Who's going to Baberton

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Re: Who's going to Baberton

Postby The Agent » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:10 am

Weereens Rudi die pix is goed en mooi.
Rudi went to a lot of trouble to drive down and be there on Friday but he did some further damage to his ankle and had to drive back in the night.
Toemaar Rudi ons het jou petrol en olie gebere en sal dit die naweek op Rhino aflaai as jy al beter kan loop.
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Re: Who's going to Baberton

Postby Smiley » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:25 am

The Agent wrote:Weereens Rudi die pix is goed en mooi.
Rudi went to a lot of trouble to drive down and be there on Friday but he did some further damage to his ankle and had to drive back in the night.
Toemaar Rudi ons het jou petrol en olie gebere en sal dit die naweek op Rhino aflaai as jy al beter kan loop.
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Thanks for a great weekend in die bos :wink: :wink:

Wow, it was nice seeing such a variety of aeries and boy CC makes me scared with his great up and down flying stunts, what a good pilot he is!! (^^)

Agent thanks for your great commentating and jokes, you're a natural in front of that mic puff puff

I heard the guys struggled Sunday with the headwind back home, fortunetely I flew to Baberton and back in Rudi's RV7, so the strong headwind just made us a bit slower :twisted: :twisted:

To CC and the gang who organized this excellent event, thanks and I hope to see you next year in Baberton again!! vhpy
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Re: Who's going to Baberton

Postby Willie » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:24 pm

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Hi Rudi dankie vir die fotos. Jammer om te hoor van jou pyn. Hoop alles kom gou reg. Ons het ook die vertoning gemis maar Vrydag was steeds die moeite werd.
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Re: Who's going to Baberton

Postby Ian » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:07 pm

Was a great outing, not quite over for Andrew and I tho 8)

We left early Sunday AM, but with a cruise of 85 MPH and reduced power
settings on my Sav (high oil temp due to me not removing some tape from the oil cooler !) ,
we were going nowhere slowly (see the log below), saw Rudi in his RV dissaparing into the West at a rapid rate.. :x

After an hour we decided to return to a field near Barberton called Pyramid where Brian Young made us VERY welcome, insisting we started off with a nice cuppa coffee, then gave us a great sheltered area to harbour the aeries, then arranged a lift for us ( many many thanks Moorees !) to Kruger International where we hired a car and returned to JHB. I understand a further 2 aeries made simailar decisions so Brian has plenty aircraft parked around his lovely field right now.

The entire weekend was spent making new aquaintances with like minded people, anyone who hasn't attended should go before someone finds a way to shut it down just like the fly inns I attended at Orient and Rustenburg in the past. vhpy

Met Peter from Pyramid too who very kindly supplied us with Mogas on Friday - many thanks Sir and thanks Graham for introducing us to Peter vhpy

So the plan is we go down this Friday and fly back Saturday... 2 weekends in a row x country flights - great vhpy
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Re: Who's going to Baberton

Postby Ian » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:40 pm

OK, Interval is over, we drove back to Pyramid Friday and had a wonderful flight back on Saturday AM, caught the wind just right, 2 hours to cover the 190 Miles, bit better that the 17 miles we did in 1 hour the previous Sunday 8)

Spent the night in one of Brian Young's cottages, very nice and cheap ! many thanks for looking after our aeries Brian vhpy

We will certainly be back :)
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Re: Who's going to Baberton

Postby RudiGreyling » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:15 am

Ian wrote:Was a great outing, not quite over for Andrew and I tho 8)

We left early Sunday AM, but with a cruise of 85 MPH and reduced power settings on my Sav (high oil temp due to me not removing some tape from the oil cooler !) , we were going nowhere slowly (see the log below), saw Rudi in his RV dissaparing into the West at a rapid rate.. :x

After an hour we decided to return to a field near Barberton called Pyramid where Brian Young made us VERY welcome,<SNIP>
Hi Ian,

Eish with a 23MPH ground speed no wonder you guys turned around. Are you going to Tempe for EAA Sun-n-Fun?

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Re: Who's going to Baberton

Postby Ian » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:13 am

RudiGreyling wrote: Hi Ian,

Are you going to Tempe for EAA Sun-n-Fun?

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Unfortunately not, I have 100 hours on the Sav and need to do maintenance first... :(

You enjoy !

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