I was going through some old slides to scan into digital, and came across this photo of VH-ULA, a Stits Flut-R-Bug, According to the link below, "This machine is credited with starting post war amateur-built aviation in Australia." I thought this might be of interest, or even trigger a few memories. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austmz/VH-ULA.html
Hi Michael, Eddie Coates doesn't happen to be a relative, does he? He emigrated to the US around the end of the 50's and is now living in Raleigh, North Carolina. I contacted him by email yesterday.
geez mate your pretty quick ,,was having a look through your pics and you've got the eurofox 7772 pics already,,,it hasn't been here that long,,I've been putting a few hours on it ,have you flown it at all yet, it's a real treat!
Hi Metalman, Unfortunately I haven't flown anything for 25 years. Doubt I'd pass the physical for a GA ticket again, and although I drive a car, I don't think there are many RA aircraft that could carry an instructor and my 145kg frame off the ground (unless it only had a cup of fuel in it). And the age pension kinda puts flying out of my range. I will just fly my camera - at least it's paid for. As for the Eurofox, right place right time, I guess.
Great you had those photo's to post up of the Flur-R-Bug. At one stage both resided at Casey airfield and I have flown both of them. I cannot recall which way around it was but one was owned by Sanda Veenstra and the other by Steve Chapman. They were fun to fly but mind numbingly noisey, no-one wore headsets in those days. My Luton Minor was VH-ULL.
I did a bit of flying in the other SA-6B - VH-ULB in 1972 when it was owned by Bill M. Another friend, Geoff owned ULA for many years.
