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Stearman Formation Flying May 08, 2006

Aircraft
Call-Sign
Engine Pilot
Custom Stearman 'Rag Doll'
Anchor
300 HP Bill Austin
Custom Stearman 'Tillie'
Linus
450 HP Tom Lambrick
Navy Stearman '569'
Travis
225 HP John Hodgson
Navy Stearman '173'
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220 HP Andreas Hotea
All pictures taken by Mark Hodgson
Travis and Andreas North of Hollister (airport in background)
Andreas joining up on Anchor
Turning left in Formation
Anchor, Andreas and Linus 'In-Trail'
#3 (Linus) Crossing under Lead (Anchor) and #2 (Andreas)
Echelon Left Formation
Echelon Left Formation
Anchor breaking off
Andreas breaking off
Andreas back in Formation - Linus joining up
Linus (#3) crossing under Andreas (#2)
Andreas almost done with re-joining

(flying a bit low) -

Frazier Lake in the background

Anchor breaking off again - West of Frazier Lake
Anchor - flying lead - as usual.
Anchor South of Gilroy
Travis hanging low after a 'bomb-burst'
Both Travis and Linus re-joining with Anchor after a 'bomb-burst'
Travis and Andreas from #3's point of view
Andreas re-joining with Anchor
Andreas re-joining with Anchor - almost there
Andreas re-joining with Anchor - need to turn more

Linus Crossing under Anchor (as #3 Linus has to cross under Lead AND #2 - he is quite far away from #1)

Linus - in the mirror
Linus - watching Lead


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