Chilliwack Fly-In Best of the Best May 2007 |
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13 viewsBarney and Cubby making a close pass down the flight line.
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13 viewsLeif's GWS Tigermoth 400 just lifting off into strong head winds.
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24 viewsIvan's first flight of the day, making a beautiful pass down the flight line.
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18 viewsIvan getting is Short Solent (100" wing span) ready in preflight.
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15 viewsHere's Barney taking one last look up the beach before he climbs into Cubby. He can't believe Sam's going to make him fly in this weather.
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18 viewsSam getting Barney the Bush Pilot ready for his first flight.
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25 viewsRick, Brad, Ivan, Geoff, Al and Sarah trying to figure out where Luke went??? From all of the stress prepping for his maiden flight, he was probably in the bushes taking care of business. LOL
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17 viewsAnother Tigermoth 400, not sure of the owner.
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16 viewsTwin Otter making a nice flyby. I do recall seeing running lights and stobes on the wingtips.
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12 viewsColinB taxiing out, braving the blustery winds.
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21 viewsRick Bell, from nearby Abbotsford, readying his Short Solent, another past plane from Ivan's fleet. It's still a beautiful flyer.
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13 viewsLeif's Tigermoth throttling up for take off.
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15 viewsLeif placing is GWS Tigermoth 400 in the water in pre-flight.
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16 viewsHere's a blast from the past. One of Team Tracon's kids we gave up for adoption last year. ColinB from Victoria is the new proud parent.
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19 viewsHal Norrish's shark partol sitting on the beach. It did a great job as we never did see any sharks.
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19 viewsIvan's Short Sealant throttling up for take off.
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23 viewsCouldn't remember these fellows names. Here they are prepping their Twin Otter for it's first flight.
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23 viewsHere's an eerie image captured by Sam of Dan's Sealand going in...
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21 viewsPoor Dan was plagued with major glitches on takeoff. After a few seconds of fighting to keep it in the air, it went in behind the grassy knoll. Amazingly enough, it came out practically unscathed.
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22 viewsDan Idorn built this Short Sealand from Ivan Pettigrew plans.
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26 viewsSaturday morning at the pond...Ivan prepping his Short Sealand.
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17 viewsAlan's Ultra 25 Stick - another excellent performer.
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19 viewsAlan K., from the Hoods Up Flyers in Burnaby, flying his first quarter scale project - a GWS Slowstik.
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26 viewsLOOK CLOSELY...not only does he have moths, but check out the mosquito on his wrist. Luke hand launching his Moth.
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30 viewsLuke builds even smaller planes...ready for take off with his miniature scale Gypsy Moth.
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19 viewsAnother pic of Luke's Aircamper.
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16 viewsDidn't get the name of the pilot, but it was a nice Groove 480.
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22 viewsLuke also builds small planes...here he is prepping his Pietenpol Aircamper for its first flight.
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20 viewsGlen, from Lake Louise, Alberta, after the re-maiden flight.
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18 viewsHere she is on final. Sorry about Sam's motor mouth when you were trying to fly.
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18 viewsAfter spending several hours in the Peden M*A*S*H unit, and a couple of stripped servos later, she was as good as new.
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16 viewsGlen Peden's Hangar 9 Spitfire. This plane used up one of its 9 lives on Thursday when it hit one of the tallest trees located at the west end of the runway. We think that Glen was trying to reenact the flat spin in the Top Gun movie.
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