| 7 October 2006
- Sackville farm |
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| Determined to go
to this VAC flyin we telephoned Friday evening and were informed it would
take place on Saturday as hoped. Sunday had been an option if bad
weather on Saturday |
| We arrived at the
airfield and prepared AY taking off at 9:30am initially for Popham to
obtain some fuel. |
| After a quick
coffee we started to taxi at 10:25am and immediately saw our friends
Lionel and John taxiing their Jodel to the hold. We waved and
signalled that they could put the kettle on for us at Sackville. |
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| We followed
shortly. |
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| After flying
North past Newbury, Greenham Common, Didcot to Buckingham and then changed
heading going North East to fly North of Milton Keynes, Olney and on to
Sackville Farm |
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| There was a stiff
wind almost down runway 31. We were pleased to see a few planes had
already landed including our friends John and Paul in the Tiger Moth. |
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| Parking the plane
we headed off to the club house for another coffee and natter. Tony
at Sackville Farm produced another magnificent Barbeque after which we
staggered over to walk the line and see all the other planes that had
arrived. |
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| One of the planes
was a Pazmany PL-4A G-PLIV. We were very interested to see this
plane as the husband of one of Jan's friends was building one in his
garage. This picture of G-PLIV was NOT taken at Sackville Farm |
| Unfortunately the
days were getting short and the wind was increasing so at 3:25 we took off
for home |
