Monthly Archive
for: ‘August, 2011’

What a day!! It is very late but here is a quick update before turning off the lights!! Please forgive any typos! The weather here is beautiful and there are so many nice people from many different countries. The airplanes are amazing and the paint schemes interesting. Michael Racy was already here so he introduced me around …

Quick update…we concluded the Elite Aerobatic Formula Contest in Riga, Latvia and I finished second after Martin Sonka.  Svetlana was third. It was a great format and the venue was very cool. After the awards ceremony in the city Martin and I left for Czech Republic. I am half way to Terni Italy and the …

Well I have been traveling for 12hours now and have only made it to Atlanta. Not as far as I would have liked, but definately the correct direction…east. Delta airlines and I had a vey bad day. First I got up at5:30 am to make my 9:00am flight. Just a little anxious I guess. After …

Martin Sonka and I made it to Riga today between a break in the weather. Beautiful low flight over the Baltic and the country side of Estonia and Latvia.  Mikhail continued on to Lithuania to train and will be back tomorrow. Jeff

Try to leave Finland to Riga, Latvia but the weather is not cooperating. We will stop over at the aviation museum and have something to eat and then take another look at the weather. We had a great time at the airshow. Check out some youtube at Sami Kontio Challenge.  Jeff

This morning I got up early to leave Sweden and fly to Malmi, Finland. The weather was perfect and the scenery was very beautiful.  At the Malmi airport it rained for a couple if hours a d it put us a bit behind for the practice.  I was the only pilot to fly before we …

Wednesday I flew the Extra to Stockholm and met up with Daniel and Joakim. Today Daniel and flew a Skybolt and Joakim flew a Decathlon to another small airport 10 minutes north.  I had an amazing opportunity ti fly a 1936 Klemm 35. What a great airplane. To top it off I flew a T-6 …

Tobi and I worked for 10 hours today putting the Extra together.  It is looking good and ready to fly. The CargoLux flight was late getting here in Monday so we could not get to the airplane until Tuesday morning but the good news was there was not a scratch on the airplane and everything …

I had an amazing time flying AirVenture this summer, it was my first time flying the show and it was a great experience.  Afterwards I flew the plane to St. Augustine, FL and the guys at Southeast Aero disassembled the Extra and loaded it on a truck to Atlanta.  I am here at CargoLux to …