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  1. July 8th, 2013, 06:19 #51
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    Hi all the folks back home,


    Took off from RPUQ to RPUO with flight 19, and as usual the weather was questionabe. The cloud cover was covering up some fairly high peaks on course, but, we believe that we were high enough to clear the big ones on our heading. A few of the pilots made the choice of flying out over the coast to go around these bugger. Put it this way we were darn forunate that we didn't run into one of those granite clouds. The fig got a little thicker as we all on approach into RPUO, crying out loud, couldn't see a darn thing until we were just a few feet above the water, our luck held, we could see Willy and Mike setting in the cove like this was an another day in the life of Flight 19.

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  2. July 8th, 2013, 06:22 #52
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    Hehe, just a few more pictures of the same flight.
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  3. July 11th, 2013, 19:28 #53
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    We left Taiwan and flew on over to mainland China. Nice flight even if the Chinese do put bridges in the most inappropriate places. I was intending on landing there.....
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  4. July 12th, 2013, 22:56 #54
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    No pictures, but we had a great flight on down the Chinese coast.
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    We splashed down into Hong Kong harbour.

    There was some discussion about the scenery. As best as I can tell I just have default going currently in the screenie.

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  6. July 13th, 2013, 20:01 #56
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    And here's what I was seeing on the bank or rather not seeing...

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    California Classics Hong Kong 1960ish.
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  7. July 16th, 2013, 19:41 #57
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    We left Hong Kong and started working our way down the coast...
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  8. July 17th, 2013, 22:39 #58
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    We made it to Hainan Island.
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  9. July 19th, 2013, 10:39 #59
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    Only got one pic last night...

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  10. July 19th, 2013, 19:35 #60
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    Taco and MM were still holed up over at the Yellow Lotus Blossom Happy Relax Parlour, so Willy and I soldiered on to Danang.



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  11. July 19th, 2013, 20:22 #61
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    Nice overwater flight to Danang although the only thing to see enroute was this ol' CVL.
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  12. July 21st, 2013, 08:29 #62
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    Hi folks, here are three photos from last nights flight. VVDN to VVTH. Only pictures I got the bloody computer locked up tighter than a drum. Don't know the problem, but this has been happening for the last few weeks.


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  13. July 21st, 2013, 09:52 #63
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    Only got one pic last night before I was forced offline by real life t-storms. Danang Airbase

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  14. July 22nd, 2013, 20:12 #64
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    Made it to Saigon. Switching to something a bit slower for sightseeing.

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    Deep in the jungle near VVCT. Low and slow is the best way to navigate through these rivers.



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  16. July 25th, 2013, 06:10 #66
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    #%$^$, Hey, dipstick I thought you said we had wheels!
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    :isadizzy: Well, after repairs to the S5 we finally found where Flight 19 was having their BBQ. This time we landed on the water, hehe, and along with the CNs we made our way to VVCT. The S5 is just a little slower than the other floaters, but we won't that far behind. Low and Slow something different for this group. lol.
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  18. July 25th, 2013, 19:22 #68
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    I was having some issues with the Shagbat, so I switched to one of Igor's floaters. Hard to go wrong with a Sikorsky. Even did a low speed buzzing of the tower...
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  19. July 26th, 2013, 09:31 #69
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    Well shucks, it was a short flight, but a very enjoyable one.
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  20. July 27th, 2013, 09:52 #70
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    Hey people.

    Another short flight NP, give us a chance to look around the country a little. One thing happened, hehe, Moses throttles stuck, now I can just see Moses standing up in the open cockpit swinging a hammer or using a pointed stick on the throttles. Really don't know he got to work again but he did make a very nice landing.
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  21. July 28th, 2013, 04:47 #71
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    LOL, now this was a real short flight. 29 miles or so! Well, any way we made the best of it, flew around the very large hills in order to extend the flight time, but it sure seemed short any way. Our next flight is a little longer 71 miles or so. Hehe don't know if we can stand that much time in the air! Cya later
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  22. July 30th, 2013, 22:19 #72
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    We made it to Bangkok where we'll be switching aircraft for a new adventure.

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