Up near Jever and Wilhelmshaven, Laboe (Going to visit the U-Boot Memorial too)
Marcel
sorry we won't make it to the Netherlands. They wanted 3K more for that flight.
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Up near Jever and Wilhelmshaven, Laboe (Going to visit the U-Boot Memorial too)
Marcel
sorry we won't make it to the Netherlands. They wanted 3K more for that flight.
Greg Boeser
2nd Lieutenant
Nice. I spent a summer in Nuernberg as an exchange student.
I used to live just 30 minutes from there for like 10 years. Would go there all the time. We'll be visiting some friends of ours from back then.
Okay, pitty.Up near Jever and Wilhelmshaven, Laboe (Going to visit the U-Boot Memorial too)
Since Delta stopped flying to Stuttgart the prices skyrocketed. I was looking forward to seeing sole of the Dutch WW2 sites with you.
Coordinated today with the local Commemorative Air Force squadron here to use their hangar for the presentation on WW2 I will be doing for my wife's class in March. Not only will I be putting on a presentation focusing on the causes of WW2 and able to see up close authentic uniforms and artifacts from WW2, but the kids will also get to see up close a B-25 and a TBM Avenger.
On top of it, it looks like I am going to become a member and volunteer my time to the museum. I am sure between being a hobby historian, a pilot (yes I know they will not let me fly the planes), and a licensed A&P mechanic I can dedicate some quality time to them.
On top of it, it looks like I am going to become a member and volunteer my time to the museum. I am sure between being a hobby historian, a pilot (yes I know they will not let me fly the planes), and a licensed A&P mechanic I can dedicate some quality time to them.
Viking1066
Chief Master Sergeant
Great thing to do. Wish I could meet all of you gentlemen. Maybe in heaven. 
Great thing to do. Wish I could meet all of you gentlemen. Maybe in heaven.
I am sure we don't have to wait until heaven.
A4K
Brigadier General
Hopeully not. Be nice to catch up with more members sometime.
special ed
2nd Lieutenant
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As a life member, I welcome you to the CAF!
Viking1066
Chief Master Sergeant
Yes, it would be nice before heaven. I am very grateful I found this forum. It's been informative and I have met many awesome gentlemen.
Yep hoping to buy you beer sometime my friend
mikewint
Captain
Mein Urgroßvater mütterlicherseits came from a Pferdehof near Oldenburg (Lower Saxony) and I still have distant relatives there. Visited them last in 1972. Just before the outbreak of WWI the Kaiser took the family's horses as the Oldenburg horse breed was highly prized by the German officer corps. The family farm was pretty much kaputt gegangen. As a younger son there was nothing for him. Relatives who were already in America (Chicago) sponsored him to emigrate to come to the USA. He was almost immediately hired by the CFD to care for their horses
A4K
Brigadier General
Back at ya mate, we will catch up some stage!
cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
My Gibson Girl kite showed up yesterday, but I had to wait til today to get it. No one here at the house heard the mailman knock, and the package required a signature. I'm going to see about duplicating it and using the replica for getting on air during Field Day this next year. 
Vic Balshaw
Major General
I used to have one of those kite's as a kid, my dad was in the RAF and acquired it by some means, this was the early 1950s. He was away overseas and we were housed on an RAF station pending joining him. I pulled the kite out one day a flew it in the field behind our house. While I had it drifting nicely on the wind I noticed a Vampire was circling around the kite and then a huge Shackleton joined in. It was quite thrilling for me until I saw the Station Warrant Office beetling toward me on his bicycle, yelling at me to pull the kite down. Luckily he was also our next door neighbour and explained to me and my now flustered mum that these kites when seen flying usually meant a pilot had crashed and was in distress and were still used by the RAF at that time. Needless to say the kite never saw the light of day again.
Greg Boeser
2nd Lieutenant
My niece and her boyfriend are finally engaged. 
