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Kestrels MFC is all about FLYING ! In addition to flying at Kesh
every week, we regularly
support other club fly-ins and fly at indoor venues throughout the year. Here
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 | Saturday/Sunday 26th and 27th March 2011 |
Andreas has invited us down to his private runway with jets and whatever else we
want to fly.
| Saturday/Sunday 11th and 12th December 2010 |
Indoor competition time. We have entered F3P A
and B,
pylon racing, freestyle, aeromusical and synchro this year. |
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| Saturday/Sunday 9th and 10th October 2010 |
Andreas invited us back for another jet weekend.
Windy on Saturday but much better weather on Sunday.
The barbeque was lit but some were in a hurry to get
the sausages cooked! |
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Running low on fuel and
all chargers in use for non-stop flying. |
| Saturday 4th September 2010 |
NI Area Aerobatics 2010 Round 2 at Newbuildings.
An excellent turnout despite heavy rain in the morning.
The rain stopped, the sun came out and everyone
flew their 3 rounds of Basic, Sportsman and
Intermediate IMAC schedules. |
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Congratulations to Seamus on winning 1st place
flying a jet for the 1st time in an NI Area
Aerobatics Competition.
Thanks to Matthew, David and the guys at NWMAC
for a well run event and a great day out. |
| Sunday 15th August 2010 |
14th/15th August Letterkenny Jet Fly-in
was moved further south and had a big gathering
of jet flyers with fantastic weather.
Harry and Robert used all their fuel, Seamus
can't have had much left either with 50 flights
between the three of them.
Andreas had the runway in superb condition. |
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Some superb big models with a long runway
and lots of space. |
A lucky shot of a fast low pass.
Should have got a picture of 3 or 4 in the air together. |
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This is a big model with over 5 litres of fuel,
so there's plenty of time for fast passes.
John standing with Andreas in the sunshine. |
Coming in to land, slowing down well. |
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| Saturday 31st July 2010 |
Erne Vintage Club Charity Event at Castle Archdale.
Ken is somewhere in the tent with a mug of tea. |
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Helicopters always get the spectators asking questions.
How much is it? How high can it go? How fast?
How does it stay upside down? |
A huge display of vintage cars, engines and tractors. |
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| Saturday 18th July 2010 |
| Sunday 4th July 2010 |
NI Area Scale flying competition - postponed due to bad weather.
| Sunday 27th June 2010 |
Helicopter fun-fly day at New Buildings
Sunday 27th June, 11am |
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| Saturday 19th June 2010 |
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NI Area Funfly at Banbridge |
Climb and glide
Touch and go
Triple trash
Limbo |
The Results:
1st - Matthew
3571.63
2nd - Gordon 2695.16
3rd - Alistair
1991.38
4th - Iain
1871.24
5th - Richard 1695.70
6th - Kees
1604.65
7th - Paul
1469.72
8th - Dennis
1358.67
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| Fri-Sun 28th/29th/30th May 2010 |
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It's IMAC time again already!
Friday/Saturday/Sunday 28th-30th May.
More pilots this year with some superb models.
See www.imac-ni.org.uk
for more information. |
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IMAC 2010, 28th-30th May
A special OAP spectator seating area this year
Matthew thinks of everything! |
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It's amazing what secret skills some of the IMAC pilots have.
Apart from playing the drums this man does the talking
when things need sorting out.....
(You had to be there on Saturday night!) |
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| Saturday 15th May 2010 |
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NWMAC Scale day on Saturday brought out the
real flying scale models. Here is the Stearman flying
past at low level making light of the crosswind.
Prizes were awarded to those models judged
by all of the pilots to have looked and flown well. |
| Sunday 25th April 2010 |
NI Area Aerobatics Competition Round 1 at Ballymoney.
This Kestrels group travelled to the NIAA
Aerobatics round 1 at Ballymoney; somewhere in the
picture is 1st, 2nd, 3rd in Sportsman and 5th,6th in
Basic. 20 pilots entered this event and everyone enjoyed
the day. Thanks to Matthew and Trevor for another
very well organised Aerobatics competition. |
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| Saturday 24th April 210 |
First Eskragh splash-in for 2010 at Dungannon.
| Sunday 18th April 2010 |
Letterkenny fly-in at Blackhill.
| Sunday 11th April 2010 |
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The first of Kestrels BMFA achievement days at
Blackhill
brought more fine sunny weather and flying.
The Letterkenny Prangster display team were entertaining
everyone with their close flying low level routine.
Lots of tests with visitors from Ballymoney, North Down
and Donegal; Nigel has the huge runway in perfect condition. |
| Saturday 10th April 2010 |
Flying at Letterkenny model flying club airstrip.
| Monday 5th April 2010 |
Dennis O'Hara Memorial Day at Nutts Corner.
| Sunday 14th March 2010 |
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Jet flying display at Enniskillen for the
dragster racing day.
Three jets in the air together looked good and sounded great.
Matthew put on a fine display with his models too. |
| Friday 12th March 2010 |
Banbridge table sale.
| Sunday 28th February 2010 |
NIJets practice day at Ballykelly.
| Saturday 6th February 2010 |
NIJets practice day at the NDMAC flying site.
Superbly organised by Phelim who booked good weather
for the day with excellent flying conditions.
There was great enthusiasm to fly Matthew's schedules
and 9 pilots demonstrated the Basic schedule.
The Competition Prizes went to:
Best Flight: Robert
Best Scale Model: Gordon
Most flights: Harry and Seamus
Distance travelled: Andreas
Many thanks to NDMAC for their hospitality.
Click here to visit
their website photograph page.
Click here to see a flypast. |
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| Sunday 24th January 2010 |
A sunny Sunday at Letterkenny with lots of jet
flying.
This is the Extreme Flight Extra 300 which, alongside
the H9 Carden Yak and the other EF Extra, was running
through the 2010 IMAC Sportsman schedule. |
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More jet flying at Letterkenny, Seamus is burning
lots of kerosene and really enjoying his Boomerang.
Three Boomerangs, the Harpoon and the L39 all flew
in the windy conditions.
We were well fed at Seven Towers on Saturday
with another Jet outing. Their grass strip must be
one of the best in the country.
Click here to see some video from Broughshane. |
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