Day 13: 1997-06-01
ATW Retro-blog: 1997-06-01 (Day#13)
Chelyabinsk (RU) – Omsk (UNOO – RU)
412nm; 3h40; Hughes (833) / Purchase (962)
Yuri proved his worth – the hotel didn’t serve any food until noon, but he arranged breakfast in the airport VIP lounge, with “lashings of ham and eggs”.
Once airborne, the flight enjoyed tremendously clear visibility and a tail wind which at times gave the Chipmunks a GS of 142kts. That same wind though became less favourable on arrival at Omsk, where it presented a 35 kt cross-wind. Having arrived in the Islander some 30 minutes ahead of the Chipmunks, Yuri and Tony Cowan were able to scout-out a transverse patch of 2ft-high grass at one end of the runway. It wasn’t a very long roll-out for the Chipmunks!
Without transport to the town, 1 hour away, the team checked-in to the local hotel: no showers, questionable quality of water, a single loo described as ‘unsavoury’. Again Yuri came up trumps on the catering front, organizing an exotic meal in the Omsk airport VIP lounge.
Omsk tie-downs.
The single-loo ‘hotel’ by the airport [don’t think this place got a Michelin anything].
[Incidentally, this narrative started on 05-20 by stealing the opening line of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:
Well, “It was **FIFTY** years ago **TODAY** ” … that that album was released. That seems incredible.]
Day 13: USCC-UNOO 412 nm, 3.67 hrs, GS 112 kts. Cumulative 3060 nm, 31.51 hrs, Average GS 97 kts.
Last edited by India Four Two; 20th Jun 2017 at 06:54.