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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 @ 11:36 PM  

Hiya Fellow Fournicators,

As most of you know, one of my big annual flying highlights is the solo aerobatic display I fly over the river outside our home on Australia Day (26th January). Yesterday's event was planned for 8:30am, when the temperature was only +35C (it got up to 41C / 110F later). One of the great things about this show is that it is 30 miles north of our Serpentine base, so I get ATC clearance to fly to it in a straight line through all the airspace northwards at 2,000 feet, and then afterwards to follow the Canning and Swan Rivers out to the Indian Ocean at Fremantle 'not above 1,500 feet'.

It was a beautiful blue, cloudless morning, so I fitted the GoPro on top of my fin. Not yet having a remote for it, I couldn't take video footage, so instead I set it to capture a photo every five seconds.
Here is a selection of the images I got.

First the take-off from Serpentine:

Next a bit of practice on the way up. This is the 'impossible' left stall turn:

Passing Jandakot Airport (Perth's equivelent of Biggin Hill, Teterboro or Van Nuys):

Running in to the tiny display site over the Canning River at Shelley:

Smoke on:

Unfortunately only one smoke on each wing-tip burned, so the smoke is not as dense as usual, and
you can barely see it as I come back down from a stall turn (hammerhead). The crowd is assembled on the foreshore on the left:

As I come lower, it's easier to stay within 200 metres of the river banks:

It's hard to tell with such a wide-angle lens, but my final loop bottoms out as planned at my 500-foot base height:

And then I drop down for my fifty-foot waving run. The crowd on the southern river bank is small, only about 400 people, but that makes it more intimate and personal:

[Edit by Bob Grimstead on Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 00:01 AM]

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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 @ 11:59 PM  

And now for the really scenic bit, the flight back out at 600 feet along the rivers to Fremantle and then south along the Indian Ocean coast back to base. It was all perfectly lit with the sun climbing into the north-eastern sky behind me.

But first, a quick circle over our neighbours' house, a mile or so down-river in the next suburb, where they were having their traditional Australia Day brunch. I drove back up there later, and was presented with a plateful of food big enough to keep me going all the rest of the day!

Then briefly northwards up the Canning River:

Then westwards, along the wide, shallow, meandering Swan River:

Approaching the historic port city of Fremantle:

OK, maybe Fremantle Docks are not quite so scenic, but behind my left trailing-edge is the square-rigged barquentine sail traing ship, the Leeuwin, on which I have spent many a happy hour and day.

Turning left out of the heads, I pass South Fremantle, where thousands of Aussies are celebrating with a day on the beach:

As they also are at Woodman Point:

And finally, after an hour's flying time in an increasingly hot cockpit, back to Serpentine:

where I can't wait to get that canopy open:

It was a great flight, and another reminder (as if we needed one) that Rene has provided us with our very own 'magic carpets' with which we can see great sights that are hidden from other mortals.

I hope you enjoyed the show.

Yours, Bob

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Posted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 03:34 AM  

Great pictures, thank's for sharing
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Posted Saturday, January 28, 2012 @ 07:20 AM  

Great pictures Bob,
really inspiring for those of us still in hibernation! I just got back from another skatesailing session and I can confirm that right now you prefer to keep the canopy closed around here if you catch my drift... Sometimes it's hard to believe that we're on the same planet.

And no, I did not commit a bank robbery, but it was -4 Celsius and 15 kt wind.

May the 4's be with you/ Jörgen

[Edit by Jorgen on Saturday, January 28, 2012 @ 02:40 PM]

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