Flight 19 European Vacation

Yep, we headed on down to the Rock. Nice weather for once at the destination, but the traffic sure turned heavy on final as it looked like everyone got to the runway at the same time. Luckily no aluminum was bent.

On to Africa!
 
:salute:Hey there!

Right no bent aluminum, but the whole bloody place looked like a hornets nest but with Connies. Pictures, we saw this here fellow taking picture of the connie from the parking lot so we got a few to show the group. Now off to Africa! To what fate who in the heck knows, but knowing this group it's going to be interesting!
 
We cross the Mediterranean to Oran, Algeria. Decent start to the Africa portion of our journey.

Pics are scrambled up again.
 
Headed on to Algiers. Nice flight although I got a late start and had to fly it pretty hard to catch up to the guys. There was some talk of trying to find a bikini beach, but we decided that it would be more of a "burqa beach" in this part of world.
 
Just a few photos of last night flight. They really got us going about the Bikini thing, but shucks it always happens when we a overflying any beaches! But I must admit that Bikinis are sure nicer to look at than burga!
 
Furthering the cause across the top of Africa to Tripoli. Word is the Rolling Stones are arriving any minute to put on a concert at the Air Base.
 
We flew on to Tripoli today landing at the Air base (HLLM). I was reading the Tripoli Daily Gazette and saw that Hakeem's Used Camels and Aircraft was running a special on Connies. BOAC has been pretty short on the paychecks, so I went over there at the main airport and traded the Speedbird for a L749 freighter formerly used by some band on a world tour. Figured I'd go into bidness for myself hauling cargo. Worst case I'd get a Flight 19th Nervous Breakdown...

Pics are backwards again....
 
Taco and I left Tripoli for Benghazi. Somehow we ended up going by way of Sitra. Just before we got there heading for the deep desert, I was starting to have thoughts of Lady Be Good. Then we found Sitra, made the left turn to Benghazi and all was good again.

Now to see if I can sell those crates of pickled pigs feet here.
 
Boy, sure hope Willy sells all those crates of pickled pigs feet. Somehow I feel he will make a pretty fair profit, so, the drinks will be on him! Sure thought we would have run into our buddy Achmed, but so far he has been laying low. Knowing this bugger I think he is figuring out a nice susprise for us. I think, nice for him, bad for us!

Flying over the local desert did bring back some thoughts of the Lady be Good. Remember well when they found her. A few photos of the flight, of course they are mixed up.

Taco, and his trusty co-pilot Dudley.
:wavey:
 
We left Benghazi behind and headed east to Alexandria Egypt. Kind of a longish flight for us in decent weather except for the net storm that bounced me offline for a bit. About the time that I was about to give up trying to get back on, I managed to get on.
 
Howdy all from Alexandria, Egypt.It was a longer flight than we normally do, but it was a nice one, with the exception of our approarch the doggone fig started to settle in. Thankfully, it didn't get real thick and our final we had good visibility into the landing. A couple of things, just before we left Benghazi we heard rumors that our buddy Achmed was trying to stop our departure and impound our plane and carge, but again we got the jump on him and very sneaky got out of Dodge. My trustie co-pilot Dudley still trying to get a popshot at the painting on the side of Willy ship, You know the tongue sticking out of those big lips, for some reason that sure bug him. hehe. I assume Willy sold his cargo of pickled pigs feet. One of these days going to have to ask him how he sold them Muslin country!Again went crazy with the photos, and again not in order.
 
When we took off for Beruit, I had a slight oops on take off at Alexandria. Pulled up to hard on take, raised the wheels, then belly whomped it back down onto the runway. Good thing they had some fast mechanics there.

Other than that, it was a pretty good flight watching Moses try to keep up in that B-29. :icon_lol:
 
Hey, that's me behind Willy's fireworks didn't get any pictures of the fireworks to darn busy trying to miss the fire ball, but we made it with a little over powering of the engines. Here a few snaps of the flight, didn't take many this flight busy flying and watching for those unknown Zero fighters. Didn't see any, just maybe olde Achmed wouldn't pay them enough to tangle with Moses's B-29!
 
Tour of the Holy Land Pt I

Lots of pics tonight. We left Beruit and headed south through Israel to Cairo.

1) The preflight lineup at Beruit Intl.
2) The Sea of Galilee with the Golan Heights (they're more impressive in real life)
3) The Jordan River flowing south out of the Sea of Galilee
4) The old city in Jerusalem
5) Lod airport in Tel Aviv
6) Gaza

More pics to follow.
 
Tour of the Holy Land Pt II

And more pics

7) Suez Canal
8) Cairo approach
9) Cairo Intl
10) Cairo Intl

A very good flight with a full crew....
 
Howdy all,

Just a few photos of last nights flight. Egypt, the land of the Pharoahs, the Nile, and those bad snakes that bit that Queen who ran around with that cat named Mark!
 
A few more snaps.

-Pre flight Line up in Beirut

-Willy pulling 9Gs on takeoff

-Dead Sea

-Touchdown in Cairo
 
Wonderful to have Flight 19 crew in action. A few more snaps. (Flying directly from Lebanon to Israel, or from Israel to Egypt, seems to attract attention...and close inspection of cargo. So we opted for a flying tour.)
 
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