Mare Nostrum - aka The Italian Job aka Asian Adventure
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Howey Folks, have one on Flight 19,A very nice flight from LKKV-LOWL-LOWS, Plus flying over some bad guy's homestead up in those mountains. While at LOWL one of the pilots, who will remain unknown hehe. Did some horse trading will an local airport and ended up with a JU-88 a real speed burner. Heck, I had the pedal to the medal and couldn't hardly keep up with the flight. To prove a point, one of the attached picture shows me taxing in while the rest of the flight is parked and headed for the local pub. I know I am going to get stuck with the check. hehe.
Hey here we are again, hot to trot! hehe.Well, we left Salzburg (LOWS) and headed to the final destination Riedrichshafen (EDNY). As usual the flight was just great, the weather held, and no German jumping bean trees gave us any problems. Changed aircraft in the middle of the flight went from the GC he-111 to the Virtavia he-111 flew well enough but on landing had a big Oops! The bloody thing went over on it's nose, and I hardly touch the brakes, seems this is a problem with the Virtavia mode. So who knows what we will be flying Monday! hehe the shadow knows!
Taco and Mr. D.P. Fudpucker
Hi All!Here we are again, a good flight from EDDS to EDDN to EDDF (Stuttgart to Nuremburg to Frankfurt) Just checking out the sites and enjoying the scenery. hehe. As usual i had a big Oops with the He-111, I stalled it in a first class fashion and cleared out a bunch of trees in the fellows field, and of course he thanked me by pointing a big pitch fork at me. But any after getting up into the air again I caught up with the flight and landed at Frankfurt, and a big suspries the He-111 and I didn't try to plow the runway for a change. Looking across the runway( picture where the He-111 is park by it self) is I think is a French Air Force base, the planes looks like the C-119.
Until next time.
Guess what, "i'm back."Just to keep you up to date, we took yesterday off for a little R&R and getting the planes ready for the Rhine Gorge run. Got fixed up a little early so I buzzed around the airport and did a little sight seeing. With a little bit of luck we should be flying today.
Hi There!!
Looks like we did fly yesterday. Down the Rhine and thru the Gorge (shucks, almost sounds like a song we used to sing in grammer school,hehe). Nice flight, me and the He-51 was lagging behind MM and Moses whose birds were just a little faster than the He-51, but we made to EDDK without hitting any of those high walls or anything else.
Taco
Looks like we did fly yesterday. Down the Rhine and thru the Gorge (shucks, almost sounds like a song we used to sing in grammer school,hehe). Nice flight, me and the He-51 was lagging behind MM and Moses whose birds were just a little faster than the He-51, but we made to EDDK without hitting any of those high walls or anything else.
Taco
Hi there, hehe, and you thought I was done.
MM
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A few more photos. First, truning north into the Rhine Gorge near Bingen. Getting down low. Slipping past the siren song of Lorelie. And the towns long the Rhine near Koblenz. Lots of twisty flying so not good photography.
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Last nights flight was something else believe me! First we were flying Stukas and planning a bombing run on the Murfee Heights. We were at 10,000ft when we started the down ward plunge! About half way down I was sure glad that I skip breakfast this AM. Still it felt like my blood didn't know what way to go up or down, well enough of that, the bomb release was around 1500 or so and then the pull out during the pull out I thought me body and seat was going right thru the bottom of the stuka. But alas, we made the climb back to altitude and flew on to Paris Le Bourget (LFPB).
Last nights flight was something else believe me! First we were flying Stukas and planning a bombing run on the Murfee Heights. We were at 10,000ft when we started the down ward plunge! About half way down I was sure glad that I skip breakfast this AM. Still it felt like my blood didn't know what way to go up or down, well enough of that, the bomb release was around 1500 or so and then the pull out during the pull out I thought me body and seat was going right thru the bottom of the stuka. But alas, we made the climb back to altitude and flew on to Paris Le Bourget (LFPB).
Hey here we are again.We Le Bourget and did a little sight seeing around the City of Lights. for us country boys that's Paris, France. hehe. Now lets see what we flew over during our sight seeing. Arc de Triomphe, The Louvre. Notre Dame. Les Invalides, this is where they buried that small fellow named Napoleon. A few other sites including the Eiffel Tower, and we even had some thoughts about trying to fly under the Tower, but as we got closer it didn't seem like a good idea. Well anyway we flew on to Vichy France where we did a little R&R.
Next we will be on our way to Dordeaux and the Bay of Biscayne. So until the next time. CYA.
Hey more pictures making up for the ones I missed a few days ago. Real nice flight, checking out sub pens and buzzing an airport at low level. One picture you can see me chasing MM He-111 diving down toward the sub pen. We left LFBD and flew to LFRZ and will contintue onto LFRH to LFRJ on the next flight.
Hey, here we are.This flight was from LFRZ-Lfrh-LFRJ- and landed at LFRD. Check out the Sub Pens along the route and buzzed a few of the local plus the airport. Boy, we sure get some funny communations from those airport towers. Those bloody folks talked so fast I coundn't under stand a word they were saying, but when I landed at LFRD there were some local POOOlice waiting to give a little gift. hehe. No problem, I will just forward it to Mr. Goring the top dog of this flying circus.
This here dumbie almost didn't make it, must have been day dreaming and stalled the He-111 two times. Boy, did old Dudley give a very bad time, and he didn't talk to me for the rest of the flight.......come to think about he still hasn't talked to me. The man can't take a joke! hehe. Any excuse will do!
