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Well - I think it's time to drop my mask (at least a bit)

 

My name is Martin, I'm a fully qualified archaeologist but work as a freelance translator. I grew up in planes because my father was constantly posted to exotic places by his company and have survived loopings in a helicopter over Barbados, non-closing doors on Ghana Airways back in the seventies, engine failures on transatlantic flights and made it safely back to the ground after taking near-derelict Russian commercial jets... I actually wanted to become a pilot once, but my eyes prevented that dream from coming to fruition.

 

I've been flightsimming from the good old Microprose days.

 

In this pic I was a bit pissed to be dragged out from behind my screen to go for a walk.

 

 

My other real hobby is 2CVs. I've had the one in this pic

 

 

for more than 23 years now, but currently also call an Ami 6 my own and had AK 400 vans, Acadianes and Visas in the past. The neat part about the 2CV is that it's a bit like flying an old biplane. Wind hits you from all angles, the windows are hinged half-way up like in some Cessnas and the needle of the speedometer gets stuck sometimes, so that you have to tick it with your finger to get it moving again - like in those old airplane disaster movies where they suddenly realise that they have run out of fuel

 

By the way - the car is commonly known as "the duck" in German - and that's where my Mallard nick comes from (loads of German 2CV drivers only know me under that name)...

 

Cheers

 

Mallard 

Well Hello Martin , now if we can just get Stillwater (Gerold) to come out from behind the curtain . :D

 

Brad

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Hi there

[All the way up.. 1. Stewart Island to Invercargill]

Great shots Tom, especially the first one!!!

+1 - The first shot is a real stunner .

Cheers

John

[B-17 Sweet Dish]

Nice shots and interesting story.

+1

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Hello - looking foward to KSFF scenery - home airport