Chilliwack Fly-In Saturday May 29, 2010 |
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12 viewsKern, from Maple Ridge, puts on the first flight on this soggy Saturday morning with his Green Model Tiger Moth.
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11 viewsKern and his flight crew braving the weather as the rain poured down - there wasn't anything that was going to stop him from flying.
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12 viewsGlen takes cover in his make-shift workshop where he spent most of the rainy days working on his new Nieuport.
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10 viewsWe're not sure whether Frank's ready to go flying airplanes or clam digging. He did come prepared for anything.
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9 viewsKern wiping down his Toledo Special in hopes for another flight.
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10 viewsSam checks out the slide factor and tries to determine if flying the Cessna from the grass is a good or bad idea.
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12 viewsCome hell or high water, I came here to fly and I'm going to fly - who needs to go to the float pond.
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12 viewsCome on plane.....go. Frank throttles up for his first ever flight off the field with floats.
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12 viewsWhoooo Hoooo....we're flying. Frank's Twin Otter makes a close pass for the photographer.
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12 viewsComing back around, Frank's Otter fit right in with the moodiness of the wet coastal weather.
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10 viewsFrank's Otter sliding to a stop after a successful flight from the field.
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14 viewsMike's beautiful "suitcase" CL-215 sitting on the table in pre-flight. This plane made it all of the way from the UK in a suitcase - as designed by Mike Roach himself.
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12 viewsMike holds up a first edition signed transmitter by the great Frank Jaerschky that he borrowed to fly his CL-215.
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15 viewsFrank holds Mike's portable hangar as he preps the CL-215 in pre-flight.
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15 viewsBeverly captures her first picture of the CL-215 in flight.
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15 viewsThe CL-215 climbs skyward.
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12 viewsLike a re-enactment from ice pilots, Mike land the CL-215 gear-up, only this time it wasn't the Turks flying it, it was Mike.
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11 viewsMike celebrates after his first successful flight on Saturday morning.
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16 viewsIvan launches his Solent into the pond for his first flight of the day.
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12 viewsIvan's Solent taxis out.
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14 viewsPreparing for take off.
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11 viewsAfter showing up late to the pond, Frank and Team Tracon finally start getting some flights in, with Frank making his first flight from the pond with the Twin Otter
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12 viewsThe Otter just after take off with water droplets falling from the floate and fuse.
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11 viewsThe Otter on final approach just before landing.
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10 viewsColin B's GWS Beaver takes flight after it's first successful take off from the pond.
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11 viewsOne of Ivan's Sealands on final approach. Not sure who the pilot was.
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10 viewsColin's Beaver just before touch down after a successful flight.
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10 viewsSam's Cessna 172 throttles up on take off - his first flight at the pond.
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10 viewsThe Sealand making it's way back to the beach after it's successful flight.
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12 viewsMike and Ivan hanging out at the float pond.
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14 viewsMike launches his CL-215 for it's second flight of the day - from the pond this time. Check out the argyle socks - all the way from the UK.
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16 viewsSam's Tofino Air Cessna 172 flies over head.
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