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Nobody can say that you haven't been given notice;
Mount Carmel factory in Zurrieq is 22nd/23rd July.
The best one is St Mary's in Qrendi 14th/15th August.
Air Malta allows booking 331 days before. I booked my economy return seat, including luggage, for £114.50 today. Car hire is €15/day. Digs can be as low as €36/night.
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Made it a sticky Locky so it won’t get lost, thanks for the information.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention. When booking the The €15/day for car hire, if you mention Pyro-gear, it also includes a factory visit to another factory!.
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how many places are there?

Sounds great.
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Most factory’s like to keep the maximum to 12 but I would need to get that confirmed as it could be more.
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Ok, thanks.
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Rob.L. wrote:how many places are there?

Sounds great.
Not sure if you mean spaces or places.
As Ken said above about numbers of people.
Places to visit is huge. I'm not sure if it was 30 odd factories on the island, displays most weekends from June to October. Drone footage of two shows at once 4km appart looked good taken in August.
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The ground fireworks competition is at the end of April if anybody fancies it. Any forum members have been invited behind the scenes by one of the competitors.
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So, the logical thing to do would be to go to Malta in late April and stay there until mid August.

It's tempting, but my cat would never forgive me!
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But if you went home in August you would miss Manwell fire another 38" shell in September
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I'm off to Malta again for a quick visit on the 31/3/17 for four nights. If anybody fancies a factory tour give me a shout.
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Malta festival of fireworks dates,
22/4 in Gozo
28/4 in marsaxlokk
29/4 (ground firework comp)
30/4 closing show by Pyroemotions in Valletta Harbour
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Nice to see they have kept the venue closer together this time.
I think I will be out in Malta this year to meet up in July august sometime.
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I've gotta get a passport and figure out a way to pull a trip there off. Some of those mid level effects are just awesome. It would be a site to behold the way they are set up for sure. Not to mention seeing them shot live.
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Saturday 22 April 2017 - Xaghra, Gozo
- MAKALU Fireworks - Czech Republic
- TemexSon, Pyro Events Team Fireworks Design - Romania
- Kamra tan-Nar 'Madonna tac-Cintura, Gudja - Malta
Friday 28 April 2017 - Marsaxlokk, Malta
- Pyro Italy - Italy
- Mirnovec Pirotehnika- Croatia
- Kamra tan-Nar Santa Marija, Qrendi - Malta
Sunday 30 April 2017 - Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta
- Grand Finale by Pyroemotions and the St.Mary's Fireworks Factory Hal Ghaxaq - Malta

St Mary's, Qrendi on the 28th, good luck Sean
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A brief history of St Mary's factory in Qrendi
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The results of the competition are announced tomorrow. Looks like Sean is in pole position, I will post some pictures (thanks to Ken for making it idiot proof) when I return.
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St Mary's factory came second. Good effort Sean, you should have been the winner's.

I off again on the 16th June if anybody else is free?
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I'm half tempted. What's on offer around that date?
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Mate, loads.
Arrive Thursday and go see Michael at the factory in marsaxlokk, their feast is at this time.
Friday, rooftop in somewhere or another with 4k cues, full site access.
Saturday, marsaxlokk, ( I think,) pre feast shoot, get to shoot if you want, again with Michael and Chris.
Sunday I will be going to Gozo with Sean and Co, they doing the aerial, and a big show with fireTek
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Locky what’s the full duration on this trip
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Well, I'm off on the thursday and leave on Monday. I just booked a return from Gatwick with extra leg room for £200.
If anybody can't do four nights, Friday is big, but Sunday is huge with our friend Sean in Gozo.
I can buddy up for the shows and factory visits but during the daytime I will be busy, 2nd viewing of a pyro-gear crash pad .
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If anyone can make malta for a week in August, the feast in Vittoriosa is the week before St Mary's. So I fly out on the 10th for the last night in Vittoriosa, 11th till the 15th will be St Mary's, 7 different villages. 16th, chilling by the pool. Fly home 17th.
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Can't make it this year, but gonna start tryouts ng to make sbe me plans for a trip that way next year.

Hope y'all have some fun for us.
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I'm lost for words.
What I experienced last night was incredible, St Mary's in Qrendi put on the best pyro experience I have ever been a part of. I'll post a link to video and pics when I can. Well done Sean.
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Sounds Awesome, can't wait for the video.
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Doh!, that's the 'others down the road'.
When I get back I'll try to sort some video, it is a shame though that more than two villages have such spectacular shows on the same night. Last night we stepped back a bit a could watch 4 shows at the same time.
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that's not real on my messenger ? is it ? You're going to tell me it is aren't you.
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Yes, it is
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No clue how that's done. Can't for the life of me work it out.
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I can envision how it might be done, but I think it's too 'delicate' a balance of effects to make work reliably.

I think it's probably an 'artwork' shown as a physical effect. I don't trust the image.

There are a couple of things wrong, but the most-salient issue is the orientation... NOTHING breaks (except by accident) exactly erect to the horizon!

It's still worth exploring, though!

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Firstly the picture wasn't taken by me so I can't be 100% its real.
But please excuse me here because I'm very 'green' when it comes to the designs. Some shells tow a price of ply behind them attached by a length of rope, would this help with the horizontal plane?
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Locky,
An 'orientation device' like a parachute helps, but can't control 'rotation'. We worked a LONG time to find a cost-effective means of doing precise orientation (for a particular theme park customer), and were never able to come up with something that both worked and was affordable.

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Lloyd, I'd be interested to know how you envision it could be done - if you're able to share. Ben, have you got a picture of the plywood tow ?
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Sambo,
We never came up with an economical means to ensure orientation in all three axes. It can be done electronically, but it's very expensive. (now that piezeo-gyros are available, probably less so than 20 years ago when we did our research)

The actual shape could be generated by carefully-placed stars that had a few with 'dark relay' between spark-producing layers, to produce the dark areas. It would be a chore to perfect, but I can envision it's being pretty straightforward from a purely technical standpoint.

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Despite the obvious difficulties that Lloyd points out, I'd love to believe that happened for real!

Could you prevent rotations about any axis by, say, attaching spring-loaded fins and making sure the shell burst before it reached apogee?

Even so, you would need remarkably good timing for every single star.

P.S. This clashed with Lloyd's response.
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Sambo,
I might add, that if the shell were small enough, it could be 'hard mounted' to the top of a tall tower, and shot as part of an ersatz 'set piece'.

Richard, you can control 'roll' with a drag chute or ribbon tail. You can't control spin about that axis, though. All you can do effectively is measure the spin, and explode the shell some number of degrees prior to 'perfect' alignment, based upon the speed of rotation.

Such devices exist already, but add a prodigious cost to a shell.

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You can see some in this bank of 6"
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Do you think those disks stabilise the trajectory of the shell similarly to the effect induced by the drag on the stick of a rocket. I had thought of a "dark relay" being used but just couldn't imagine someone creating and placing all the stars accurately. but actually, if you look, you'd only need 2 types of stars as the location of the eyes is at a similar radius length to the mouth; those with charcoal / relay / charcoal and those with charcoal only.

Could that particular orientation just be good fortune.
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Another picture, turns out it was done with single shots from a 53m tower
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And there you go! Fastening it to a tower guarantees the orientation!

The star design and placement is only a matter of (perhaps long) experimentation, to get the delays just right.

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that's almost a relief Lloyd - less voodoo and more plain common sense - almost like a magician's slight of hand.
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Thanks for keeping me entertained Ben
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For next weekend. Anybody else fancy a few nights away?
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