with NIMSA
John Pearson from the Dungannon club joined the NIMSA pilots on Sunday for a day on the slopes in the Antrim hills. John test flew his new PSS B52, an all balsa construction build from the RM Green plans. With a wing span of nearly 80″ and an AUW of only 6LBs, the model performed [...]
