This was an amazing event, organised by the Swedish EAA (light aircraft assosiation). It used to be held at the now closed Stockholm Barkaby airfield, and has been a roaming event for the last 3 years. Eslöv town was celebrating 100 years (of something), so the fly in was held there, with an airshow on the sunday for the people of the town.
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| Plane registration: SE for Sweden, X for experimental (home built and rare planes that are no longer factory supported). |
We arrived on Friday night and parked next to the adventurous aerial photographers Dieter and Marie Betz. Dieter lived in Alaska for 8 years with the bears and has written several childrens books about them (also several other books, I just haven't yet checked alibris to see what is available). He has a beautifully restored Piper Cub and a tent that is a perfect colour tone match to his paint scheme.
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| Dieter & Marie |
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| The charming Carsten, from Anholt (tiny Danish island) |
Friday and Saturday night the air club had organised bbqs for dinner. The had about 10 half oil drums with coals and a grill over the top. You queued to bring your dinne ticket to the counter, got given a very large amount of meat, which you then grilled yourself. This was a great way of doing a dinner, as you naturally ended up chatting to the other people.
The airshow on Sunday was great, my favourites were the glider aerobatics (like gymnastics) and the army Saab Gryppen, an amazingly powerful jet. I'm not sure how you're meant to be stealthy in a plane like that... We didn't take many photos as we were getting information overload and having trouble focussing on one thing at once :-)
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| Old American navy Boeing Stearmen (the one at the back is marine), I like this photo, as it shows how low they are flying |
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