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KR2 World Tour - August email

----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Hales
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 8:00 AM
Subject: KR2 in Sydney

G'Day people,
Finally some news from inside Australia! Yes, we are here! Only 2 years and 229 days behind our first original scheduled day of arrival, but on the 16th August we landed in Sydney in our KR2.

The whole journey has turned into a bit of an epic story, but with a very happy ending. We flew into Sydney in formation with an RV4 (piloted by Jon Johanson, a famous Australian pilot and record holder who has flown his aircraft round the world 3 times in different directions!) and a Rebel piloted by Rick Harper, another great Aussie gent and President of the chapter 1 group of the Sports Aircraft
Association of Australia.

We were followed by 4 chase helicopters of the Australian TV stations, which was fun as well and we were given another fantastic present by the Air Traffic Controllers as Sydney Int'l airport was closed to all traffic for a few moments, to let us fly above the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House (thank you again Jon!) before crossing their runways on our way in to Bankstown the General Aviation airport of Sydney.

Our KR2 is now the smallest aircraft to have flown from the UK to Australia. Needless to say that we are HAPPY, and very proud of our homebuilt aircraft... and have turned horribly bigheaded. Even Fredypig our mascot is showing off now since he was pictured on channel 4,7,9 and ABC news at 7 and 9 o'clock..

So we will stay a month or two here in Australia to try to get back to normal, before setting off again to New-Zealand (we are not quite sure yet about means of transport there...) and later onto the States.

Everything is still in a bit of a whirl at the moment but we will be in touch again later when we have a little more time.

Our best regards and thanks to all who help us reach this far and achieve what we have. There is still a lot of work still to do, and lots of you to thank personally but be assured we are very happy to be able to do it!

Thanks again and best regards,
Colin and Nadine
http://fly.to/worldtour