Flight 19's Wild Kingdom
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Hey everybody,
We left FEFF, M'poko for FZFP Kotakoli, and everything looked good for a nice and quite flight. But, old Mother Nature decided to give us a run for our money, and she started with some clouds and ended up with a super thunder storm, but that's not all she added a little fog for our descent. We all made it down without to much trouble. One thing at least, the runway being dirt was not a mud hole because of the thunder storms. Sure had my thoughts that this might be a very interesting landing with a muddy runway, but proven wrong again. lol.
We left FEFF, M'poko for FZFP Kotakoli, and everything looked good for a nice and quite flight. But, old Mother Nature decided to give us a run for our money, and she started with some clouds and ended up with a super thunder storm, but that's not all she added a little fog for our descent. We all made it down without to much trouble. One thing at least, the runway being dirt was not a mud hole because of the thunder storms. Sure had my thoughts that this might be a very interesting landing with a muddy runway, but proven wrong again. lol.
Hello, only thing I can say is the sun is setting behind us, so, maybe we are heading east. 4AM, gee, me body isn't awake then. Hehe, but, we will make it lots of coffee!
Hello all,Heck, this getting up before the crack of dawn isn't my cup of tea! Dark as heck, Dudley and I painfully thru our pre-flight check, and just in case we did it again knowing, doggone good and well we missed something. But, we got thru it without to much trouble and all looked fine, we will run over the preflight check before take off. Only good thing about getting up this early was that the flight office had plenty of hot coffee and some donuts, and we made a pig out of ourselves with those donuts. It was a nice flight and we didn't have any problems staying awake because of all that coffee you surely know that we were running back and forth to the little boys room. hehe, at this point we were sure glad that this plane had one. LOL
Hello all,
Well, after a short or long delay, which ever you want to call it, waiting for some engine parts for the C-54 we finally got off into the wild blue yonder! All in all a nice flight even with the thunder storms doing there thing. Now we are headed for the Mount Kilimanjaro should be interesting the bloody mountain is over 19,000 ft.
Well, after a short or long delay, which ever you want to call it, waiting for some engine parts for the C-54 we finally got off into the wild blue yonder! All in all a nice flight even with the thunder storms doing there thing. Now we are headed for the Mount Kilimanjaro should be interesting the bloody mountain is over 19,000 ft.
Howdy all,Like Moses mentioned we made it to the airport near Kilimanjaro mountain. Hehe while Willy and Moses flew around the mountain (Kilimanjaro) I sneaked in to get a good parking place, not really, just screwed up and tried to go around but I was way passed the turning point unless I wanted to climb way about 12,000 then I would have had a heck of a time clearing any granite out cropping's.
Howdy all,
Just three picture of our flight on Monday night. Sure were a lot of those hills around Kilimanjaro just did a little hand flying scooted right around those bugger. Last night we made it to HUMA. Forgot to take any picture on this flight. The next flight will be from HUMA to FZNA, and I hope I won't forget to take pictures.
Just three picture of our flight on Monday night. Sure were a lot of those hills around Kilimanjaro just did a little hand flying scooted right around those bugger. Last night we made it to HUMA. Forgot to take any picture on this flight. The next flight will be from HUMA to FZNA, and I hope I won't forget to take pictures.
Willy
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A few pics from near the end of last night's flight when it was getting dark.
The Office: I've done a few small changes to the vc of the Alabeo Gee Bee (can't leave nothing alone)
Also, I've decided to go green....
The Office: I've done a few small changes to the vc of the Alabeo Gee Bee (can't leave nothing alone)
Also, I've decided to go green....
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Hi there!
Well, I finally got the needed parts for the C-54, and installed very quickly after a two day delay. Caught up with Flight 19 at FZRF and made the flight to FLBA. Had problems locating the bloody airport, but finally found it down in a hole made a forbidden dive into the hole and made the runway OK, just plain dumb luck that we made it, should have gone around. Hehe, who said Flight 19 must follow the rules!
Well, I finally got the needed parts for the C-54, and installed very quickly after a two day delay. Caught up with Flight 19 at FZRF and made the flight to FLBA. Had problems locating the bloody airport, but finally found it down in a hole made a forbidden dive into the hole and made the runway OK, just plain dumb luck that we made it, should have gone around. Hehe, who said Flight 19 must follow the rules!
Hi everybody,
We had a very nice flight tonight, and at least the runway wasn't down in a hole. Whew! Didn't realize that parts of Africa had some many large mountains. Landing at FWKA reminded me of landing in the Northern part of California Central Valley Mountains on the west and east sides of the valley, and farms and green pastures, looks like very nice country.
We had a very nice flight tonight, and at least the runway wasn't down in a hole. Whew! Didn't realize that parts of Africa had some many large mountains. Landing at FWKA reminded me of landing in the Northern part of California Central Valley Mountains on the west and east sides of the valley, and farms and green pastures, looks like very nice country.
Hey There,
Just a couple of snaps from last nights flight. Things have been slow here and about due to some R/L thunder storms in the Midwest, and we are all hopeful that the T-Storm will slow down and we all can get back to our flying. I just think that our old buddy Achmed is involved in some of our small problems, but who knows. All I know is that he will try anything to get his revenge from some of our past involvement with that rascal. Hehe, for some reason Flight 19 seem to come out of these involvements on top! Talk to you all later.
Just a couple of snaps from last nights flight. Things have been slow here and about due to some R/L thunder storms in the Midwest, and we are all hopeful that the T-Storm will slow down and we all can get back to our flying. I just think that our old buddy Achmed is involved in some of our small problems, but who knows. All I know is that he will try anything to get his revenge from some of our past involvement with that rascal. Hehe, for some reason Flight 19 seem to come out of these involvements on top! Talk to you all later.
