Humorous caption – help please!

Protection 🙂

See it works like this mate, you give me a fiver an hour or you come back and find the plane on bricks understand???

Bex :diablo:

Before flight!

You rotate the propellor anti clockwise to wind up the elastic band!

Hi Papa Lima

I wasnt in the Dakota but I enjoyed a pleasant stay in the Netherlands this weekend flying AN 2 and Catalina at Lelystad.:D

The norwegian Dakota LN-WND is a pretty sight indeed an I having some 30 hours PAX time in it:)

Volvo

Hi Papa Lima,
The reason I ask is that my Dad worked for Volvo in 1978 to ’80 and I spent many Friday afternoons at the Volvo social club. I’m sure it was called Sorredsgarden. I even toured the factory on an open day and was given a toy car, which I still have!
Regards,
John

Hi Carpetbagger
Sörredsgården is popularly known as “Volvo City” being right next to the Volvo factory at Torslanda, Gothenburg (for those who don’t know).
No, the only things I did there were to use the bank and the dentist.
By the way (more thread creep) I will soon put up pix on Photobucket of the Volvo Museum aircraft, a Draken and a Viggen, both cut away.

LimaNovember, sorry you couldn’t make it, I assume you were in your Dakota, which did come to Säve a week later, but I forgot and I missed it, digging my girlfriend’s garden instead! Grrrrr!

Many thanks for those excellent suggestions – I like the parking warning best!

For those of you familiar with Photobucket, I have now joined it with the username “skribenten” and put up some of the photos I took that day in an album called “Aeroseum Day May 6 2007”.
Foe those who haven’t visited Photobucket the procedure is to Google to that name, then in the Photobucket search field to the top right, enter “skribenten”and in the window that appears, click on the appropriate heading to see the skribenten albums.
So far I have only the one album, but will add more as time permits – the pictures take ages to upload, but on the other hand they are fairly high resolution.
Thanks again, and I hope to post more items soon, such as the recent trip Colin and I made to Gardermoen and Bodö to see the excellent Norwegian Aircraft Collections (that means “Museums” to us non-Scandinavians!).

By the way, can anyone tell me the type of aircraft that is registered SE-LBY (shown in the album)? I think it is some kind of Robin.

By the way.We couldnt make it to the Aero sum open day. The weather was terrible and we had to return to Kjeller only 7nm from the airport:mad:

Apologies for thread creep..

Papa Lima,

Ever played the crazy golf at Sorredsgarden (sp?)? (Or the 10pin bowling, or been swimming, or eaten in the cafeteria)

Explanation to follow…

John

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I’m telling you the tail is SUPPOSED to be near the ground. My bad landing had NOTHING to do with it!

“Personally I can’t see the ‘Yellow Arrows’ enjoying the same success as the Red ones!”

“Yeah but I wanted my name, Jack, in it somehow – I am team leader”

Roger Smith.

“Personally I can’t see the ‘Yellow Arrows’ enjoying the same success as the Red ones!”

Many thanks, contrailjj – after 30 years of practice my Swedish happens to be good enough to hold down a full-time translation job! Now why didn’t I think of the Luftfartsstyrelsen register? After all, among many other things I translate Swedish aircraft accident reports into English!

Flew a Robin 2160 last month, motors verrrry nice with 160hp, and it’s Blue! 😀

A robin endeed…

http://www.luftfartsstyrelsen.se/templates/LS_Luftfartyg____35110.aspx?idnumber=2779&regnumber=SE-LBY

and a link to the registry search engine..

http://www.luftfartsstyrelsen.se/templates/LS_LuftFartyg_Sok____35109.aspx

Sorry about the lack of English, my Swedish is non-existent and I couldn’t find the English language version of the search engine.

JJ

“Hi-viz vests now mandated for all Rearwin/Cubs in Sweden”

It’s ‘ealthy and Safety gone mad I tell yer!

Many thanks for those excellent suggestions – I like the parking warning best!

For those of you familiar with Photobucket, I have now joined it with the username “skribenten” and put up some of the photos I took that day in an album called “Aeroseum Day May 6 2007”.
Foe those who haven’t visited Photobucket the procedure is to Google to that name, then in the Photobucket search field to the top right, enter “skribenten”and in the window that appears, click on the appropriate heading to see the skribenten albums.
So far I have only the one album, but will add more as time permits – the pictures take ages to upload, but on the other hand they are fairly high resolution.
Thanks again, and I hope to post more items soon, such as the recent trip Colin and I made to Gardermoen and Bodö to see the excellent Norwegian Aircraft Collections (that means “Museums” to us non-Scandinavians!).

By the way, can anyone tell me the type of aircraft that is registered SE-LBY (shown in the album)? I think it is some kind of Robin.

Purple rain purple rain.

“Well it was Blue when we took off!!”

‘Now don’t go buzzing that old aged peoples home again’

I forgot to credit my good friend Colin Burgess for the first photo and the one of us taxying out. Thanks, Colin!

Here we are taxying out.
I’m not sure what kind of air-to-ground pictures you would like, but here are a couple – one of the ramp that day (we had 17 Saab Safirs visiting), and the other marks the little house I used to live in, on the island of Asperö, in the southern archipelago. I moved into town (Eriksberg) after 18 months of it taking me 2 1/2 hours by boat and tram to reach my office in Volvo, which I could see from the island! Once when in a hurry I hired a fishing boat for the 20-minute trip across the water.
As some of you know, I used to post a LOT of photos, but nowadays with strict rationing in force, and the fact that I don’t use Photobucket or similar, I am afraid I can’t do that any more.
By the way, as I am now one of the official Aeroseum photographers, I will have to get myself a more fancy lens for my Canon EOS 350D, at present I have the two Sigma lenses it came with, max. 200mm.