Hi all, Today, by way of celebrating my father's 85th birhday, we spend an afternoon at the Aviodrome aviation musuem at Lelystad Airport (EHLE). The museum that is known in the FlightGear community as the location were FSWeekend is taking place. I came from Belgium, and my father, my sister and her husband all live in the Northern parts of the netherlands, so we decided to organize something halfway, and settled on the aviodrome, which was actually my sister's idea.
Arriving just before noon, we were in for a big chunk of rain as a rather big thunderstorm was passing close by, but we managed to stay dry for the better part. Despite the rain, the conditions for flying were pretty good, so there was quite a lot of activity at the airport itself, and the museum had two Dakota flights scheduled for the day. We watched the departure of one of them, which was a little delayed by the rain. After spending about 4 hours in the museum, both indoors and outdoors, we decided to go out for dinner in nearby flatuna's restaurant, a place that is also famous among the FSWeekend booth staff. This little restaurant is located along the runway, and we were in for a another few surprises. One of them was the take-off of a fouga-magister, for which you can apparently book a short flight @2000 euros per 20 minutes. But, the highlight of the day was undoubtedly the arrival of second Dakota. not expecting, it I noticed it arrive, as we were finishing dinner. The aircraft was given an escort of ground vehicles back to the museum, and was given a water salute by the fire brigade. By that time, the wether had cleared and the sun was already reaching for the horizon. As the DC-3 was nearing the end of the taxiway, a rainbow seemed to touch it. As it turned out, this was the final flight of the captain, before retiring. All in all a very nice ending of a great day. Some pictures are here: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7455889/1/A-Day-At-the-Museum?h=d9972f Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
