South Island Flight Plan

First Decal

Yes subtle, but our first decal from Z who is supporting the nationwide initiative of Child Flight

$5000 Cheque Handover

CTC Aviation of Hamilton, New Zealand handed over $5000 in sponsorship.  Photo below shows Murray Barker (Trustee/Pilot of Child Flight), Rob Clarke (CEO, UK of CTC), Chris Jordan (Trustee/Pilot of Child Flight) and Peter Stockwell (COO, CTC Hamilton)

49er My Favourite Yacht

Suva Skyline

Take away the pool and view the mountains in the background.  A view my Father would know as he was born here and stayed until he was 17.

Denarau, Fiji

Fiji Bitter and 3 tasters, nice way to start our Fiji sojourn.  10 April arrived Denarau, departed 12th for Suva and stayed until the 17th.  Back to Nadi by rental car and another two days at the Sofitel. No luck in Suva trying to locate Dad's birth certificate even though 21 November 1916 was his birth date. Records were not in sequential order which meant searching ALL the records.  Too time consuming, but still spent over 3 hours looking. 

Slowly Coming of Age

Child Flight Charitable Trust's first merchandise........

Wow We Did It!!

Child Flight Charitable Trust got its 100th special passenger in the Arrow today and also achieved its 50th flight.  The photo below shows the Piper Arrow over the Te Uku Windfarm just East of Raglan.  The celebrated passenger was on board.  The picture was taken from the Cirrus SR20 which was flying in formation.

How The Latest Honda Should Look!!

Whakatane News

Mom & Iggy

First solids for Iggy, man, whatever he was on before surely worked!!  Monty seems to be into planets judging from the chart behind Lucy.  Must be still cold, you guys are warmly dressed....

JORDI & CAROLYN

Celebrating the lives of two very special people.  Although fuzzy this was Carolyn's favourite picture of her and Mom.

Chloe At The Hamilton Zoo

Sarah brought Chloe down to Hamilton today and we visited the Zoo.  A fantastic opportunity to view the Giraffe up close while it was feeding.  

Child Flight Track Today

Two flights today in honour of Jordie (10 years today since she passed away).  Hope you are proud Mom and Carolyn, these flights honour two beautiful people no longer with us.

St Kilda Pier Melbourne

Spent 4 glorious nights in Melbourne.  Beautiful city.............

Jonny

We flew Jonny on the 24th Jan, our 35th flight for Child Flight.  Jonny had an operation which has made it difficult for him to walk.  

Inaugural Child Flight Girl

Amelia on the left with her sister Sinead on the flight today out of Te Kowhai airfield.  Amelia was our first Child Flight Kid 4 years ago when we were experimenting with different formats for the trust.  Amelia is recovering from leukemia and we are all wishing her a very bright future....

Brothers & Sisters

Carolyn, Chris, Peggy & Pete at the Auckland grave which commemorates Nana Olding, Mom & Dad.  This photo was taken approximately 8/9 years ago.  We were there with Mom's urn and each one of us spread some ashes into a heart shaped hole in front of the headstone which had been refurbished.  I spread the rest of Mom's ashes in two other places, 2nd Ave in Tauranga where Nana & Grandpa lived and on the 11th tee on Waitangi Golf Course where Mom used to play.

Recovered Photo

Found on Bub's Facebook page which still exists.  Her first attempt, she says, at Photoshop.  She went on to say "I think I may have to go back to the manual and read it properly"!!

Sky TV

This photo was posted by Liam's mother onto Child Flight's Facebook page.  I understand that Sky TV played an interview with Jesse Ryder with action clips of the aircraft and brief description of what the Trust was all about.  This clip was played just before the one day game in Hamilton last Wednesday.  Pity the Black Caps performed so badly!!!

New Blog

First entry in the new Blog entitled JORDO.  I have decided to abandon flyme-jordo as it is not as private as I would like.  The site will remain public but because it is new less people are involved.  I am getting a pdf version of flyme-jordo which I will send to family.  It dates back to 2008.