Previously, I made mention of my interest in matters aviation related. I shall make mention of it again.
I've recently returned from a brief driving holiday that mostly involved me freezing my butt off as I journeyed south in a small campervan. Staying in caravan parks along the way, I managed to avoid a dose of tinea from showers of dubious cleanliness and miraculously caught nothing from unsettlingly warm toilet seats.
A highlight of the journey was without doubt a visit to the Temora Aviation Museum located around an hours drive north of Wagga Wagga. A disneyland for anyone interested in aircraft or engineering, the museum houses one of the finest collections of airworthy vintage aircraft outside of the USA/UK. Superbly operated, the flying days are a magnificent spectacle of what can be achieved when enthusiastic hobbyists come into contact with large amounts of disposable cash. For a very reasonable entrance fee, the visitor is treated to beautifully restored and maintained aircraft worth many millions of dollars, all running better than the day they rolled off the production line.
If you have any interest in such things, I suggest google it and go.
Today's shout out obviously goes to the folks at the Temora Aviation Museum. Brilliant!
Today's shout down goes to caravan parks that charge heaps for unpowered campsites. Gimme a break, only $2 less than a powered site??
"Blue Steel", by Dan the VespaMan.
Powering up the V12
Give it a little throttle,
The Merlin sings its song
Those guys must have had some bottle.
The heritage of the skies
Should be something we keep forever,
We owe a lot to it
And to forget it we should never.
They can't be proper pilots, they don't have moustaches. All proper pilots have moustaches. Nothing quite like the sound of 2500 hp worth of Merlin though (unles you like the sound of massive radial engines).
ReplyDeleteHi Phil,
ReplyDeleteAgreed, and not a silk scarf in sight. I would have thought that moustaches and silk scarf's would be part of basic equipment.