For Moggy.

Sorry if this post was too personal, folks.

Regards,

kev35 [/B][/QUOTE]

Kev , in the short term you have had your camera you have let a lot of people see aircraft they may never see in the flesh , and I for one have benefited a great deal – with photo’s of a tractor I would never have seen at all , long may you have the health to operate your camera , many thanks.

Well ours had all its gills as I recall, but then the poor thing never got to be very old 🙁

What a wimp the Popham guy is! See the step attached to the inboard trailing edge of the port wing for getting aboard?

Real Yak owners perfect a ‘bum onto the walkway backwards’ hop to mount their steed.

(Some owners fall off their aircraft too when on a wet day they inadvertently put their heel down on the wing instead of the walk-strip. It’s a long way to fall 🙁 )

Moggy

Nice piccies mate.

Interesting to see the same ‘teeth’ missing from the…cooling gills ?….behind the prop. Can any one confirm why this is so ?.

The attached I took at Popham Aerojumble cos it looked funny with a few gaps in the shutters.

more great pics Kev – if this is lack of talent for a beginner i’m looking forward to seeing the rest!

Originally posted by kev35
Moggy.

Sorry if this post was too personal, folks.

Regards,

kev35

Reckon we are amongst friends here Kev.

Moggy

Moggy.

As you know my health brings me down with a bump now and again. Having this new camera is a real boon. It’s sparked my interest again and is helping to drag me back out of a slide. It’s something I can do that my disability doesn’t hinder me, except, of course, from the aspect of a lack of talent. If that’s what it takes to motivate me I’ll give it a whirl.

The Yak sounded great and was very spritely on take-off, climbing very steeply. Seemed to take an age for the undercarriage to go up. The guy in the back gave me a wave as he taxied out. The aircraft is registered to Skytrace Ltd. It still has the feel of a WWII airfield with a plethora of buildings, a number of which are overgrown. A lad I went to school with is an instructor with one of the schools there.

Sorry if this post was too personal, folks.

Regards,

kev35

Hey Kev,

You really are putting your digicam to good effect! How did you ever manage without it?

Pity you can’t post the sound as well. From onboard the deep, lazy rumble of the radial is counterpointed by a series of hisses from the pnuematics that operate the differential braking, overlayed with a series of creaks and groans that I never actually liked to think too deeply about. 😉

I don’t know for sure, but I’d hazard a guess that that Yak belongs to Skytrace, a school at Halfpenny Green (Forget this Wolverhampton International Executive Starport rubbish – It will always be Bobbington / Halfpenny Green to me) that employs a Russian called Gennady Elfimov to teach Yak owners what they can really do with their ships.

Green with envy for the guy in the front, though he will probably shortly be green himself.

Thanks,

Mogs

Just noticed. In the first pic he must have got about 150 yards from the fuel bowser. Very shortly it will be time for him to turn around and go back for a refuel!

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