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  • The Signs Were There - when not to fly!

    Today I got some flying experience.  I learned a lesson or two!  Nature...p and missed due to too high and crosswind - I would have landed too long (300m strip - not worth the risk). Ag...

  • Night Ride Home

    ...barn for four right on the airstrip, and hot pools and restaurant...setting down on the soft wet grass.  The tents go up, and g...y home. Murchison is a short grass strip dotted with cows.  It ta..." We're parked on a patch of grass in the Rakaia valley.  T...

  • Common Dog 01

    "Common Dog" ... 01 Welcome to "Common Dog" number one. As the name suggests these artic...hat's it made of?... Well this is a good one. You can have a runway made of grass...

  • A trip to North Queensland Australia. AKA The Bundy Run...

    ...a straight-in approach on the grass strip. It looked like a good...irection, but the tussocks of grass made for quite rough taxi-ing...g the land near Tangalooma airstrip. In the distance, amid mist a...me, and blew crosswind to all strip directions, just to give us a...

  • Acceleration: əksĕlərā'shən (Not flying related (well sort of)-- but cool as hell)

      DEFINITION OF ACCELERATION For those who love numbers, engineers...the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the adv...

  • Beware the Drop Bear.

    Beware the Drop Bear.               &n...months behind schedule. The weather is getting better, of course that means the grass...

  • Fly-ins – 2013 (revised 3-28-13)

    ...aft welcome. Byrd's features two grass runways along the wild and sc...nic Mulberry River. Our 2,500-foot strip is suitable for many single-e...Store. Visit our Fly page for airstrip details or call 479-667-4066...26 miles Sep 22 EAA241 HINCKLEY grassroots BREAKFAST flyin hinckle...

  • Fly-ins – 2013 (revised 4-3-13)

    ...aft welcome. Byrd's features two grass runways along the wild and sc...nic Mulberry River. Our 2,500-foot strip is suitable for many single-e...Store. Visit our Fly page for airstrip details or call 479-667-4066...26 miles Sep 22 EAA241 HINCKLEY grassroots BREAKFAST flyin hinckle...

  • Why we have a Radio...

    Why Aircraft have Radios… (Australia)        &...llow lines, two solid and two broken ones. This means you are passed the flight strip and now you are really clear...

  • Why Aircraft have Radio's...

    Why Aircraft have Radios…         In...llow lines, two solid and two broken ones. This means you are passed the flight strip and now you are really clear...