Visiting Torben & Seattle Propliners

Going to Seattle again in febuary was something I was looking forward to since Torbens visit here in Germany over christmas. Allthough febuary is usually not the best month for rainy Seattle, I enjoyed a fun week, doing lots of stuff with my litte guy. I guess the best thing for him was our visit to Paul Allen's Experience Music Project and the sunset we watched on top of the Space Needle, but as always there was some aviation involved in my stay as well. As always there are many more pics on my flickr-page.
Aviationwise my personal highlights were the freshly restored Connie at the museum of flight, as well as the Honeywell Convair at Everett. I'll be back!

Namastee India!

With just two weeks booking in advance, Katrin and I decided on a rather exotic destination for our short winter vaccation: GOA, India. With a passion for indian food, indepth sight-seeing and general curiosity we could not have made a better choice for our holiday. So many impressions: we had the grestest food in greasy indian restaurants, saw the most amazing animals in nature such as wild monkeys, pics, cows, snakes, crabs, buffalos. During our 10 day stay we did not see a single cloud in the sky.
The bigger part of our GOA-experience could be named "India by foot"! We walked for miles and miles everyday and only occational took a Tuc-Tuc or a taxi. We experienced very nice and helpful people during our adventure. I will be starting uploading some pics on my flickr.com site soon.
Although this was not an "aviation adventure", I could not have survived this time without at least a few airplanes - the Naval Aviation Museum on the southside of the airport was the place to go. The pic shows the last surviving Lockheed Super-Constellation in India ....with truck tires.

The other picture shows one of the restaurants we had lunch at - nice and clean... but the most delicious food you can imagine.

Sold!

As of today I am not the proud owner anymore of my Lockheed F-104G Starfighter pitot-cover. I always found it cool to have but it was only sitting in the corner of my office until I met a guy on the net who is busy with a great project: the complete restauration of a Starfighter cockpit section inside and out. The project takes place in his garden and fills up a lot of it. 

I think it was a good decision selling my part and now seeing it being used for its actual purpose (if you are woundering what I am talking about: it is the long red and white tube on its nose)

As I read about it a few month ago, o decided to visit the gliding airfield Wenzendorf, near Buchholz in der Nordheide - a former WW2 aircraft factory and military airfield on my way back home. Today only relics remain in a little forrest grown over by trees and it is only possible to imagine how this looked seventy years back. Some parts of the barracks are still in use as an old-folks home and a few other purposes.