Hi there again.
Sorry to write twice, I don't think I wrote in time to get included in
yesterday or today's list.
but I just wanted to make entirely clear... I'm the only person at fault. Me
and my demons.
The EAA organisers and staff at Oshkosh did ... NOT ... know I was coming.
It was turning into a battle and a race against time.
With out getting spiritual here, but I'm not the luckiest guy on the planet. I
knew, as soon as I told the EAA I was on my way to Oshkosh, it would have
instantly doomed my journey to complete failure. Heck I only just made it as it
was.
I had been stuck in Iceland 3 weeks with weather, delayed with a broken oil
cooler in Greenland. Blown off my feet in Canada, I sincerely thought with just
3 days to go before the END if the show and being thousands of miles away, I
was glad I hadn't told the EAA, because I would have looked foolish as there
was no way the weather was going to sort itself out and I wouldn't cook the
engine trying to limp the aircraft there without an oil cooler.
But...
Anyway, top result, EAA looked after me amazingly while I was there. Kermit
Meeks hangar, to do the work on renewing the oil cooler.
So, lets just make the best of thing.
The KR2 doesn't have the best reputation, well not in my country. I'm not
travelling to try to change this or travelling for 'World Piece' or to 'Save
the whale', the Kr2 I built when I was younger and I'm travelling in it just
because I am. But in travelling with my Kr2, people see it, and nothing needs
to be said. I've overheard people say, "Can't be all that bad if he flew all
that way!" Job done... Don't need to pressure or push or persuade. Seeing is
believing.
So, I'm writing an article for our association back home, I'll send a copy to
the EAA, I hope they might consider publishing it. its entertaining, that's all
you can hope to do, get someone to read something positive about Kr2's or grass
routes aircraft that's slightly different. Heck some of the things that
happened that I've talked to people about, have them falling over and telling
me I'm making it up... you get people to read and think, I enjoyed that, I'll
read another. Again, job done...
So, all smiles people, and as you do like to say... "Have a good day!"
Regards Colin.
