WHO CAN REMEMBER ROY AND HIS PLANE,AT ORANJEMUND AIRPORT.MANY A SUNDAY ,YOU WOULD SEE HIM FLYING ABOVE ORANJEMUND ,HE WOULD BE THAT LOW YOU COULD WAVE TO HIM AS HE FLEW PAST SMOKING HIS PIPE,MISSING YOUR TV POLE AND YOUR HOUSE ROOF.AND FLYING UPSIDE DOWN...HOW AND WHERE DID THE PLANE COME FROM? WISH I HAD A TOY LIKE ROY.
My dad learnt to fly in the UK as well as his boet Norman, I will have to ask my mum. He took us out once and we had the dog in the back.....typical hey, well, we flew to "kleinzee" I think, not sure. (we were there with the youth club once for a disco, that's where Chris Peace came from, I think. Where is Chris now?" well, back to my dad flying. I went once and we had to shout out "prop" before take off, Standard procedure I think. Well, he let me fly once. Wow it was great. He would always fly over our house and "wave" by diping the plane wings from left to right and that is what a wave was. Fantastic and thanks for remember him in that way. I also remember my dad took Stephanie, when in England I think, to a plane field and she got to fly in a "Moth" one of the old fashioned planes and she did the "loop de loop" how scary that must have been.
Hi Sharon....
WOW...your dad a pilot......was that after i knew him (60's).........must phone my dad tonight and ask him if he knew that.....still no luck with Steven, but will keep looking.
Luv Bev xxx
Shazz, does'nt Stephanie believe in the internet or what? When are we gonna hear form her on the forum?
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Hi Bev, yes me dad was a pilot, let me fly the plane once, he must have been pissed or something allowing me, the rebel at the time to fly,.... oh Mike, yes Steph phoned me today and she has her internet up and running. She has been in the forum and next week she is getting her email address. She will be in contact, I will tell her. cheers for now. Shazz By the way, tell Pual to make arragnements example, paper works for me to come over there....
Shazz! Do you think they will allow you back in, did'nt you leave a tab at the Sportsmans when you left here a few decades ago! hehehehhe! ;D
Ha ha mike, no I did not just loads of empties......come on I want to come "home" for a party.....
Shazz, you should wait for next year, we'll put some kind of reunion together then...... It will be worth the wait!
;D
Mike,
will be waiting for that reunion. This one will be top of my list for 2008!
Yvette
I'll put a few work requests in for PArty lights to be put up and a few nice evenings of East weather..... just for all you old timers..... ;)
Remember how you could put a works request in for just about anything... I knew people that put requests in for there light bulbs to be changed...... true......
;)
didn't your dad deliver a birthday present by flying over town and dropping it down over your house on a rope.
Just get that reunion on the go Mike, okay........hee hee
Barbara, don't you mean the Stork! :D
I am not sure about that but I will ask me mom....
no silly the stork doesn't use rope, it uses delivers under bushes at the gate.
hehehe! For years as a kid , I always thought that black pipe sticking up of the roofs was a chimmney, could never figure out how Father Christmas got down it, i think it was during one of my 17 year old drunken stupors on the roof , I realized........ That that was'nt a chimney....and the hardest part at that age was finding out that there was'nt a Father Xmas.....Sad! :'(
:D ;)
ok, did you miss father christmans arriving on the helicopter, ambulance, speed boat etc........
The helicopter was the one that made the biggest impression, I still have'nt had a ride in it yet......
>:(
BILLY SUMMERS AND DOC GREIG, AND A FEW OTHER ORANJEMUNDERS, WERE WALKING THE FISH RIVER CANYON. MYSELF AND ROY WENT UP IN THE PLANE TO SEND DOWN BEER AND WHISKY IN A LITTLE PARACHUTE WE MADE UP. FLYING TO THE FISH RIVER CANYON ROY SAID TAKE THE CONTROLS SON WHILE I LIGHT MY PIPE. HE TOOK THAT LONG TO LIGHT HIS PIPE - THERE WAS SWEAT ON MY BROW. I KEPT LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER IN CASE SOMEBODY OVERTOOK ME - THAT WAS THE LONGEST MINUTE OF MY LIFE!!!!!! IN THE END, BILLY AND DOC FELL OUT WITH US BECAUSE WE DROPPED THE BEER AND WHISKY TO THE WRONG PEOPLE - OOPS!!!
