Busy week-end anyone?

Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:23 pm

Hi guys!

Talk about a busy two days...

Saturday I took the P-3 up to, ahem, clear the plugs. All went well, then I landed and was enjoying my first meal of the day, at noon, when my helicopter instructor called.

He told me to move it and come ASAP to the base. So I flew with the P-3 there and we jumped in a Bell 206 to go give some rides. That gave me 0.6 hours in the Bell. I returned to the airport very late with the P-3.

This morning, I got an early call. They told me to get hold of the WX, and then to fly 300NM to the east to pick up goods. Which I did, another 4 hours of flight with the Focke-Wulf in my pocket!

Some weeks are better than others!

So, what have you done this week-end?

:lol:

Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:26 pm

Ollie wrote:So, what have you done this week-end?

I stripped paint from my horizontal stabilizer and flap...

Sun Aug 15, 2004 6:14 pm

Today, NOTHING!
Woke up at 9:30 looked at some pictures from FL. (what a shame)
Made breakfast at 11, had lunch at 4, got some groceries and im back here looking at a live cam from duval st. now its around 7

Yesterday I went to Westover,

Wed, Thur, Fri, I was sent to westfield (KBAF) to help out on a Citation inspection 1000 miles in 4 days

thats why today I did nothing!

Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:43 pm

I spent friday (in the pouring rain) and saturday (in the VERY deep mud) at the 47th annual Stowe antique and classic car show in Stowe Vermont. I was there with the MV club that I am a member of and I was on the M3A1 Stuats support crew, driving the M 52 Diamond T tractor. The field was closed on friday during the rain to all cars in an attempt to keep the field in some sort of shape for saturday. On saturday the sun came out but the field was a quagmire. The only things able to move without help were the militarys and the Model A's and T's. What few brass era cars that dared the field also had no trouble (so long as you don't mind a little mud on the fenders). The tank, as usual, was the hit of saturdays parade, however we thought for a time that we were in trouble. As we started the route (some eight miles long) a plug fouled and we lost a cylinder in the bottom of the engine (a seven cylinder Continental radial). A quick check by the side of the road as the parade marshalls tried to get folks lined up showed that we could not reach it to change it out so it was decieded to run on just six as the route was all down hill from the point where we were. Fortune smiled on us however because of the wonderful :roll:

job of traffic control provided by the Stowe police department. We no sooner started of toward town when the parade bogged down for 20-30 minutes. John, the tanks owner and driver, was able to sit in trafic with the engine at a high idle until the fouled cylinder cleared. With the theame from Kelly's Heros blaring from a loud speaker on the turret the rest of the parade went off without a hitch.

Then we had to load the whole mess onto it's trailer, in the mud, for the journey home. But thats another story....

Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:41 am

So, what have you done this week-end?

Unpacked from my trip, and started sorting through the 6000+ digital photos I took at PFA Kemble, Flying Legends, RIAT Fairford, Farnborough, Oshkosh, Old Rhinebeck and various museums in between.

If you had a favourite plane at any of those shows, chances are good that I have an out-of-focus, under-exposed picture of some inconsiderate d**khead walking in front of it.

Cheers,

Brett

Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:23 am

Brett wrote:If you had a favourite plane at any of those shows, chances are good that I have an out-of-focus, under-exposed picture of some inconsiderate d**khead walking in front of it.

You mean he made it to your airshow as well!?!?!? :lol:

Mike

Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:42 am

Ummm.... I shot down some Me109s and OV-10 Broncos (acting as Luftwaffe bombers) on the PlayStation! :twisted:

Then I got bored of that and watched Days of Thunder.

Then spent Saturday/Sunday with my mad girlfriend. Watched The Bourne Supremacy - good flick, but not better than the first (which rocked!)

Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:22 am

Busy weekend indeed,

My better half had booked a weekend arrangment in a 4-star hotel near Nijmegen, as a birthday gift. Apart from just being lazy we managed to visit some museums on saturday (3!!! :shock:

). First one was the National Liberation Museum in Groesbeek. Mostly a photo-exposition about the war in general but also about Market Garden. Most interesting thing was the cockpit section of a Waco Hadrian and some recovered propblades. Then we went to the Airborne Museum Kasteel Hartenstein in Oosterbeek. Very interesting museum with a lot of lifelike dioramas in the basement and some bits and pieces of Airspeed Horsa's. The displays about the battle around Arnhem was very impressive (60 years ago next month). The we went to the musem of DAEG based at Deelen, a former Luftwaffe and RNethAF airfield. It had been some time ago since I visited but I was stunned to see the Stirling fuselage section recovered last year, the complete canopy of a Hamilcar glider as well as a lot of pieces of Hadrian's including a complete centre fuselage section. Further we just did wat we wanted to do at that moment (saw I,Robot yesterday, great movie). Got back this morning and spent the rest of the afternoon clearing the attic. We have two weeks of holiday now and I intend to enjoy it.

Cheers

Cees

Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:35 pm

Col. Rohr wrote:Well Ollie,

Went back to the hotel had dinner then went and caught a show near the I-Tower, then went a caught The Drop Kick Murhys at a local Punk club great show.

Cheers A Very Tired Col.

That sounds like a blast, I can't wait for them to come around here again!