Vimy departure

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3331

Well, according to the City of Clifden website, they've taken off as planned and are on their way.

Good luck to them, here's hoping for a safe arrival tomorrow evening UK time.

Still nothing on either the Vimy website or National Geographic one. It looks as though the much-talked-about live link on the NG website has failed to appear.

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3331

The Vimy has just arrived, landing safely on Clifden golf course as planned.

A magnificent achievement, and a very well done to Mark Rebholz and Steve Fossett, as well as everyone else involved in this ambitious project.

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:50 am

Fantastic!!!! I had the great fortune to see them depart from Gatineau to Quebec City. It was such a magical moment, and one I never thought I'd ever get to witness. The Orenda engines sounded like giant lawn mowers though, which I thought was a little amusing. I wonder what the original engines were like? Probably a lot noisier, and certainly less reliable.

From what I hear, the Vimy is now destined for a museum... I wonder which one? The National Aviation Museum in Ottawa seems like a perfect place for it, considering the connection to Canada from this latest trip. I imagine it'll probably go to somewhere in the States though, which is only fair, since the people who built, flew and paid for her are American. Fantastic job guys... thanks so much for taking the effort and the risk to commemorate such a series of remarkable feats!

Cheers,
Richard

C170BDan · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:25 pm

Having followed the Vimy project for awhile... Congrats to the team for achieving the Triple Crown! Three amazing flights to re-create aviation history!

I hope we see more famous flights re-created by more modern day adventurers!

J-F St-Pierre · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:29 pm

Quote:

From what I hear, the Vimy is now destined for a museum... I wonder which one? The National Aviation Museum in Ottawa seems like a perfect place for it, considering the connection to Canada from this latest trip.

The interesting thing about this comment is Ottawa museum has the only surviving twin-engine German First World War aircraft: http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/coll ... /AEG.shtml An airplane about the same size of the Vimy. Face to face, it can be a nice display.

About the Vimy, I saw it closely at Quebec city airport and I can say it's an impressive airplane.

Pat M · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:46 pm

and this from CNN.....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/ ... index.html

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