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Slick's (aka Sandi's) trip to Africa |
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Sharing our adventures in the Kingdom |
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Flying with AIM-air |
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Slick hitched a few rides aboard various planes operated by AIM-AIR to various places around Africa. Click on the links above to see the other locations that may be of interest to you. |
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The Cessna Caravan gets a new engine in AIM-AIR’s Nairobi hangar |
The planes, airfields & views |
Date: 06/15/09 |
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To contact us: |
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Phone: 803-983-8874 (Slick) Phone: 803-983-8889 (Donna) E-mail: dlkohout@yahoo.com E-mail: sandidouglass@yahoo.com |
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The Cessna 206 has all the normal stuff plus an HF radio |
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The DC3, retrofit with turbine engines, comes in for a nocturnal landing |
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Final approach into Lokichokio (Loki for short) - tower-controlled field with a UN compound among the buildings on right |
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Getting ready for take-off in the DC3 (at least I think it’s take-off—something’s wrong with this picture if it’s landing!) |
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The Cessna Caravan—lots of “round gauges” - just what we Douglasses like! (Round gauges are much more trustworthy :) |
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The Cessna 206 with its travel pod hanging out in the hangar |
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The colors of Africa: green (right) & brown (above). See the airstrip cut into the brown earth? |
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Final approach to the “practice airstrip” |
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This isn’t your normal “soft field” - first step for take-off is to wait until the goat herder (right side, near the horizon) gets his goats off the runway |
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Final approach to Nairobi in the 206 |
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AIM-AIR’s hangar in Nairobi (light blue striped roof) |
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Click on the “Nairobi” link below to see pictures from in and around Nairobi. To view all our Africa photos on Fickr, click on “more Africa picts”. |
