30/06: June - bit 4
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
The COPA Cabana -- the name given to this years Canadian Owners and Pilots Association annual meeting was held from June 22 to June 24. Ed spent a couple of days prior to the event helping to clean up and organize Victor's hanger as it was to house a number of vendor stands. Somehow the during the week leading up to the event, Ed became the official photographer. His actual job was to help park airplanes. Along with Anne and a woman from COPA I manned the registration desk. When those duties were done, I headed outside to help in the car park area.
Anyone who knows Ed will guess that he took a lot of photos --- don't know if anyone would guess that he took over 2,000 photos over the three days. I was very happy when he decided to review the photos, clean up around 500 of them and create a slide show. My only job was to choose a few for this blog and that was hard work because there were so many good photos. Hope you enjoy the ones I choose.
Hard at work at the registration desk.
Victor's hanger never looked so good.
An antique car club displayed some of their vehicles.
Over two hundred planes flew in to enjoy the event.
As this airport is small and the only staff is a airport manager, volunteers did all of the jobs including guiding planes in and parking them.
Even a DC-3 came to the show. For $85 you could get a ride on the plane.
The Harvards from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.
Victor was in charge of plane parking ... here he is in action.
A local pipe band came and piped a few songs.
A "flying demonstration" was held. The Harvards were the first to fly.
Until the warplanes arrived, no one was sure they were coming. The gave a nice demonstration then expectantly landed.
Pete McLeod, from London Ontario, is a Red Bull Racer and aerobatic pilot. He gave us a wonderful show.
I especially liked it when he flew upside down over the runway.
After the flying demonstration was done the crowd flocked onto the tarmac to see the warplanes.
Ed managed to get a quick circuit in the flying school plane to take a few photos of the airport.
Victor's beautiful Navion was parked in the big hanger.
So were a couple of vintage cars and a float plane. They were to be the backdrop for the banquet.
Around 250 people attended the banquet.
At the end of dinner an announcement was made, asking people to help clean up the hanger as the warplanes were waiting to come in for the night. Each warplane is insured for more than a million dollars so everyone agreed they should be brought in for the night.
Sunday morning the warplanes were getting ready to head for Ottawa.
Everyone, including Zaph were watching the planes leave Sunday morning.
The "committee" did a fantastic job pulling this event together. Even though we were working, Ed and I had a great time and think all of the visitors did as well.
Anyone who knows Ed will guess that he took a lot of photos --- don't know if anyone would guess that he took over 2,000 photos over the three days. I was very happy when he decided to review the photos, clean up around 500 of them and create a slide show. My only job was to choose a few for this blog and that was hard work because there were so many good photos. Hope you enjoy the ones I choose.
Hard at work at the registration desk.
Victor's hanger never looked so good.
An antique car club displayed some of their vehicles.
Over two hundred planes flew in to enjoy the event.
As this airport is small and the only staff is a airport manager, volunteers did all of the jobs including guiding planes in and parking them.
Even a DC-3 came to the show. For $85 you could get a ride on the plane.
The Harvards from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.
Victor was in charge of plane parking ... here he is in action.
A local pipe band came and piped a few songs.
A "flying demonstration" was held. The Harvards were the first to fly.
Until the warplanes arrived, no one was sure they were coming. The gave a nice demonstration then expectantly landed.
Pete McLeod, from London Ontario, is a Red Bull Racer and aerobatic pilot. He gave us a wonderful show.
I especially liked it when he flew upside down over the runway.
After the flying demonstration was done the crowd flocked onto the tarmac to see the warplanes.
Ed managed to get a quick circuit in the flying school plane to take a few photos of the airport.
Victor's beautiful Navion was parked in the big hanger.
So were a couple of vintage cars and a float plane. They were to be the backdrop for the banquet.
Around 250 people attended the banquet.
At the end of dinner an announcement was made, asking people to help clean up the hanger as the warplanes were waiting to come in for the night. Each warplane is insured for more than a million dollars so everyone agreed they should be brought in for the night.
Sunday morning the warplanes were getting ready to head for Ottawa.
Everyone, including Zaph were watching the planes leave Sunday morning.
The "committee" did a fantastic job pulling this event together. Even though we were working, Ed and I had a great time and think all of the visitors did as well.