South For The Winter - Flight 19

[Willy]

From last night's flight

 

[Willy]

Flew on up to someplace in Brazil. Nice flight although the wind gusts kept trying to flip us inverted.

 

[Taco]

Hey there folks,

Wow! a very nice and fun flight with Willy and his H-299, now that bugger poopies and gits. Did get a chance to try to remember how to do some formation flying, Not to bad for an old dog, at least I didn't run into him. Fell back and tried to attack using a barrel role and slipping in behind him but came to fast, hehe my old flight teacher more than likely would kick my behind for that boo-boo. lol. Cya later.

 

[Willy]

A couple of pics from tonight's flight. We switched to floaters for the trip down the Amazon. Although apparently some float better than others...

 

[Willy]

Well the floater thing wasn't working out too well for me, so once we got into Brazil good, I swapped into a ex-Navy Grumman C-1A Trader for the flight down the river. Speaking of which Flight 19 struck again tonight. Which is what happens when I end up on point. I must have turned at the wrong tree (they all look alike in the jungle) as we landed at the wrong airfield in Colombia (SKLT) instead of one in Brazil (SBTT). There I was heading down the river and spotted the runway lights and went on in. I didn't know there were two airports close to each other on the same bank of the river here. I knew there was something wrong when I spotted a Dan-Air London jet parked next to me.

Anyway, once we get it all explained to the local military why I landed a military aircraft in their country, they might even let us go.... might...

 

[Taco]

Hey there!

just a few snaps of our flight down the Anazon River, me think, so many river inland that is hard to tell which is which, but anyway, so far it has be fun.

 

[Milton Shupe]

Hey there!

just a few snaps of our flight down the Anazon River, me think, so many river inland that is hard to tell which is which, but anyway, so far it has be fun.

Just a caution guys; those Mallards should have mooring lights on when sitting there idle

 

[srgalahad]

Just a caution guys; those Mallards should have mooring lights on when sitting there idle

C'mon Milton... if they can't find the right country, let alone the right airport, and you expect them to figure out the requirements for lighting????

 

[Willy]

Requirements? What's that? Next thing yall will be talking about those mythical things called manuals.

Decided to go with some light GA

 

[Taco]

Hello,

Just one picture from our flight last night. The next flight will put us into SBBE (Belem). Just in time to make up a new flight plan for heading North.

 

[Willy]

Some recent shots from Brazil

 

[Willy]

Made it up to Trinidad/Tobago at TTCP.

Ought to be a Disney ride.... "Big Iron of the Caribbean"

 

[Willy]

We made it to the final destination for this trip at St Martin. A few days on the beach and we'll be ready to head out again.