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Flying at dusk in an L-17 Navion, on the Downwind Leg at Chilliwack Airport (CYCW), with a beautiful sunset over the Fraser Valley.

Navion L-17A departing Runway 07 after the rains have passed at Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. October, 2021

Fast drum solo demonstrations by professional drummer Gary Barratt.

Professional drummer Gary Barratt demonstrates his finesse, expertise and precision in the art of drumming.

A Fraser Blues FormationTeam pilot flies a steep approach and landing in his L-17 Navion over obstacles at Rowena's narrow, gravel airstrip located on Sandpiper Golf Course. The golf course and Rowena's restaurant is approximately 49 nautical miles east of Vancouver (as the crow flies) and six miles north of the town of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. Whether you are a pilot, a golfer, or neither of those, Rowena's is an idyllic place to visit, surrounded by beautiful mountainous scenery, the restaurant is cozy and has a terrific and affordable menu, There is also bed and breakfast style accommodations as well as cabins on the property.

RV-7A flying a steep, side-slipping approach to a smooth landing on Runway 07 at Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

Enjoy some high-speed Cloud skimming as viewed from the cockpit of a Boeing 777-300ER.

Fraser Blues formation team practicing a double head-on pass during a practice for the airshow season.

A night approach and landing in a vintage L-17 Navion, to runway 07 at Chilliwack Airport, British Columbia, Canada.

Fraser Blues formation team flying in Four-plane Box Formation, as viewed from "Blue Four" in the line astern position. This short clip was taken on 11 November 2020; Remembrance Day in Canada (Veterans Day in the USA). The team was enroute to perform flyover for Remembrance Day ceremonies of several cenotaphs in The Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The Fraser River can be seen below.

A glorious sunset viewed from the cockpit of a Boeing-777 flying between cloud layers.

I took my grandson up for a flight and he says: "Grandad, roll the the aeroplane". So I roll the aeroplane and he loves it and laughs like a child. Then he says: "Grandad, do another one". Building memories!

Fraser Blues 4-plane formation team, flying in "Box" formation approach Langley Regional Airport following in just prior to splitting up for landing.

The Fraser Blues formation team, flying vintage L-17 Navion aircraft perform a 4-plane Missing Man Formation during funeral ceremonies of a Canadian military veteran. This particular flypast was flown approaching the ceremony site in a "Finger Right" formation: In Finger Right the aircraft are positioned basically like the fingers of one's right hand. At the point of the pull-up, the third aircraft in the equivalent position of the ring finger, pulls abruptly up toward the heavens then turns westward toward the sunset. The remaining three aircraft maintain heading, symbolizing that life must go on for the rest of us but without our "departed angel", symbolized by the empty space where the pull-up aircraft was.

Bunting an aircraft to achieve a few seconds of weightlessness tickles one's tummy quite a lot. My six year old grandson laughs heartily as a notebook floats by.

A glorious sunrise over the eastern Atlantic Ocean as we skim across an undercast layer of clouds in a Boeing 777 inbound to London, Heathrow from Toronto, Canada.

A flypast by the Hope Slide, approximately 80 mes east of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Hope Slide was the second largest landslide to occur in Canada. It happened in the morning hours of January 9, 1965 in the Nicolum Valley in the Cascade Mountains near Hope, British Columbia. Four people were trapped and killed on Highway #3 in the valley below. Two bodies were recovered but the other two remain entombed under the rocks. The volume of rock involved in the landslide has been estimated at 47 million cubic metres. The slide displaced the ice and mud in Outram Lake below with such incredible force that it threw it against the opposite side of the valley, wiping all vegetation and trees down to the bare rock, then splashed back up the original, now bare, slope before settling.

These friendly pets living up in the British Columbia mountains drool while waiting patiently for the signal to eat. Some dogs will snap or growl if someone attempts to take their food from them but not these dogs. They just wait until they get the "okay". Bon appetit!