ML's at EAA

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Was most impressed by the 3 ship micro display. The flares and landing was a nice touch

Well done guys. Pity were not more ships.

Also was the Papa 5151 Rob McF's rebuilt or another. Was under impression Rob's was "Who Flung Dung". This had another name and not same insignia's.... Nice looking aerie though..

[The Agent]

Something I found funny was that there were no stealth fighters on display or did I miss them?

[Bennie Vorster]

Come on guys show me the pics.

I can't belive that no one went to an arie show without a camera except for the 2 pics the Duck placed.

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Spent whole day between the giant jumping castle/slide thingy and the Harvard Club Harvard. Lighty is Harvard bedonered. Other one kept telling Helm that it was too old and could def not fly....

Have some nice pics of it if you are interested

[Rudix]

Great show ! I really enjoyed seeing the ML's there. I have some more (900+ ) photos here:

http://rudix.servepics.com/EAA2006/index.htm

Regards,
Rudi

[Arnulf]

Rudix wrote:

Great show ! I really enjoyed seeing the ML's there. I have some more (900+ ) photos here:

Is dit nou genoeg pics Bennie?

Ek hoop jy gaan hulle almal kyk.



Great pics Rudix.

[Sleeper]

I think the Trike display was excellent. A lot better than last year even though there were a lot less planes.

But you could see that the guys went out of their way to give a brilliant show, with the smoke from the wingtips and the bogroll-cutting...

Excellent guys. You really held our name high!

[Sonex711]

I think the Trike display was excellent. A lot better than last year even though there were a lot less planes.

But you could see that the guys went out of their way to give a brilliant show, with the smoke from the wingtips and the bogroll-cutting...

Excellent guys. You really held our name high!

Agreed... Awesome display guys... You did all MPL's proud.

[Sleeper]

Come on guys show me the pics.

I can't belive that no one went to an arie show without a camera except for the 2 pics the Duck placed.

Bennie, you won't believe what I have done. Arrived at the show with camera, but with no memory card inside

So, sorry. No pix. Hopefully Rudix's 900 pix is enough.

[Oddball]

Hello there guys,

Thanks very much for the compliments! The pilots were David Levy, Steve Yap and I. We practiced a lot for the show and went through a few iterations around what to actually do. I put a lot of time in to getting the smoke working, first using my own recipe, which didn't produce enough smoke, and then with a commercial mix.

None other than Scully Levin came to us to tell us how much he enjoyed the show and how impressed he was with the landings. Several other of the top airshow pilots (Larry Beamish, Mark Billing and others) said similar things. After we landed on Saturday even the ATC lady congratulated us (the Mazda Zlins before us got no such accolade!).

Even though we handed a two page description to Brian the commentry was very poor, well non esistant actually (although there were apparantly TV cameras filming who wanted him to keep quiet...). On Sunday we had Rob McFie to do the commentry (he did a great job I am told) and they also patched me to the PA from the cockpit- the show was apparantly even better!

EAA treated us like royalty and really looked after us. It was a pity that not more pilots camped over- they gave us a golf cart for the evening, braai packs and generally looked after us very very well. I will be publishing thanks to them later as well.

Thanks to all of you who came along, flying or not. Thanks to those who flew in as well; good to see the line of trikes standing there!

Oddball

PS The Mustang is Rob McFie's; it has had a new paint job and name.

[Bennie Vorster]

O I whish I was there

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[RudiGreyling]

Some of my comments on the ML show that I saw on Saturday.

Averall the impression was good.

Commentary was bad and non existant on Saturday, what a pitty. The commentators could have done an excellent job but didn't, left the spectators just to watch.

The landing sequence was impressive, one hoping over the other.
The bog droll cutting was impressive, a little to far of field, and the commentators could have done an excellent setup to it but didn't, so one only realise 1/2 through what is actually happening.
The smoke on wingtips was excellent.

Points to improve on for next run (constructive critism)
1) There is a lot of dead time when you guys setup after the first pass, I don't know the reason for it? Maybe think about splitting the team into 2 keeping the crowd occupied while the other portion setup and gain height for manuevers.
2) With the 3 man squad slow spiral manuevers the man on the back battled to keep formation.

Well done you guys made me proud!

Regards
Rudi

[Thunderboy]

just seeing if this one works first then Ill put some more

[Thunderboy]

a Viper, I think it was ( Agent told me it was from way before my time)




In Russia they have a squadron of these every 500km along their border. Their border line is longer then it is from here to Moscow. They are also very robust, stay outside in the snow with just the battery disconected and then are started up when ever needed.


A Savanah for those interested. Try see how fat the wheels are.


Gareth Davies doing a wing over in a Thunderbird

[Thunderboy]

Sasol Jets According to Morph, They're Aero Vodochody L-29 Delfin Akrobat jets from Russia originally although these bought from Checheslovakia

[/b]OddBall awesome flying saturday, could you explain a bit more how the smoke works, maybee show some pics of the machine that does it??