Not your everyday clouds....
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Clancy Moped
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Is there anywhere Blevins Franks don't advertise? Weird clouds BTW.
Minerva
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Is it a mountain or just a giant 5g transmitter? 
capnsensible
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I must bee seeing a page without that advert. I got boat rides in Lanzarote.
capnsensible
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capnsensible
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Tiede naked. I took that on a plane last week.
Davy_S
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Clancy Moped
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They know I spoke to your bloke this morning!??
capnsensible
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I tried to just get the pictures but failed. The other two are good too but not as spectacular. Thanks, Davy S.
johnalison
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Clouds are an endless source of interest and sometimes pleasure. I can recommend The Cloud Spotter’s Guide for those who like me have no technical knowledge of the subject, for an easy introduction, amusingly written.
Graham376
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Lenticulars are glider pilot's favourite for height climbs, world record stands at about 52,000 ft.
mikefleetwood
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Didn't get many in Essex when I used to glide...
Graham376
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We used to get wave regularly at Camphill, being a hill site in the Peak district. Best wave flight I had was out of Aboyne, just short of 20,000 ft over Balmoral.
mikefleetwood
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I had a lot of fun over a stubble fire once - until I had to land and let someone else have a play. Glider was a bit smoky afterwards!
Davy_S
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This is pretty good, a friend did it, being a coward i guarded the bar near the beach.
grumpy_o_g
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Yeah, not exactly rare though those are spectacular (and not seen everyday). The problem with the height record is not the lift of course, it's that pressurisation is a challenge in a glider - even using pressure suits over 50K is a getting a bit fraught so they had to build a pressurised glider in the end.
The distance record is over 3,000 km and the duration record is apparently about 3 days though I thought that the Germans actually had someone stay airborne for about 5 days before crashing sometime in the 30's - at which point they stopped trying because it was dangerous and didn't really prove anything (you just fly up and down a ridge for as long as the wind blows, which can be weeks on occasion).