Temora Flying Weekend 17/18 Nov 2007

[Guest Chainsaw]

Part 1

 

Well here I am at Harden. What am I doing here?

 

We go to Temora tomorrow, but tonight its a rat/flea/fly/drunks etc infested hotel. You cant go near the bathrooms they stink so bad. No locks on the door, permanent stench. Our room had a double and 2 single beds. Not touched since the last visitors, wet towels. Very bad stench.

 

As I said what am I doing here??? At least I am my laptop monitoring aircraft around Australia using PlanePlotter. Karen think I'm pathetic. Not true, just a normal true blue obsessed plane freak.

 

Till next time...

 

Chainy

 

 

[Robbo]

Jeez Chainy

 

Couldent you find a better hotel ? I wont ask what the girls are like there then :shock:

 

P.S I was supposed to be going to this event, I was talking to a mate the other night and for some reoson I thought it was still October and then I was telling him going to Temora in November and he goes "mate its November now"

 

oops.........

 

 

[Guest Chainsaw]

Oh God!

 

We have not slept at all. The band played till after midnight and was soooo loud. The floor jumped at every note. It was hot, very. People kept going to the shared toilet after their severe drinking exploits...enough said about that. Until.....

 

The crippled rooster with a BAD crow started about 3am. Not even a regular pattern.

 

This airshow had better be worth it.

 

Chainy is NOT happy Jan!

 

 

[Guest OzChris]

come on Chainy - wheres your sense of adventure? :lol:

 

*Chris ducks as Chainy goes to wacks him across the back of the head*

 

Seriously though - I bet it will be a fantastic and memorable trip that you will laugh about when you think about it...and YES the airshow will be well worth it!! 8)

 

 

[Robbo]

Hey Chainy,

 

was firecom with you?

 

Should have made your own floor bounce and loud noises..

 

 

[Guest Glenn]

Geez Chainy what were you doing at a crap hotel? There are motels there you know that would've been better.

 

Enjoy the show :)

 

 

[Guest Chainsaw]

Karen & I are now at Coota. Very nice motel too. The aircon feels nice :)

 

The show was fab, in fact stunning. I will write a full trip report later. There was a Dutchman called Frank piloting Tom Mooney's Extra 300. I think my bother had it right when he said "that display was impossible"

 

It was indeed impossible, but it happened....amazing.

 

 

[Robbo]

Hey Chainy..

 

You staying at Southern Comfort Motor Inn???

 

Tell the owner (cannot remember his name) Robbo said to say hello, If he doesent remember who I am tell him we stayed there when we were doing aerial powerline survey.. Tell him im the young one :lol:

 

Think thats the motel name, its like a 5 minute walk to the airport. Be careful if you go to the airport we landed and i went to do a pee and there were special operations coppers having hostage practice and shooting rubber bullets.

 

I opened the dunny door to be confronted by this copper in bullet proof suit. i tell you i needed to do more than a pee after that. There we like 20 cops there, They used the old terminal building near the fuel bowser.

 

 

[Guest Chainsaw]

No actually, we are at a different one mate, no Feds, just good aircon and a great lady ;)

 

 

[Robbo]

There was a Dutchman called Frank piloting Tom Mooney's Extra 300.

Sounds like Frank, He swears a lot and flew Toms aircraft last year.

 

http://www.air-races.com/pilots/Frank%20Versteegh.htm

 

 

[Guest Glenn]

Frank had an Edge 540 this year.

 

Tom's Extra was here at Cowra in the hangar with the ag aircraft thursday and friday I think.

 

When are heading off to the big smoke chainy?

 

 

[Guest Chainsaw]

Glenn,

 

Frank was flying Tom's plane. They were both commentating and I spoke to Tom after the show.

 

Back to 'a sniff of kero from YSSY' sometime today.

 

I'll put some photos up and a show report when I can.

 

P.S. Slept like a log!