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![]() Open to debate, but are the the Southern Ocean Albatross who land only to breed and weather storms the best Glider pilots in the world? Regardless of our discussion, they regularly circumnavigate the globe without flapping a wing doing 10,000km without flapping a wing via dynamic soaring.... SAVE YOUR STAMPS. SAVE THE ALBATROSS YET... These guys have 22 species under threat of death and extinction only due to people carrying out industrial fishing. 100,000 Albatross (glider pilots!) die each year on the end of a hook. That is one every 5 minutes. The Albatross needs your help if it's not to become extinct. We have a campaign going in the UK that could be boosted massively by the non UK residents reading this post. We are simply after your used postal stamps. http://www.savethealbatross.net Save your stamps and save The Albatross.. just click on the link above to read a bit about their 'Dynamic Soaring' These guys have been around for 50 My years, 100 times longer than us land only to breed and weather storms, do XC of 10s of thousands of Km when they circumnavigate the south pole regularly by means only of dynamic soaring. I've advised my club chairman, John Williams not to get any ideas for Antarctic expeditions as he's acheived quite enough record breaking soaring in Scottish Wave... Beating 8,600 pilots in 22 European countries; You'll actually have to go to page 3, we Celts are so modest! http://www.portmoak.force9.co.uk/latestpmpress.pdf Enjoy the above but it's still a fact! YOU can help the Albatross Click here http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/ca...ss/support.asp Save your stamps, save The Albatross NOTE!! every stamp contributes, but INTERNATIONAL STAMPS ARE WORTH 12 TIMES MORE when sent to the UK address. Anyone out there working for the RBS group - Citizens / ABNAmro / Worlpay etc email me direct as I am setting up links in the internal post. Any other glider pilots looking for a great charitable cause to put your emotional energy into in 2008 - could this be it? |
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