During my years of unemployment, Doc Greig invited me to go and Hike the canyon with him, kinda make up the numbers, when we got to canyon, to my horror I discovered that you could not do the Hike without having had a medical examination..... "No worry!," , explained Big Gavin, whipped out my medical certificate.... funny thing was I never remember taking that medical exam..... ;)
Mike ~ Was that the trip when Gavin or Jim (memory's fading) refused a ride in the chopper with us because of the embarrassment they would suffer finishing the hike in such a fashion, as opposed to walking into Ai Ais? One of them had suffered a twisted ankle or suchlike and had collapsed in the shade of a small kiosk a few kilometres upstream. (I think you had walked in ahead of them to seek assistance). We landed to render assistance but they had no intention of accepting a lift and, so, we granted them their wish and returned to the skies. This resulted in certain key members of your group sneaking their way into Ai Ais on the back of a farmer's bakkie which had been commandered for the occasion! Talk about saving face! You were definitely there and it was as hot as hell.
Pete, that was indeed the trip, Gavin was fine, but some overseas people(person) had sprained an ankle (or broken a leg), Gavin helped out and opted to stay with them and sent Wullie and myself out to phone you guys for help with the chopper.I think Dawn Jones was also there that weekend......
You guys made quite an impression with the tourists when you landed the squirrel next to the tennis courts, that I remember! Oh and the draught was ice cold..... ;D
Describing that as a landing was very kind of you, Mike! I thought we'd run out of fuel and were simply trying not to wrtite ourselves off! I wonder if any of those tourists realised how close they came to becoming Squirrel mascots!!
Thinking back, apart from the pilot there were two pax - myself and a guy from Nature Conservation. Needless to say that, after our spectacular touch-down, the Nature Conservation guy did a bunk (he was obviously shattered) and we had to do the rest of the sorties on our own (me and the pilot...try to think who it was...will have to check out my photos).
We were actually doing a canyon clean up as it was the end of the hiking season. I have never seen so much rubbish and filth generated by people who are, supposedly, environmentally conscious ~ which is why they walk the canyon.
I remember my dad wanted me to do the F/R/C I would have loved to have done it, I guess school and also my back but, no exscuse, I would have loved to have done it. I know Dr Gregs daughter, Julie and Nicole Latimer did it one year, boy i was so jeleous that I could not have done it. My dad always said that I would have been able to do it. Not sure about now though, the age is creeping up on me......
I visited Roy in England sometime in the late 70s or early 80s when he lived in Sheffield prior to his second stint in Omund,the twins were still very young cant guess thier age maybe 5or6 ,anyway I went flying with Roy from his flying club,so off we went buzzing around town let me take controls for a while. When we landed the instructer at the club house asked Roy if he had topped up the tank of the aircraft and he said it wasnt nessisary as there was half a tank in both tanks. The problem was they always showed half as the instrumentation was faulty so when checked we had landed on fumes.We both went for a stiff drink after that.
Quote from: bryan benton on August 25, 2007, 01:18:30 AM
WHO CAN REMEMBER ROY AND HIS PLANE,AT ORANJEMUND AIRPORT.MANY A SUNDAY ,YOU WOULD SEE HIM FLYING ABOVE ORANJEMUND ,HE WOULD BE THAT LOW YOU COULD WAVE TO HIM AS HE FLEW PAST SMOKING HIS PIPE,MISSING YOUR TV POLE AND YOUR HOUSE ROOF.AND FLYING UPSIDE DOWN...HOW AND WHERE DID THE PLANE COME FROM? WISH I HAD A TOY LIKE ROY.
Hi I do remember the plane, I have been on a few trips with Roy - Up the river, through the canyon and back very enjoyable,
Had a few trips with Kieth Ager, Cape Town and back and sight seeing arround O/mund
We went in to the canyon and dropped a few beer's with a parachute down to a group of O/mund hikers
good stuf
Alfred
Anyone have a picture of Roy and his plane?? Would like to see one.