Two weeks in Wales!!!! (hurray!!!!!)

[TheSoccerMom]

Oooh, this sounds just lovely....  have FUN FUN FUN, and we'll look forward to your stories!!!

 

 

[Oddball]

OK by road i am 480 miles from swansea and it will take 8hrs and 16min so that's still quicker than going through LHR terminal 5 

[AirScorp]

A person's lost in Heathrows diary - Day one

Luggage is lost.. I'm starting to turn around cirles through the terminal.. Athorities are nowhere to be found! It's getting dark.. I'm starting to get cold and afraid.. Think I'm gonna sleep on the terminal floor with the rest of my flight.. I wanna cry!!!!!






















 
Just kidding, terminal 5 was a blast and quick as hell!
I arrived in Swansea and settled in, had a few pints  met a few people and it's just the first day!
Hooray!!!!!!! I NEED SLEEP!  Bye now, I feel like I'm gonna fall asleep before my head comes in contact with the pillow!

[gibbo_335]

HA HA HA HA HA   
Glad you have survived the new Terminal 5 maze....congratulations mate..you have PASSED!!! 
Did you stop by Gordon Ramsays new resturant for a bite of "Plane Food" ??  I think he had the foresight to put it there for lost PAX so they don't starve hee hee

 
Have heaps o' beers to keep up your vitamins 

HAVE A BLAST NICK!!!

[Oddball]

well thats the first test over the next test is understanding welsh and remember to drive on the left hand side of the road lol question for you all: Whats the national food of wales? (answer at the bottom of this post)




























































Answer: Cheese on toast (welsh rarebit) 

[AirScorp]

Hey Oddie, I don't know anything about that... Myself, I just had the old "fish and chips" (fried cod with potatoes) plate today,

Had a blast walking on the beach in Swansea and taking the stage in a pub called "Mozarts" with my friend.. She was playing "Rape me" by Nirvana and I got to do the second vocals' "rape me" part.. Right now we're at some other greek's house, drinking beer and talking about all kinds of things.. We also have a german guy with us and he can't speak a word of Greek, I guess he's starting to freak out!

Yea guys, great times! And it's a great city too! Maybe a bit too relaxed, but I like the laid-back attitude they have here..

Ok, when I'm not feeling lazy as I do now, maybe I'll upload some pics..

Also saw a small prop plane flying above the city.. I just wonder if it was Leia..

[Oddball]

well maybe next time you could come up to my part of the world, good to hear you are having fun down there.

[AirScorp]

Pics in the life through your camera thread!

[leiafee]

And it's a great city too! Maybe a bit too relaxed, but I like the laid-back attitude they have here..

Ah yes -- Swansea "The Graveyard of Ambition" in the words of her most famous son... ;-)

Also saw a small prop plane flying above the city.. I just wonder if it was Leia..

Grr.  Working today.  Must get airborne at the weekend. 

[leiafee]

Well, met up with AirScorp today and went out the airfield.  Unfortunately subjected to typical Welsh weather and there was no flying to be had (40 degrees off the runway gusting 27 knots in spitting rain...).  But we mooched aroudn the hangars, admired assorted Yaks, and did a lot of "hangar flying" with other grounded-by-weather pilots, and drank a lot of coffee!

[AirScorp]

Yea, weather was not good in any standarts  but we managed to have a great time with Leia! She's such a sweet pie and a great person to chat about planes!
So, we had a $5 burger instead of a $100 one  did a lot of hangar flying and chat over the weather and all the places she's been too.. made me feel at home at the airport, GREAT!

And i don't think pilots ever drink water! It has to be either coffee or beer! Imagine that.. 

[airtac]

Yea, weather was not good in any standarts  but we managed to have a great time with Leia! She's such a sweet pie and a great person to chat about planes!
So, we had a $5 burger instead of a $100 one  did a lot of hangar flying and chat over the weather and all the places she's been too.. made me feel at home at the airport, GREAT!

And i don't think pilots ever drink water! It has to be either coffee or beer! Imagine that.. 

And generally it's the worst coffee imaginable-----Now, why is THAT!! ---I guess it's the great company we keep

[Oddball]

i think its to make you pee before you fly airtac saves you draining your "tank" over the side while flying 

[leiafee]

Ermm for the avoidance of doubt, the ailing aeroplane which is now in a rather sorry heap at Swansea is nothing to do with me!

No one hurt happily, but a bit of a mess.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7366068.stm

[Rooster Cruiser]

Ermm for the avoidance of doubt, the ailing aeroplane which is now in a rather sorry heap at Swansea is nothing to do with me!

No one hurt happily, but a bit of a mess.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7366068.stm

Hmmmmmmmmm...  Nope.  That ain't a Tommyhawk.   

So what happened, Leia?  The BBC appears to be coming up short on the 5 "W's" of Journalism with this report, i.e., Who What Where When and Why.  The What part is it appears to have been a C177RG.  Now I notice that the prop appears to be intact and not bent, so I am guessing that this was not an inadvertent gear up landing.  The pilot appears to have stopped the engine and got the prop horizontal before making a dead-stick landing in order to save his engine.

Was the gear completely up, or did the main gear saddle break and the pilot landed with just the nosewheel extended?  I can't make out much in that pic, but it appears that the nosewheel is out.  Its a bit unusual since in most cases of a broken gear saddle in Cessna singles, just one of the main gear will go down and locked but the other will be in trail.

Kudos to the pilot.  He did a fine job of getting it down in one piece.  This airplane is actually reusable after a little metal work.