Hey Russ,

 Here is that Finnish motor glider I was talking about.
 Back in those days one was not allowed to rent
 an airplane in Finland  with out a guard pilot along in case
 one was thinking of flying into Russia and picking
 up friends and relatives.

 Paul Lamar

Hi Paul and Russ,

Greetings from Finland! You put quite a surprise:  "World is small", but
those photographs are just "next door", from my home airfield, which is
called Naarajärvi. That name was used 70 years ago, when the airfield was
built soon after the Winter War 1940. The airfield was used in the beginning
of the "Continuation War" (WW II) in 1941, when Morane fighters and later on
Blenheim bombers took off from this place. Now it is officially Pieksamaki
(EFPK), but most pilots here use still the original name Naarajarvi. Runway
is now asphalt, 900 m long and it is good for hobby pilots, especially for
ultralights.

The motorglider itself is Scheibe SF 25C FALKE. They are still used by some
aviation clubs, when training motorglider pilots.  It was owned by
Keski-Suomen ilmailijat (1981-1986), and later on it went to Teisko and now
it is in Alajarvi. So your photographs are from 80's? I think some people
here know the other pilot, I was not there that time...

Welcome again to visit us again!

Best Regards,

Heikki

Hey thanks for the info. Yes it was in the early 80's.

My wife worked for TWA and UAL as a mechanic so we took
full advantage of near free flights around the world. Been
to 30 countries so far. We will be going to Aero again
this year and your fellow countryman Petri did some movie
making for us at Aero last year. Perhaps you and Petri can
come down to Aero in the same car next year and save some
German gas money :)

Paul Lamar