The Outrageous Wales Week

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Re: The Outrageous Wales Week

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Yeah Cracking set of photo's everyone.
Lots of favourites
That C130 at Corris From Frank
The Hawk and Tonka from Marcel Bos
Have to look in to my files to see if there is something more interesting...
I feel the need the need for speed :lol:

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Another C130 in the last sunshine of that day at Cad East
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A hard and long way to the top
Determination and some good friends can get you to the top :D
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One of the guys scanning the area for some fast movers
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Re: The Outrageous Wales Week

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Wales is great, except for the steep climbs to the Bwlch and Cad West. ;-) But once you get up there, the view is magnificent and the action is addictive !

Low level photography in Wales is like doing the hobby in the "old days": You never know what you will get, so you just go out there and hope for the best.

During my first day in Wales, there was a 6 hour gap between flying activities, so there was plenty of time to play around with my camera. The result was a nice 240-degrees panoramic shot from the Bwlch. Check out the sun and my shadow........these should be 180 degrees opposite from eachother.

Location (see Google Earth): 52'44"05.5 N 003' 46" 27.0 W with the center of the image facing roughly to the northeast.

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Roel takes a rest at the Bwlch
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hope you all enjoy

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My small contribution to this topic:

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Great Herc shot Hammie, you really knew how to play with your shutterspeed! IS is a wonderful invent too :) Don't bother to mention your last pic... :D

Here a few more hercs under a gloomy sky, which we had most of the time, except for Monday.

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Man that topside Herc shot is way cool
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Wow! nice pic's aded the last few hours,

two more from this side,

cad east,
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cas east ,
look down for the cars, and left up for the people,

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Hi,

Great pictures everyone! And thanks for the great company I had a wonderful time over there.
Here are a couple of Hercs from me:

Turning towards Bwlch
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Diving down through Cad East
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Hard to be creative with all those great shots! I had an very enjoyable time. Third time for me in the area and I can say this one was the best. Although traffic was very slow compared to the other visits quality was very high, with every day at least 3 Herc's, two Tonka's at one day and two new Hawk T2's from which one was in primer.

Weather conditions were typically Waleserians, monday clear blue skies, tuesday afternoon verry foggy, wednesday morning still foggy and some 150 km from the area clear blue skies, thursday morning foggy and in the afternoon clear blue skies. I you thought the Dutch weather was terrible, you should go to the Mach Loop area.

Thanks for the company guys and the great time!

We waited for the right light conditions and there she was XV290 at Monday late afternoon, already going down, but a fast walk up, at the steepest part, resulted in the below pictures. A higher position had resulted in less air and more mountain.

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It seems you had a nice week all together. It's a sin you didn't find a lot of movements. But I think a trip of this kind is really gorgeaus! and this kind of trip are good also to stay together and have fun!
well done!!!!!!!

ciao gp

PS: btw, great pics!!!!!!!!
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Re: The Outrageous Wales Week

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cas east ,
look down for the cars, and left up for the people,
great shot, really gives an impression of the circumstances of the place....

pfff....how long does the hike from car to the top take? :respect:
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Polecat wrote: great shot, really gives an impression of the circumstances of the place....

pfff....how long does the hike from car to the top take? :respect:

Haha.....only five minutes :!:

The cars that you see in the photo are the cars for Cad West. The photo was taken from Cad East, and that spot has a small car park at only 5 minutes walking distance (behind the photographer).

From the car park to Cad West (the opposite spot from this photo) was 23 minutes for me. And those who know me realize that with my weight of 100+ kg :eating: my camera bag (22 kg) and my condition :oops: anyone should be able to do it in less than 30 minutes. Frank Noort did it in 14 minutes, but he needed some oxygen for a few minutes..... :lol:

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okay, thanks for the info... (It obviously makes it slightly less heroic than it looked, :wink: )

but what a great shots, the fun you guys had "spat van het scherm", as do the pics!

Maybe the RAF benevolend fund should organise an Axalp -like airshow there :-)
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Re: The Outrageous Wales Week

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Hmmm, despite the low number of aircraft, I think this would have to be on my "to do list" for next year!
Great shots guys and gal, congrats and thanks for sharing.

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