For Everyone

For SABC Members

Flying Weekend
27, 28, & 29 September 2003
Serpentine Airfield

An e-mail from Blair Howe follows:

"Afternoon All, There is no need of any money for my part of the operation I grow the pigs here for our own consumption, bacon, ham, ding sausages etc. Sooo it's no hassle to bump one for a spit. I really would like a hand because all the labour I have here is paid. The hand I would need is on the day with the odds and sods that go with it. If every body bought something to go with a pig on a spit I will round up some sort of tables and we have plenty of hot water etc. I do have toilet facilities etc down at the hanger but it is so much easier up at the house and we are not short of room as you know. As for grogging we have two spare cottages sleeps ten plus and we nearly always have spare bunks up at the house. There is a spare Donga down at the hanger that anybody could roll a swag out in. We also have a pretty big garage that has a tiled floor if the weather gets a bit yukky.

The strips go East West about 900 mtrs and North South 570 mtrs. John Chesbrough with a Mooney and Bert Filippi with the Nord have landed here. The power lines that you see are all underground where it matters. The surface is compacted lime stone. We have landed one of my 337's on the cross strip so there is plenty of room. There are excavations on the East end but they are pretty obvious. If you must come in from the East I plan to touch down 50 mtrs up from where the road into the pit crosses the strip and you still have 700 mtrs to pull her up. Don't mind the trees they only look like they are joined at the top. Regards Blair Howe

The co-ords for my airstrip. they are 33.01.32S 115.41.99E. I live on the Eastern edge of a 35km long lake [Lake Preston] and I am about 10km up from the southern end of it."