Snake spotted in Tzaneen

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Snake spotted in Tzaneen

Postby kraaines » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:11 pm

The Snake Team did an excellent display this weekend past,

thought I'd show some of the Banner & pyrotechnics
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Postby RV4ker (RIP) » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:20 pm

Nice...
Is the banner a new addition? :wink:
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Snake

Postby kraaines » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:48 pm

I Believe it was a 1st

:oops: forgot 2 resize
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Postby Hot Stuff » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:31 pm

That is awesome, nice pics
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Postby Quentin Ferreira » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:41 pm

Nice pics!!

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Postby nicow » Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:02 pm

Makes me proud to be a Microlight pilot.
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Postby Big-D » Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:08 pm

And such a nice plane too :lol:

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Postby Free Spirit » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:22 pm

We have a team of 8 Microlites here in AbuDhabi that specialise in the snake, smoke and pyros routines. Never seen that anywhere in the world. good to know SA it catching up. It should be an airshow routine....
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Postby Oddball » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:59 pm

Hey there guys- thanks for the comments; we debuted the snake tube at Tzaneen. Its 200m long and about 30cm in diameter. So far I do not feel it too much behind me, although I can feel the 'jump' when I release it. One just has to watch the tail end as it can hang quite far below your line of flight...

Apparantly it also seems to smooth out the turbulence a bit- when Steve formated on me in a practice he noticed that he was moving around a lot in the turbulence whilst I was relatively stable.

Have sent you a pm Free Spirit. Have seen film of your show- absolutely fantastic! =D*

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Postby Bennie Vorster » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:26 pm

Waar op aarde word die kontrapsie aan die tryke ge monteur? :shock: :roll:

Ek dink jy sal net versugtig moet wees dat iemand nie op die ander punt staan wanneer jy opstuig nie. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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Postby nicow » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:49 pm

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Op jou E ratkas is daar 'n plek -die gat is deur die middel van jou prop,sodat die wind van die prop jou banier agtertoe waai.
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Postby velocity » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:10 pm

Oddball wrote:Hey there guys- thanks for the comments; we debuted the snake tube at Tzaneen. Its 200m long and about 30cm in diameter. So far I do not feel it too much behind me, although I can feel the 'jump' when I release it. One just has to watch the tail end as it can hang quite far below your line of flight...

Apparantly it also seems to smooth out the turbulence a bit- when Steve formated on me in a practice he noticed that he was moving around a lot in the turbulence whilst I was relatively stable.

Have sent you a pm Free Spirit. Have seen film of your show- absolutely fantastic! =D*

Jay
Great show again Jay - loved the tube. I guess we need to go longer than 200m now... :wink: This banner is about 50m so will tie a couple together and see how they fly :P (thanks to Pete for the pic www.planekrazy.co.za)
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