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Hang Glider in Mullingar Today.

platinums · 2014-01-22 16:09:24

I saw a hanglider around the Joe Dolan bridge today, i stopped a while. Pretty cool to see this during my lunch break. While i was watching them, it occurred to me the area is relatively flat and open. Now although from when i saw them they were at least 15 minutes up bobbing on thermals, there didnt look to be much of a…

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22-01-2014 5:09pm

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platinums

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I saw a hanglider around the Joe Dolan bridge today, i stopped a while. Pretty cool to see this during my lunch break.

While i was watching them, it occurred to me the area is relatively flat and open.

Now although from when i saw them they were at least 15 minutes up bobbing on thermals, there didnt look to be much of a breeze on the trees at ground level... so how did they launch?!

The area is about 20-30 ft undulating with the bridg being the median point.. hardly jumped off the bridge.

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#2 02-02-2014 3:03pm
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he would have came xc(cross country) using thermals,pop from one to the next,take off was prob upwind of mullingar at some mountain

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