...and anyone who fancies a flavour of this landing can go to the
Long Mynd gliding strip in Shropshire. But if you do, then don't make
the mistake we made - aiming to put it down between the boulders we
discovered that some of the boulders were sleeping sheep which jumped
up and ran in all directions just before touchdown...
That wasn't in a Europa but in the very same PA28 which featured in
"A Plane is Born" (when Matey is looking at the alternatives to a kit-
built aircraft).
Willie
On 13 Oct 2008, at 00:25, Mike Gregory wrote:
> Paul,
>
> According to http://carlturner.blogspot.com/
> 2008_07_01_archive.html , it was on the Lake District mountain of
> Helvellyn in Cumbria:
>
> "Helvellyn's summit is fairly flat, and in 1926 Australian aviation
> pioneer Bert Hinkler (with John Leeming) landed an Avro 585 here.
> Hinkler gained worldwide fame two years later when he became the
> first man to fly solo from Britain to Australia, an event largely
> eclipsed in the public memory when Britain's Amy Johnson repeated
> the feat in 1930 thus becoming the first woman to do so."
>
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