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

Hi,

Yes, my countryman Petri was very helpful last winter, when we arranged the
annual "Winter seminar" of Finnish Experimental pilots. In the seminar, we
had ultralight-,  motorglider- and motorpilots, too . One of the main
topics
in the seminar was Wankel engines in aircrafts. Petri had an excellent one
hour presentation. (You may have it translated into English?).

We also had brochures from Mistral, Austro and even a real "opened"
AIXRO-model from Mr. Woelfle. I think after that seminar Finnish
experimental pilots know much more real facts about Wankels, even if very
few still think it as a realistic alternative  for their planes.

And yes, we have now paid airtickets and booked accommodation for AERO 2011
in Friedrichschafen. It was cheaper and faster alternative than driving
from
Finland. Looking forward seeing You and the other Wankel-people there.

Regards,

Heikki

Yes Petri did a wonderful job but it is a 4 meg pdf in english.
I'll upload it to the the web site so people can download
it using ftp.

Paul Lamar

Hello Paul & Heikki,

Having a flu, so I'm a bit slow-mo :)
I look forward to meet you in AERO, It's just wonderful place to visit.
Will check the flights and stuff soon, will let you know.

Cheers,
Petri