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Aero Club Flying Stories
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Narromine Fly Away
March 25, 2012
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On Sunday 25th March, Bathurst Aero Club members visit Narromine.
12 Participants in 6 aircraft joined the safari...
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Lake Eyre Revisited
April 30, 2011
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With the excellent specials by Paul Lockyer, on ABC Television, covering
the filling of Lake Eyre over the past 2 years and our visit there with
Outback Spirit in 2009, it was inevitable that the lure of the Lake would
beckon us to return, this time in our own aircraft....
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Moree Fly Away...
April 30, 2011
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11 BAC members in 5 aircraft left Bathurst around 0900 on Saturday
under low Stratus cloud enroute to Moree via Mudgee and Narrabri. The
skies cleared about 80 NM out and from there we enjoyed blue skies and
stable air and a tailwind putting us all into Moree by 1115.
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Iandra Castle Club Fly-In...
January 25, 2009
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Bathurst Aero Club launched into 2009 with our first fly away to ‘The Iandra Castle’, a large,
historic and extremely interesting property southwest of Cowra....
The Iandra property has an interesting history being first established by Mr George Greene in 1878
and extending to 32000 acres. It was the location of the first commercial plantings of William Farrer’s
famous ‘Federation’ wheat...
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Toby Robb's trip to Orbost, Bairnsdale, Moruya...
February 24 - February 27, 2008
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....I had always wanted to make a trip south to visit my family. For anyone unfamiliar with the location of Orbost....
...The club aircraft really has an extraordinary range, and it would only require one refuelling along the way to get there. As luck would have it, Merimbula aerodrome is well placed in the middle of the journey...
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Errol Chopping's Visit to Jervis Bay...
February 19 - February 22, 2005
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...With the weather darkening and overcast stratus at 4500 ft we secured the aircraft and hopped on our minibus. It was obvious as the day progressed in Batemans Bay that we were in for some strange weather....
...Every fifteen minutes a transport aircraft landed and spilled out another twenty or so servicemen who then boarded a light aircraft and were jumping out overhead and parachuting down to onto the field...
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