Year End fly in at Pokweni from the 12 ~ 16 October 2016.
Because there was not a Holiday only a handful of the WRF Members attend this Event. But... this handful had there Fun.
Where the lazybones siting at home to get even more lazy...yah!
Werner, Erwin and Thomas decided to drive together as a Convoy and arrived at Pokweni on the afternoon of the 12.10. The campsites was quick build up so that they can relax for the day.
Next morning the assembling of there planes and the first flights took place. Long before the others arrived then too, peu à peu.
At the end, 11 Pilots where there.
Because the WRF committee expected more pilots to come along, it was upfront decided to make a spit-roast for all on one evening:
A whole sheep... 6 hours slow cooking over charcoal... an crunchy and finger licking yum-yum.
The highlight this time was Erwin's Waco. 400cc partitioned in 5 Cylinders and 50kg weight make this Plane extra tremendous. And the flight too.
A beauty, on ground and in the air.
All in all, and worth mentioning: We had no crashes. (Okay... some confetti from foamy's... and here and there some crack... but nothing seriously.)
A warm thanks goes to Sammy who came from Okahandja and an extra Dankeschön to Christian who drove again all the way up from Swakopmund.
Thanks to everyone from the WRF Club and of course, to Jos van der Merwe from the Farm and the Pokweni Soaring Club.
BTW. For all who love to fly at Pokweni, there is in the Pipeline: Some sociably weekend in February or March 2017 and than the almost usual Fly in end of May again. Keep an eye here on our webpage, your Emails and on Whats App guys...
Because there was not a Holiday only a handful of the WRF Members attend this Event. But... this handful had there Fun.
Where the lazybones siting at home to get even more lazy...yah!
Werner, Erwin and Thomas decided to drive together as a Convoy and arrived at Pokweni on the afternoon of the 12.10. The campsites was quick build up so that they can relax for the day.
Next morning the assembling of there planes and the first flights took place. Long before the others arrived then too, peu à peu.
At the end, 11 Pilots where there.
Because the WRF committee expected more pilots to come along, it was upfront decided to make a spit-roast for all on one evening:
A whole sheep... 6 hours slow cooking over charcoal... an crunchy and finger licking yum-yum.
The highlight this time was Erwin's Waco. 400cc partitioned in 5 Cylinders and 50kg weight make this Plane extra tremendous. And the flight too.
A beauty, on ground and in the air.
All in all, and worth mentioning: We had no crashes. (Okay... some confetti from foamy's... and here and there some crack... but nothing seriously.)
A warm thanks goes to Sammy who came from Okahandja and an extra Dankeschön to Christian who drove again all the way up from Swakopmund.
Thanks to everyone from the WRF Club and of course, to Jos van der Merwe from the Farm and the Pokweni Soaring Club.
BTW. For all who love to fly at Pokweni, there is in the Pipeline: Some sociably weekend in February or March 2017 and than the almost usual Fly in end of May again. Keep an eye here on our webpage, your Emails and on Whats App guys...
This time, 14 Pilots, Friends and Family where again at Pokweni for 4 days of flying and to have some fun in this coming-together. As in the past, everybody enjoyed the perfect camping facilities, the enormous space at the Pan and the flying without limits.
The Weather was quite okay too. The Wind was moderate and only at night it was to cool for a T shirt and shorts.
How popular this Event is, is proven by Christian who again drove all the way up from Swakopmund.
And Frank.
He flew cross country with his Piper Seneca not only to bring himself from Swakopmund, no, even more, to pick up Andre from the Okahandja Airfield and Sammy who lastly got in Windhoek on board.
All Maiden flights were rather successful: (Only to name the large petrol powered Planes.)
Werner' s very nice Stinson Reliant as well as Thomas new Wilga got Airborne.
Except for Erwin.
His first landing with his newly repaired Corsair was not sooo hard, but enough to damage one landing gear. Okay, such things are happening from time to time.
But his 's 80cc Mustang “Gentleman Jim”...
The Motor obviously produced so much vibrations that short after take of; firstly the Cockpit disintegrated in bits and pieces. Than, some Cowling covers falling off and one Elevator becomes loose. Only connected to the push-rod, hanging 45 degrees into the Air, it was a wonder that it was not flying away too.
To make this flight even more difficult, one Aileron servo became loose and one side of the Flaps was not operational anymore.
On a normal Airfield, for such heavily damaged Plane it is often time to say goodbye.
But thanks to the extremely long and wide “runway” he got the chance and managed it to land his Plane safely. With Wings who was only slightly “attached” to the Fuselage anymore: These Screws was loose too.
Congratulations for this remarkable Maiden flight, Erwin. One Story more to tell on the Campfires to come...
It is not possible to recount all the things happen... Olaf his funny looking Quickie... Christians huge Helicopter and all the Ah's and Oh's. Also when Frank showed Brian what his 100cc Edge can really do in the Air. And not to forget: The sound of Erwin's 250cc Fw 190.
At last:
A warm thanks to you all for making such an Event possible in the first place.
