| Sunday flying news (Feb 10th) |
| Tuesday, 10 February 2009 00:00 |
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The weather was dry with a slight breeze across the runway. Visibility was reasonably good even though the conditions were slightly dull. It was a busy flying session with as many as five planes in the air at times. Nick Jordan brought along his Pilatus PC9 and Speed Air and flew both, the Pilatus first and the Speed Air for the remainder. Nick said that the Speed Air was an easier fly as it was slower that the PC9, though he enjoys the PC9 too. Nick spent time honing his inverted flying with the Speed Air, all those flying hours are certainly paying off. Paul Farrell had his Travel Air at the field again. Paul recently fitted a Thunder Tiger GP40 to the Travel Air after having lots of dead stick landings previously with the MDS40 due to mid flight engine cuts. Paul said that he was delighted to report that the only time the Thunder Tiger engine stopped in the air was due to running out of fuel. As a result Paul got plenty of flying time this week. Angus Balfour flew his Adrenaline and demonstrated some impressive prop hanging among other maneuvers. At one point we though Angus was going to reach out and grab the Adrenaline, it was so close (see gallery). John Sweeney has demonstrated great improvements in his flying lately but his Tutor suffered some damage today ending his flying the day. John says he’ll be back in business very soon. Also flying were Gerry Shanley, Sean Ledwith(with his son Jack), Gerry Farrell and Brendan Boylan with Liam Reilly, Dave Foley and David Furneaux in training mode. |
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