After what feels like forever the container arrived today. Customs and local trucking was no problem at all and as far as I could see there was no damage to the Glasair kit. But as always I am very impressed by the truckers, they got the container unloaded in a tiny space with no problems at all.

Was over in Copenhagen, Denmark at that tiny WWII strip usually closed to the public.

The event was enjoyable as usual but even more fun was the trip back. Flew in formation with a Tiger Moth and the weather was really bad with entbedded CB’s and all. But Copenhagen tower asked us to cross their airspace at 500ft.

And since their airspace includes part of the oeresund bridge (the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark) we actually flew at a flightlevel below the pylons (600ft AGL) of the bridge. And in a part of the world where flying below 1500ft is basically forbidden that is fun. In moments like this I do miss the US flying over the desert at a very low level in a perfectly legal way..
Only downside of yesterday was that the combination of weather and formation flying disabled me from getting any good pictures.

But once again I do really appriciate the Glastar. I was the only “modern” aircraft at that airfield since the strip is so short. I flew formation with a sub 70kt airplane and then used my tiny 120Hp engine to get a TAS at almost twice that on the remaining leg after leaving the Moth… There are not many designs that could handle all that..

After a huge amount of unexpected problems the container is finally on the Atlantic. Expected to arrive in Europe late August. The liability concerns in the US makes what in Europe is an easy task something that can be almost impossible. The biggest problem was to find a trucker willing to go to a residential address and pick the container up!
I got so many questions in the meantime about how to do it I might have to write a separate page about it.