Aviation Tour - Maps on www.bankleft.com

As a generally interested person, I'm never happier than when I meet another enthusiast.

While looking at folding bikes in the window of a Bonn cycle shop, luckily H and I decided to go inside and ask some questions of Franz who, it turned out, is a composite technology bike specialist with a background in fabrication of our favorite German canard aeroplane type! A classic character completely full of life, he has just finished writing a chapter of a German training text book about Carbon Fibre race frames and met us for lunch up at the airport to talk more about flying and cycling. On our last night in town, Franz and his lovely girlfriend Katrin invited us for dinner at their place on the river in Bonn. It was such a nice evening, they are such good company. I'm working on some good options to encourage them to come south later in the year to meet up again :)

This photo is Franz's, of the 'Speedy' factory, where a Desert Storm military training version can be seen amongst many standard white planes.