Monday, September 19, 2011
Poland and Czech Republic
Flying west from Lithuania through Poland, we visited the Masurian lakes district on the advice of a German aero journalist we'd met in Bonn. The area is fast developing into an aviation hot spot and swooped and cycled around several of the airfields there. Hitler's eastern front bunker, where he spent the majority of his time in the war is clearly visible from the air, though overgrown with vegetation.
The amazing huge flying club/hotel at Kikkity was a revelation. The pilots there invited us to accompany them on a four day tour of the Czech Republic, along with 18 other planes.
There are many timber carvings like these ones in the forests in the area.
Czech is an excellent place to aviate - the rolling terrain is endlessly interesting, there are many amazing historic towns to see and they have a strong history of flying and aircraft design and manufacture.
For anyone thinking of going to Prague who hasn't been there before, I'd suggest you go to Cesky Kromlov instead. It is jaw droppingly awesome.
Here we are relaxing under the wing at the first of 7 stops on the rally schedule.
This is Siggy who invited us to join the Czech rally.
We managed to snap some decent mid air shots of our friend Simon on the final leg of the day. We are still trying to meet up with him again after several failed attempts due to bad weather or us having to fly elsewhere. He is a totally classic character!
The amazing huge flying club/hotel at Kikkity was a revelation. The pilots there invited us to accompany them on a four day tour of the Czech Republic, along with 18 other planes.
There are many timber carvings like these ones in the forests in the area.
Czech is an excellent place to aviate - the rolling terrain is endlessly interesting, there are many amazing historic towns to see and they have a strong history of flying and aircraft design and manufacture.
For anyone thinking of going to Prague who hasn't been there before, I'd suggest you go to Cesky Kromlov instead. It is jaw droppingly awesome.
Here we are relaxing under the wing at the first of 7 stops on the rally schedule.
This is Siggy who invited us to join the Czech rally.
We managed to snap some decent mid air shots of our friend Simon on the final leg of the day. We are still trying to meet up with him again after several failed attempts due to bad weather or us having to fly elsewhere. He is a totally classic character!
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