Best Flying Experiences?
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Best Flying Experiences?
Hi everyone. If you would like, post some info or talk about your best/ most wonderful flying experiences. Just to remember the beauty of flight and how lucky we are to be part of it.
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Once few some friends from London to Sandtoft in PA28 Archer II. Flew a Jet Provost (Eddie Todd's) then returned to Biggin at dusk flying over the thames estuary. Quite a day, have a look at the official video on YouTube if you have a minute or two....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaIBH56ORSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaIBH56ORSE
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I spent time in Russia in 1993 flying with Genna Elfimov. 30 hours aero's on Yak 52 in 4 weeks.
Just south of Smolensk took 7 hours by train from Moscow to get there. Picked up by Mil2 Helicopter and flew to training field. Living in old Baracks. Flying every day and siting around a camp fire at night looking at a totaly unpolluted sky , clear as a bell. Tracking US satelites and listening to Walter Kronkite on the radio.
Heaven.
Just south of Smolensk took 7 hours by train from Moscow to get there. Picked up by Mil2 Helicopter and flew to training field. Living in old Baracks. Flying every day and siting around a camp fire at night looking at a totaly unpolluted sky , clear as a bell. Tracking US satelites and listening to Walter Kronkite on the radio.
Heaven.
A little less conversation,
a little more aviation...
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Originally Posted by Ken Wells
Heaven.
"We are pilots.....they are peasants.
Excellent scope for some t-shirts printed with that one, I think.
Last edited by eharding; 9th Mar 2008 at 21:32.
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Very true.
The quote came from asking Genna if there were ever noise complanits from the village we used as a cross roads reference.
His reply;
"In Russia no noise complaints, you have to understand,
We are PILOTS they are PEASANTS"
UK NIMBYS note!
The quote came from asking Genna if there were ever noise complanits from the village we used as a cross roads reference.
His reply;
"In Russia no noise complaints, you have to understand,
We are PILOTS they are PEASANTS"
UK NIMBYS note!
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Hi! just read the above post about a quote made by Genna..is it possible at all that the word "peasants" was a bad translation of the french word "payasants"meaning "farmers" or "country folk"? I have heard "peasant" being used wrongly like that, in english, more than once here in the flemish part of belgium ....
sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread though...
sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread though...
Without doubt, flying a P-51 Mustang in Florida last year! Expensive (damned expensive!), but worth every single penny. 14 months on, and I'm still grinning. If you ever get the chance, do it; the guys at Stallion 51 are fantastic!
