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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22452 Location: UK
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4107 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Bought my wife a balloon trip from Virgin Flights a couple of years ago, took off from Whichurch Rugby Club, headed towards Shrewsbury, really enjoyed it and even spotted a classic or 2 !
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Rick Site Admin
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: Hot air balloons |
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Rick wrote: | I'm not sure my head for heights would cope too well, has anyone here tried hot air ballooning?
After what happened in Egypt recently I can see bookings generally slowing, for a while at least.
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maybe things wouldnt go so bad if it had a proper operator, instead of a camel jockey.
this is not a solo incident, there were a interwiev on the Danish news, with a couple, who had a simelar experience in Egypt not long ago. _________________ http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4107 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: | Neat photos, we get the odd balloon over here.
R | You will have seen that same balloon Rick, they frequently take off from Whitchurch, and go in the direction of the air currents!, there is also a blue one with Stan Something written on it, apparently they often take off at similar times, as it did when we flew, it was behind us, with Whitchurch in the background.
Keeping the aviation theme, we flew over the old RAF Tilstock base at Prees, you can make out the old overgrown runways
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Rick Site Admin
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ukdave2002
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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It was a great experience, the landing was a tad dramatic as they often are, the pilot wanted to avoid planted crops, so attempted to land at the edge of a field...over shot and the balloon envelope straddled a hedge and a road ripping the envelope on landing (which was at 90 degrees at the end!)
30 seconds after landing the pilot was phoning a firm about a repair, which was organised for the next day
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Rick Site Admin
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ukdave2002
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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Rick
Are you up for a flight now
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Mog
Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 661 Location: Sydney
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There was a fatal accident at Alice Springs, some years ago. My mates best man and wife were killed, they did not have any children. Before they left home they hid her jewels in the garden, around the house. They were never found again even with a metal detector. |
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Rick Site Admin
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