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cooperman
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 Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 @ 04:13 PM
Dear all
Am planning to fly in and attend the last 2 days of this event 6/7 Sept with Dave Bland.
Apart from the race itself there are displays etc and a party on the Sat night.
I think the final race day is on the Saturday so that could leave Sunday open to a visit elsewhere once heads have cleared.
Hope there are a few more Fourniers or other interested parties out there to join us.
More info at http://www.gp2008.co.uk/index.cgi
Rgds
Paul.
[Edit by cooperman on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 @ 04:26 PM]
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 @ 06:36 AM
Hi Paul, Dave,
I hope to be at Lasham in our red Fournier.
I've asked them if they'd like me to display for them, but got no reply.
Meanwhile, I shall be displaying at Sywell (Northampton) next Sunday, 24th August. Better, Guy Westgate will be flying, and his act is really something to see. Have you ever seen a glider flying rolls while on aero-tow? That's just one of the many great things he does!
Maybe see a few of you there?
Yours, Bob
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 @ 05:56 AM
Hi Guys,
Lasham came back to me after all, and have asked me to fly my usual four-minute routine on the afternoon of Saturday 6th September, so I look forward to seeing you all there.
I'll have to leave that evening (6:30pm-ish) because I have another display at Seething the following day.
(That's north-east of Barking and east of Snoring -- don't you just love those names?)
Yours, Bob
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Jorgen
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Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 @ 10:26 AM
Hi Bob, Lads,
I would have loved to join you for those UK meets, but unfortunately I can´t make it. Actually we have an ongoing great meet here in the south of Sweden (ESME) today were we originally planned to do a "Blue Voltige"-type routine, you know the Italian team with a RF 5 and RF 4 in close formation. Alas I have to work today instead and feel sorry for the Guys who organized the meet. No Fournier formation and it´s not the same to see a Mustang, T-28 and Spitfire bogged down on a watersoaked grass strip in pouring rain
As always in poor weather you can turn to Youtube, there´s a video of Fabio Iannacone ed Ivan Prizzon "at work":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJO7Y8c0awg
Anyone have pictures of that great "Blue Voltige"-routine to post?
Take 5(b) just 4 fun/ Jörgen, SE-UDI, SE-XST
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Tuesday, September 2, 2008 @ 12:03 PM
Hi again Folks,
Those of you in Britain probably know that the weather has badly affecterd all air shows this summer.
I am trying to get some (any) photos or film clips of our red Fournier flying aerobatics with smoke.
If anybody out there has anything, whatever the quality, I would be very grateful if they would contact me.
Also if anybody is able to get any photos or video footage at Lasham or Seething I would love to have something to publicise our aerobatics for next year.
We only got six displays this year, and will have to work hard at promoting our flying if we are to acheive our target of twelve shows next year.
Here's hoping for good weather this weekend.
Yours, Bob
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 @ 02:39 AM
Well, unfortunately we didn't get good weather at Lasham.
It rained and drizzled till 4pm, with a 20-knot crosswind, but we did get to fly in the end.
Going home at the end of the day, for the last mile I had to fight my way under a 100-foot cloudbase in drizzle.
Never again (how often have I said that?)
As I approached, I noticed the fields all around my airstrip looked pretty wet.
Landed OK, taxied to the hangar, stopped ten feet away and promptly sank up to the mainwheel axle. We had to use the Land Rover to pull the poor, wet thing into the hangar. Coudn't get out again for a week!
I eventually flew five public displays and two private ones all summer. We only got reasonable weather at a couple, but that's summer in England for you!
Now to prepare myself and the blue Fournier for Red Bull, Perth on 1st November.
Yours, Bob
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 08:05 PM
We didn't have a good summer in Britain in 2008.
As I said above, poor old WGN got bogged down when I stopped outside my hangar coming back from Lasham in early September, because so much rain had fallen.We had to drag her into the hangar with my old Land Rover.
A picture tells a thousand words....
Yours, Bob
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Jorgen
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Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 04:16 PM
Hello,
been there, done that....Last year the airstrip (ESME) were I fuel up did have a very muddy year and I think I even sunk deeper than you did. A sturdy tractor pulled me up. Since then they´ve re-done the drainage and to counter the moleinvasion (that supposedly impair drainage further) they´ve put up resting pins/observation posts for local buzzards so they can predate more on the moles. It´s been much better after that, but I don´t know which made the difference....
Take 5(b) just 4 fun/ Jörgen
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 10:13 PM
Hi Jorgen,
There is no sign of moles at my airstrip, but there are lots and lots of very happy worms. It has been a farm field for many centuries.
My problem is that the hangar faces north, so that area outside the front sees very little (or no) sunshine.
Also I carefully built the hangar in the shelter of some trees and a hedge, to protect it from the wind. I didn't realise at that time that the wind would help to dry out the wet ground.
Matthew Hill ( WGN partner and 'Skyhawk Three') suggests that next spring we put down some special plastic mesh to consolidate the ground there. This yellow stuff was used by Nigel Lamb at Perth's Red Bull Air Race.
Yours, Bob
[Edit by Bob Grimstead on Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 02:59 AM]
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Jorgen
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Posted Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 03:55 PM
Hi,
as I saw in a UK free flying magazine were a (fake?) interview featured a flying Garden Gnome (no doubt inspired by the fantastic french film "Le fabuleux destin de Amelie Poulain" concluded with the Gnome retorting; "-Would you consider starting a gardening column?"
Some of us seems fortunate enough(?) to have more or less our own airstrips. But be careful what you start here Bob, because there is no end to discussions on how to best tend a large lawn, let alone an air strip. The subject diverges wildly- pesticides, mowing methods, fertilizing, draining etc etc. So let´s start a new topic- wasn´t it Rosseau who said "-Il faut cultiver son jardin!!!"
Take 5(b) just 4 fun/ Jörgen
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 09:26 PM
Aha 'Amelie'. What a charming movie that was.
Must watch it again.
Not interested in gardening though. The only mowing I ever do is to mow that narrow strip along the middle of our runway every week during the summer. Walking up and down 360 metres four times while pushing our mower is quite enough for me!
Although I do drive the tractor & 'topper' up and down every fortnight as well, to trim the rest of the airstrip. I share it with two other guys, but one has a very STOL microlight, so he's not worried about the height of the grass, neither is the other, who flies a Cub with big tyres, but only ever goes off solo.
As to fertilizing? Never! It only makes the bloody green stuff grow all the faster.
Yours, Bob
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