The Travels of the Agnew Family

Two years ago when the competition was last held at the Saugeen airport, it was wrapped up in a day. This year weather held up the first day for a couple of hours so a second day of flying was required. The ceiling (clouds) was too low preventing the judges from seeing the maneuvers, so flying was suspended till the clouds left.


Victor's friend Jeff was competing for the first time this year in his colourful Pitts.


When you glance around the tarmac you'll see people acting a little weird. It's only the pilots walking through their routines before they fly.


Jeff's plane is very colourful and a yellow plane is easily seen in the sky, but I just loved the paint job on this plane.


landing


There was a lot of pointing going on. The competitors fly at a higher altitude than a lot of the planes you see during an air show. So a helpful point helped to locate the planes when they were in the air.

Ed put a couple of composite photos together to give you a better idea of a couple of the maneuvers we saw.






I was watching over Ed's camera with the big lens on so I snapped a few photos including this one of Ed.



A couple of the winners of the competition. It's nice to see women competing.