Tas Tour - Launy en route Lake Pedder (an even dozen) continued...

[Hotspot]

Luigi (ex Italian Airforce) and his young sister Sophia set course at Launceston for Lake Pedder, part of the world tour he has given her as a 21st birthday present. Hoping for clearing weather, they want to see some of the beautiful mountain lakes for which Tassie is renowned.

The snow is lying on the mountain plateaus, and Luigi is so impressed by the natural beauty that they choose........

a small lake on which to 'land' and have lunch........

While relaxing in the serene surroundings, Luigi, who was already a young trainee pilot in the Airforce when Sophia was born, and who has lived away from home ever since, reminisces on life in the force from a trainee in old biplanes ...............

through the many variations and duties,......

one of which was a secondment to the French Airforce in Morrocco teaching young recruits to fly in French Nords, which although looking like a bucket of bolts was a good performer and built like a brick outhouse - a pleasure to fly...

...progressing to the wooden wonder, which was light enough to perform extraordinarily well on only 750HP, but when hit by gunfire the wood shattered so badly that life expectancy was not the best......

to eventually the chief test pilot for the new jet fighter, which for many reasons, none to do with the aircraft, never went into full production.

Luigi sees himself in his minds eye as sweeping through the beautiful Tasmanian countryside

in one of the best performing fighters of the day

.....to an imaginary approach to Lake Pedder.

to be continued 

[VH-WCE]

great shots there mate!

[Iain Emms]

Yes mate very nice shots indeed.

cheers

Iain.

[Fritz]

Love the pics, matey.

Thanks

Fritz.

[John York]

Absolutely brilliant.. err, corny but certainly brilliant Bill.

John

[maxter]

That was great, very imaginative

Cheers and thanks for sharing those.

[Hotspot]

err, corny but certainly brilliant Bill.

John

Thanks for the interest and comments fellas, as they say in the classics, 'you can take the boy out of the bush, but never the bush out of the boy' or something to that effect  - but wait for the next episode 

[John York]

Oh my.  Its going to be a serial!  Do they get married or do they first join the mile high club 'cos his sister turns out not to be his sister at all?

John

[Hotspot]

Oh my.  Its going to be a serial!  Do they get married or do they first join the mile high club 'cos his sister turns out not to be his sister at all?

John

Are you psychic JohnY? - but now it's spoiled thankyou, I'll have to go to plan B. 

[afl04]

They are great, cheers

Nick