Arayan Lias was king enough to send me a CD with over 200 pictures of the fly-in, as well as a short movie. These pictures, and those emailed by Joe Vasille are in a new gallery album here: Bucker & BBQ '09 Album. The Movie is to be found on the Movie page, or here: BuBBQ Movie .

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Brian karli - In his element!

Joe Vasile and John Hickman flew their Junmann all the way from California and and it sounds like it was a great trip.

"The weather was perfect we did not see a cloud until we got to Florida!  The price for such good weather however was 10-15 kt headwinds the entire trip West to East!  29.4 hours 16 legs and 5 days to make it to Live Oak. 

John in OK-BIG  and Jim White (in Steve Craig,s new Jungmann (former Brian Esssler Jungmann) are en-route to San Diego as I write this.  Unfortunately they are hitting all the bad WX we missed on the way there.
" - Joe

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Marcus Bates, John Hickman and Joanne Bates.

John and Joe stopped at Bates field to meet these people so influential in the operation of Bucker aircraft in the USA.

Thank you Joe and Arayan for the great pictures.