Part III, from the untold story

Next in the program was to pick up Markku Roscier from ALMT who would do the annual check.
For some reason I didn't understand mikko's concern when I took pics of Madrid city and us while driving... haven't you heard about multitasking! After looking at some more pics in the camera I have to come to a conclusion that he had to see something really interesting or disturbing on the sidewalk (short skirts?)

I couldn't find anything...
But it wastime to get back to the airport and to the annual check. Markku seemed to be happy with the papers and the plane. Like one supposed too when the papers and planepart numbers go together. So one's again we need to do a test flight to confirm that everything is running smoothly as it should before going back home. With a smile like that you know that everything is running OK, ain't life good!
Time to put the plane inside the hangar, clean up (Yes, Jesus also the 8JX as you asked) and fly back home so that I can return soon.

Part II

Work time. Mikko seems to be happy working on the plane or that what he's supposed to do instead of posing to the camera ;-D


Well the annual took its time to complete but I don't mind since we got it made and I got to check my office. Note to myself, mikko didn't leave any tools in the plane so he goes to the better category of mechanics!
Business time, this is why we wake up in the morning. And when you report that everything is OK, what happens is that the mechanic takes your seat and wants to do his own checks. Well I guess we have to let them do that so they stay happy.

Busy week behind, part I

But before the story I have to show you an "healthy meal" that was ordered by my friends in Abu Dhabi Mall. You eat one of those per day and soon your pump stops to tick... Next to it is a Nokia E90 phone which is a miniature brick so NO photoshop has been used on this pic!!


After coming home to the still cold Helsinki on Monday last week I had two days time to arrange some running stuff before going back to the sun.
So back on the plane, this time with Mikko Lahti from Joenservice maintenance company to take care of the annual maintenance on my plane.

But before we got to Madrid we decided to have a coffee break in Brussels. And what else do you bump into than the Red Bull Airrace...
But it's time to continue towards Madrid...

And 20 minutes after the picture above we have landed and it's dark but warm outside.


Part II of the story will be posted within 24 hours...

Race day

Well hats off for Matt Hall. I don't think anyone could expect a result like that, 5th place. Matthias came in on 11th place while Yoshi was 13th and Pete 15th after hitting the Air Gate and pulling out of the track. Until then it was a truly solid flight and in my eyes would have been good enough to take Pete to the next round.
Well time to finish off in Abu Dhabi, something new will follow up soon, since we got the ball rolling...

Weather in Abu Dhabi

Weather someone is asking. +45 C degrees is announced today during the race and you can feel the heat now when we have a calm day. This is good since every competitor has an equal racetrack.

So, destination unknown is Abu Dhabi

Nice weather (seems to be an favourite topic...) what else can you say.Came to Abu Dhabi for the Red Bull Airrace to meet my friends. Matt, Matthias, Pete and Yoshi are competing for the first time at an Red Bull Airrace and there would not be a way that I would miss this moment to see them for the first time at the race track.


Managed to capture Mike Goulian in the quadro, the others where too fast (sorry Mike). You could see the difference in the planes (which are not equal) and in the lines they where flying to get a good time.

Tomorrow is the qualification and it will be nice to see how it goes for the guys. Keeping my fingers crossed for the rookies!

Destination Unknown...

As promised here are some plane pics to destination unknown. The start looked like this with some nice weather.

After some 20 minutes into the flight we where treated with a nice Finnish coastline and some incoming cloudbase.


The final destination (unknown) is shown below and notice that the pic isn't out of focus, shaken or stirred ;-D
The plane just moved so fast that the camera wasn't able to follow :-D
Yes, there will be more info about the destination.

Spring is coming to Finland

Yes, the weather seems to improve alot. Now +4 degrees C but still with some cold northerly winds. The runway has opened up at EFHV but there is no taxiway that could be used due to the remaining snow banks... Hope to provide to you soon some warmer pics including airplanes too ;-D