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Old 26th Jan 2013, 10:01
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Weeds round the prop
 
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It's LY-BIG, 'Baltic Bear'. I have no idea who the owner is/was. I took a few pics at Tatenhill in June 2006, but had seen it somewhere else around the same time, maybe Kemble and/or Hucknall.
I have a soft spot for these craft having managed a fair number of passenger flights in eastern Europe over the last 25 years whilst working there. I would take a 20 min sightseeing flight every Sunday in Poland, standing on the step into the cockpit. We often flew down a small river level with the levees on either side- I'm sure we took out a few fishing lines! Aproaching a couple of small bridges the pilot would lean forward and look left and right out of the big greenhouse windows before easing up and over the bridge. He turned to me the first time and said "Camion..." He was looking for high-sided lorries! Bliss.
I also spent many happy hours in 1989 hiding in undergrowth by a paddy field outside Chengdu, China watching the AN2s hauling paratroop training flights.
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