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The biggest street party in Fethiye – who would want to miss this? Every year the Calis Carnival party just gets better and better, with top performers, amazing floats and loads of partying people all taking to the streets in bursts of glittering colour. It’s Fethiye’s most famous street party, attracting immense crowds of people each year to the Fethiye area.

Entertainment includes the extravagantly colourful carnival parade, filled with feathered costumes and plenty of dancers, a craft exhibition, workshops, and the colourful extravaganza will culminate with a “Party in the Park” concert on the Sunday afternoon.

Carnival Weekend 2010 will take place on Saturday and Sunday 29/30 May and this year’s theme is “One World”.

There will also be a full programme of activities during the week leading up to Carnival Weekend as well as a fun packed calendar of fundraising social events throughout the year.

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The biggest street party in Fethiye – who would want to miss this?

Pelicans still grace the Fethiye Bay and openly play on the promenade, tossing objects around with their long beaks, not taking much notice of the passers-by that watch them.

Seen approximately 9 months ago, they have caused quite a stir in the Fethiye area, and are proving to be quite an attraction.

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Pelicans grace the bay of Fethiye

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Cheap flights to the UK

A Swiss airline pilot, known as the Rocket Man, has now moved closer to becoming the first man to fly across the English Channel using a jet-powered backpack.

It was all a dream for Mr. Rossy until he made that dream a reality, but it has taken four incredible years for his design of a jet to make this dream a possibility. It was always his dream to fly like a bird and now that has become real he can only expand his ambition. When he was 30 he began learning how to freefall parachute jumping, he then went on to complete 1,200 freefall jumps.

When he first began his flying man project he was a Airline Captain with a commercial company, he strapped a pair of stubby wings and jumped out of an aircraft, freefalling for the loss of 1000ft in altitude
Mr. Rossy went on to make his jet even bigger by making the wings to 8ft using various metals, fiberglass, Kevlar and carbon fiber which then is strapped to his back.

Mr. Rossy first tested these wings back in May when he flew at 8,200ft for more than five minutes after jumping out of the aircraft using his four small engines and using a lever to control the fuel.

Swooping and diving above the skies he then went on to complete a 10 minute test flight over the town of Bex in Switzerland and he reached 180mph as he flew the clear skies over towards Villeneuve and back then deployed his two parachutes at 5000ft and 4000ft to land at Bex with two litres of fuel left in his tank; he traveled for more than 22 miles which is equivalent of crossing the English Channel. His suit that he wears is a heat resistant suit that is the same as worn by racing car drivers.

Clearly enjoying his first public flight, at speeds of up to 186mph, Mr. Rossy tipped his wings, flipped onto his back then leveled out again, performing a 360-degree roll.

In an earlier experimental flight three years ago he lost control and spiraled to just 1,600ft from the ground before managing to open his parachute.

“There have been no proper aerodynamic studies of how to simulate this sort of flying,” he says. “All simulations involve a rigid aircraft. My wings are rigid, but of course I am not.” He steers the contraption, he says, ‘purely by intuition’.

Like a bird, he can adjust his ‘trim’ with incredible precision with the flick of a foot or by simply leaning his body one way or the other. “It is like how a child would fly,” he says. He says his ultimate goal is to take off and land just using his Jet wing without an aircraft to take him into the air. 

He said: “Everything went well, it was awesome, and it’s my longest flight with these wings. If there are no technical problems it’s okay for the English Channel.” Because being truly at one with the air, able to swoop and soar likes a falcon or an albatross, remained impossibility. And in legends where the dream became real, as in the myth of the Ancient Greek birdman Icarus, the price was a heavy one; an ignominious crashing to Earth.

On jumping from the plane he appeared to plummet towards earth, before his fall turned to a glide and he ignited the four small jet engines each of which develops 22kg of thrust attached to the carbon wing. Once under power and using a lever to control the fuel, hehad the freedom to soar where he chose.
By shifting the weight of his body he is able to steer and glide the jet wings and he lands with the aid of the parachute.

Like the semi-mythical flying jet-backpack (which was actually tested by the US military in the 1960s) Yves Rossy’s £150,000 flying machine, which has four, small kerosene-fuelled turbojet engines, wings and fuel weighs only 110lbs, sounds like something out of science fiction.

