Thursday, May 08, 2008

Back in the nick of time.










Video 1 of the take off from Goose Bay airport, 8th may, 08.
Not much military activity anymore. The large blue hangers are empty; they were built by the Germans for low level flying. Behind them are empty hangers formerly used by the British. All in all the entire base has a desolate feel about it.
Any way, most of the first video is of the taxiing, just after the trucks and yellow line you hear the Twin Otter increase power and lift off. You can see the "Canadian Side" and hangers that house chopper company's now.
Just as it started to bank I stopped filming. The still is to show we were still in the air, it shows the bottom end of Terrington Basin with Lake Melville in background.

Video 2 is after about 70 minutes flying time, mostly above the clouds. We dropped down just south of Nain and came in directly at the airstrip from that direction.

Video 3 shows the approach; we were below many of the hills. The vertical face is Mount Sophie that overlooks the town.
Just after that I ran out of card space, we got down safe other wise you would not be reading this post.

Back in the nick of time too, it’s some sort of freezing rain/snow mix out there this morning.



1 comment:

Dogbait said...

No mistaking that awesome take-off sound from the Twin Otter.