Colin made a short testflight with Ian’s GeeBee. It sounds very nice with that twin-cylinder engine!
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Wings and Wheels and a Rapide
The usual trip to Wings and Wheels incorporated a change to our normal routine this year, choosing to attend Wings and Wheels on the Sunday. Michael unfortunately couldn’t make it this year and a friend of Owens, Jack, took up the offer to travel with us!
We decided to visit Duxford Imperial War Museum on the Saturday, and after our pilot and navigator (who won’t be in the front next year!) took a slight deviation from our route (I think at one stage we passed a sign for Glasgow!), we arrived just before lunchtime and began the tour around this vast site.
We took a few photo’s so I wont go into what we seen but suffice to say there is plenty to see and do and all tastes in aircraft are catered for. The American flight Museum is crammed full of planes and would take a few hours just to take it all in. (more…)
And we had a us a party..
Not quite a barn raising event, but close. We raised the old trailer, (‘we’ as in onlookers, the tractor did the hard work) and moved it to it new and likely final resting place. As you can see the troops were out in force, and after the horses finally departed, quite a lot of planes took the air. Some had more succesful landings then others, but that did not spoil the general fun.
Below some shots of this historic event (I know, mobile phone quality..), but luckily Richard had a better camera for the really important bits.
Easter Monday, Dennis O'Hara Memorial Fly-in
Cold and windy it was, but the turnout was great, there was plenty of food and the kettle was always on the fire. What more does a man want?
(Don’t answer).
A good time was had by all as the saying goes.
..nothing stops a Letterkenny man!
Gerry put a few pics on the UMAC website, so feel free to have a looksee.
Of course we were all brave enough to fly in 25 mph winds, but we don’t need to show that. We know we can.
