Flying with Santa's little helper

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Flying with Santa's little helper

Postby Big-D » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:28 pm

OK, So Darkhelmet and I were getting tired of being stereotyped as your typical Trike flyers – Smelling of petrol and 2 stroke oil, drinking our second beer and having our 5th smoke (Darkhelmet that is, I discovered Zyban) by 9 am after our Saturday morning flight. Sound familiar? Of course it does.

Thus, when the opportunity came to do something semi-decent we jumped at the opportunity.

Our mission: There is a young lady in America suffering from leukemia – Her father had a brilliant idea – There is a particular Elf doll she is very fond of – Her father went out and bought 13 of these and they have been shipped all over the world. The idea is then for this Elf to appear in photo’s of a world tour called “The amazing Elf race”. Photos have been taken of this Elf all over the world and this weekend Santa’s little helper went flying in the Magalies in a Microlight.

We brought in the expertise of Dieselfan being a seasoned photographer and one of the chapter’s in the “Amazing Elf race” to be given to this girl for Christmas will now be of her Elf flying in a trike. (Tied to the A-frame with a cable-tie – It’s the best we could come up with OK…. :? )

We wanted a pic of the Elf in my Microlight with Darkhelmet and AXC in the background – Poor DH virtually stalled his airy to slow down enough for the picture to work.

I hope the pics look OK and pray the girl recovers fully to fly in a trike and experience all these places for herself one day.

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(Diesel, post us some pics dude)
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Postby DieselFan » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:59 pm

Herewith some pics
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Taxiing for takeoff, with DH leading
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DH overtaking us, only cause he's two pax down!
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DH and doll with Magalies in the background
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Postby DarkHelmet » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:10 pm

Awesome DieselFan!!! Please post some more ;)
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Postby DieselFan » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:37 pm

Another one
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Postby Miskiet » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:58 am

Nice work Big D!

Now all you need is to get the Elf a nice logbook and student Pilot's licence!
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Postby Big-D » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:31 am

Howzit Miskiet

Miss you guys at Petit. You okes should fly in to Aviators for a kuier - I will even organise petrol for Mr Antares with his 35l tank

Hope the flying is good at Petit

Cheers

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Postby Ballistic » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:57 am

Hey great pics where is Elf of to next?
Fuel in hangar, runway behind u and alt above u doesn’t help
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Postby Big-D » Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:27 am

Howzit Ballistic

Apparantly our Elf friend is going on Safari next. I have handed him back to the lady organising the SA trip.

Cheers

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