Vintage plane ride

[sixtiesrelic]

We went for a fly in a Dragon today... Great old aeroplane that oozed along at about eighty knots.

 

We flew out of Caboolture and landed for a cuppa at a private strip at Cooinya, where there were a number of aircraft hangared.

 

C180, PA22 (Colt),Pitts Special and a swag of "ultralights".

 

One looked like a stretched bubble that gets along at 130 knots and has more glass in the dash than most 737s.

 

Photos tomorrow. I only took a few photos as I was doing my Cecil B. De Mille with the video camera.

 

There were five of us and the owner pilot.

 

Three of us were "old blokes"who couldn't wipe the smile off our faces.

 

Curley,because it was the first plane he went in a s a kid and it hooked him into aviation at the age of four. He still flies regularly in hes late sixties.

 

Me,because it was the first plane I got to pole around the sky.

 

Sat on my old mans lap when I was eight and learned the fun of low flying, as we chased a dingo across a plain waaaaay out west towards Birdsville. Of course I've never low flown ... it's illegal! ...except in Flt Sim.

 

My cousin, because he loves old aeroplanes and is getting in the mood for them now he's in his last week flying 737's and doesn't have to ever get in a bloody simulator again.

 

My son and his girlfriend were pretty wrapt too.

 

We're all going again sometime.

 

 

[Guest Glenn]

Where are the photo's :?:

 

 

[sixtiesrelic]

The aeroplane

 

 

no dual done here.

 

 

Three blokes we need to be nice to when it comes to going flying.

 

 

I mostly took videos. I'll see what my cousin took when he gets back from his four day flight he's on at the moment.

 

 

[Guest Glenn]

That is a great looking machine, especially in real life

 

 

[Guest WillMikoyan]

that would have been so cool, i wish i could go up in one of them1