MrH

My videos aren't nicely produced like Ignition's (nice job by the way:), just raw footage bumped together.

 

For those who couldn't make it here is a glimpse of what we saw over the weekend.

 

Apologies for all the wind noise - pretty annoying especially when you really just want to listen to that Spitfire ;)

 

Be warned the videos are quite long as I didn't cut them back.

 

Cheers

 

H

 

If you want to wade through long videos theres one of aircraft there & the last bit the Tandem aerobatics of the Pitts:

 

 

 

and a few more

 

H

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some more pictures

 

H

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I went and had a good time, met up with Ross Millard and his wife, made some new friends & enjoyed the air shows. The Spitfire just sounds great & looks beautiful. Matt Hall was sensational on the Saturday, as was his forum.

 

Yes numbers were down, a LOT less underwing campers and number of campers in general. As others have mentioned there were quite a few people with young families, that was great to see.

 

Regular big name distributers were there but not much else to rummage through and spend dollars on. Not even a pilot shop. I would hate to see the event disappear so I'll still support it next year.

 

Here are some pictures.

 

Cheers

 

H

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nope, not going, would have gone but getting married (bride to be may not see the funny side of delaying the wedding so I can go again.)

She got the tie downs on you already

 

H

 

 

Hey MM I'll be there again. Driving up and will have space for gear if you need

 

Cheers

 

H

 

 

Look down the mountain - your water used to drain into my place.

Hey that's a bit rough Djp, that was some other bloke above you, I drain down to another fellow below me he adds to it and sends on to the bloke below him then it drains down through the forest.

 

My complaint is the money to the council has never gone to any effort by them to actually manage the drainage

 

H

 

 

We're on tank water too and don't pay anything for water/sewage/rubbish in the rates... yet...

 

Give some greedy Councillor a little time & they will be onto it >:(

 

 

Well we pay around $140 P/A to the greedy Yarra Valley and we are on 0ur own Tank Water....mind $75 is for Parks but they claim the rest is for drainage, mmmmm, there isn't anything in place for drainage.

 

H

 

 

Great pics Neil. Wish I could have made it but family came first, hopefully next year.

 

H

 

 

OOoooooo.... sounds good, think I'll try & make that! Been trying to get to a Tyabb Airshow for a while.

 

Guess another boring video coming up, Ha, Ha :)

 

Hey Vev, you flying your beautiful aircraft in the show?

 

Cheers

 

H

 

 

Wat to go AJ - onwards & upwards :)

 

H

 

 

I like a landline as a further backup in bad weather fires etc - living in the hills mobile reception is bad any way so I'll stick to all forms :)

 

H

 

 

The replies made me laugh even more ... Thanks everyone for that humour :)

 

 

That is one beautiful aircraft Captain

 

H

 

 

That looks extremely nice Captain Rat. Do you have a photo of it ready to fly?

 

Looking forward to catching up with you at NATFLY

 

H

 

 

Narromine 1979 - Pristine Blaniks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure if I have any more films & the bulb in the old projector has blown.

 

I'm yet to find a replacement.

 

H

 

 

Mine (I call it "Naglady") keeps telling me ..."Bear left...."

 

I'm still looking but haven't seen one

 

H

 

 

Peugeot 504 ? a while back MrH. nev

Hi Nev,

 

I loved the old Pug 504's - great car in their era.

 

H

 

 

If 124NM is local. I have a few old pix from '77. might dig them out one day and fly over there.

oops .... should have lead with an "IF.." it would be a nice overnighter though :)

 

 

Thank you!The old super 8 at Benalla brings back a few memories. Was that Mike Valentine with the Kookaburra, I saw. And Bill Sherwell in the Chippie, too?

 

Kaz

Sorry Kaz I can't help you there.

 

I saw the gliders when passing through Benella & pulled in to watch.

 

I didn't know anyone there.

 

H

 

 

The first is some low quality Super8 of gliding at Benella (Think I had ASA 400 film for some stupid reason)

 

The second is a video I did on my way back from my honeymoon :) Very early video so VHS quality.

 

 

 

Yep, Mick Doyle sent me solo, and John Rowe took me through spins and loops in a Twin Astire. At the end of the day he loved to swoop over and dump ballast water on us.

John Rowe also liked to collect the (Japanese) out landed aircraft the fly them back INVERTED the whole way, just to keep himself amused!

 

What brought all this reminiscing on was a Sunday night BBQ at the Gliding club after Ausfly this year.

 

Beryl seemed to have all the history & it made me dig back into my dark & dingy boxes of junk.

 

Your local so you should go to their Saturday/sometimes Sunday night BBQ's - good price for lots of food & drinks, also could bring lots

 

more memories once you get chatting.

 

H

 

 

Great memories, H. I did two one-week stints in '76 and '77. Our lectures were held in the old WWII fibro building which collapsed while they were trying to relocate it a few years back.

An indelible memory is when just before takeoff Mick, the instructor suddenly got out and closed the canopy. Focusses the attention and boosts the ego all at once.

 

I loved the end-of-day "hangar flight" when I could land Blanic UX fast, close the flaps and roll around the taxi way and line up to enter the hanger that was later demolished.

 

Should be a law against old farts reminiscing...

Ha Ha!!

 

Would that be Big Red Beard Mick Doyle?

 

He was flying the tug the day I did my 5hrs - he took me into the centre of a thermal & started circling. I wasn't sure what was going on at first, quite an unconventional method

 

from the normal straight up.

 

I saw him furiously waving at me to unhook, it was virtually a slingshot into the sky, ha ha.

 

I also remember the end of day - John Rowe the CFI flew me once. We had barley lifted off the ground & he released. To this day I have no idea how he could keep that thing

 

flying for so long. He flew it all the way till the last minute & landed, ready for tie down and it was the long way round!.

 

Too many laws these days so reminisce as much as you want ;)

 

H