“It would be a great device for James Bond so he can go behind enemy lines,” he says. “I want to fly, not to steer.”

“Up there in my invention, I am as free as a bird.”

“Best not let the health and safety brigade hear about this.”

On September 24th 2008, Mr. Yves Rossy is due to cross the English Channel and will be broadcasted live across 165 countries by the National Geographic Channel.

He said that his flight is a tribute to all the other people who tried before him, many of them who were killed.

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Rocket Man

Birmingham International Airport is pleased to welcome another high calibre major global network carrier – Turkish Airlines – which has confirmed that it will commence services to Istanbul from 15th December. The new service will offer Midlands travellers the first direct scheduled service to Istanbul from the region.

Turkey’s flag-carrier and member of the Star Alliance global airline grouping will operate five weekly flights to Istanbul and will provide onward flight opportunities within Turkey, the Middle East and the Far East, through its own established route network. 

Turkish Airlines currently has a four star ranking according to SKYTRAX, the world airline star rating programme that ranks airline product and service standards, similar to that achieved by Air France, British Airways, Emirates, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic.

Osman Battal, Turkish Airlines’ Director for UK, said, “Not only can we offer air travellers in Birmingham and the wider region new direct flights to Istanbul, but we are also able to fly people to over 140 onward destinations including Bangkok, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Delhi, Bombay and Singapore. Although we will be launching in December with five weekly flights, we aspire to be operating daily services from Birmingham by summer 2009 and carrying 30,000 of passengers a year by this time.”

The airline will operate a 155-seat mixed configuration Boeing 737-800 aircraft, fitted with 20 seats in business class and 135 in economy.

Flights on Mondays and Thursdays will arrive in Birmingham at 1030 and depart to Istanbul at 1130. The remaining three weekly flights on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays will arrive in Birmingham at 1215 and depart at 1315.

The timings are such to allow the shortest possible connection times to the banks of worldwide departures from Turkish Airlines’ Istanbul hub.

Peter Vella, Birmingham International Airport’s Business Development Director, said, “This news is fantastic, not only because we can boast having one of Europe’s most established and highest quality airlines joining us, but also because the Midlands will have its first direct flight to the ancient city of Istanbul and the excellent range of onward connections across the Middle East and the Asian continent. We look forward to welcoming the airline, which this year celebrates its 75th anniversary, and making the route a great success.”

Turkish Airlines is based in Istanbul and operates a fleet of 107 aircraft to 142 destinations throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States. In 2007 it carried nearly 20million passengers and supports 10,500 employees.

Due to its strategic location astride two continents – Europe and Asia – Turkey’s culture has a unique blend of Eastern and Western tradition and Istanbul is the only meropolis in the world that is situated on two continents. It sits at an international junction for land and sea trade which has enabled it to be the center of the country’s economic life. In fact, the GDP growth rate from 2002 to 2007 averaged 7.4%, which made Turkey one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

Fares from Birmingham with Turkish Airlines start from £180 return, including taxes. Bookings can be made by calling the airline’s reservations number on  0844 800 66 66 , online at www.thy.com or through local travel agents.

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Turkish Airlines Announces New Birmingham Operation

A warning before you decide to overstay your tourist visa;

The Turkish immigration authorities are getting tough on people who over stay their tourist visa.

The new rules are as follows:

Over staying your tourist visa by between 1 and 15 days – There is no restriction on re-entering Turkey but you will have to pay the appropriate visa fines and you will need to obtain your new visa from a Turkish Consulate.

Over staying your tourist visa by 16 days or more – Not only will you have to pay the fines for over staying but you would also need to leave Turkey and would not be allowed entry for 3 months

Over staying your tourist visa by 3 months  – In addition to the fines the person would have to leave Turkey and would not be allowed entry for 6 months.

For greater periods as above with fines but double the refusal of entry times – 6 months over staying, would not be allowed entry to Turkey for 12 months etc.

We think the penalties are very tough as those people who just make a minor date error and inadvertently stay an extra few days will now have to take a special trip to renew their visa outside of Turkey.

So it pays to renew your visa a little bit earlier to allow for any errors.

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Tough New Penalties for Overstaying Your Tourist Visa