For my birthday a while ago – Mrs A and my family presented me with a pleasure flight around the Ards Peninsula - folks from overseas may not be aware, but Newtownards has its own Private Airport.
We were very fortunate with the day we picked – it was clear, cold, dry, sunny and most importantly for a small aeroplane no wind!
An added bonus for me was that the pilot who took us up on the day was an old school class friend of mine Mark McMeekin – from the famous ‘milkmen family’ from Ards.
Mark took controls for the takeoff and landing - lucky old me, I took the controls of the plane for the rest of the flight – fantastic experience!
Here are a few snaps – I will put them on 2 blog posts.
Enjoy
Poised for take-off
Just after lift-off - view over Movilla end of Newtownards
Movilla flying towards Donaghaee/Bangor - Irish Sea/Belfast Lough in the distance
Peninsula - flying around Carrowdore - Mourne Mountains in the distance
Carrowdore looking towards - Barr's Bay - Ards Sailing Club
Flying over my house - its in there somewhere
Excited ready for take-off - my pal and best man from my wedding Peter Crawley!
HMA
No comments:
Post a Comment