Prelude

Kill number 1: Bob "Mouse" Shaw's nose (playing Crud)
Kill number 2: Chain's arm (armwrestling)
Kill number 3: joystick (flying)
Kill number 4 and 5: who will they be and when?

Videos from the convention:

• Mosquito Meeting 2004 video - MPEG - size 150 MB. Full lenght (15 minutes) videoshow from the convention. Video and editing by Modo.
• Mosquito Meeting 2004 video - WMV - size 50 MB. Full lenght (15 minutes) videoshow from the convention. Video and editing by Modo.
• Mosquito Meeting 2004 minivideo - MPEG - size 50 MB. Short video collection recorded with toy camera by Grendel.
• Mosquito Meeting 2004 minivideo - WMV - size 3 MB. Short video collection recorded with toy camera by Grendel.

links here

Day 1

Start it up, someone could say. DJ Cosmo gave a gig, too.

Our father and son combination: Olli and Maumau, both from the WarBirds JG3 squadron.

Day 2

All right. OK has finally lost it... Battle damage. A 7.5 mm machine gun bullet struck OK's cockpit side plane penetrating it just a few cm away from the pilot. Close one!

Some of us visited the ship MS Alpo, the tug that travelled all the way from Oulu to the Normandy invansion 60 years celebration. MS Alpo was built in New York 1943 and participated in the actual invasion.

After that was the Finnish Virtual Pilots Finland annual meeting, convention went on and some of us went flying for real.

Convention place from air.

Stuka pilot Penttiku (right) and his gunner Neito (left). Deadly combination.

Of course there was some RC flying, with Cosmo and Grendel bringing their RC planes to the convention. Planes flew both in day and in the bright night skies on the beach. Heroes of the day were Colt, Cougar and especially Mangrove, who helped to rescue Grendel's plane from a tree related distress.

Day 3

We were also honored by the visit of two local WW2 Air Force veterans, Aarne Vuopohja (with beard) and Tapani Elo (no beard nor hair).

Day 4

And finally in the hours of Sunday it was time to pack our stuff and begin the long journey back home.

Cheers to the three LLv 34 pilots who travelled all the way from Denmark to the Mosquito Meeting!