The Flight of the Saltire

**cessna152towser** · 4th December 10, 04:08 AM

Excellent pics.
Perhaps the first pic of Mr. and Mrs. Camera in front of the camera!!
Its great to see the Saltire arrived safe and well in Albuquerque, though unfortunate that she arrived behind schedule and missed the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Maybe she'll return to Albuquerque in time for next year's event.

Postings started under show us your pic's, perhaps a Mod could move here and the journey can continue.

Your wish is my command, threads now merged.

**Downunder Kilt** · 4th December 10, 02:06 PM

Great to see the wee airship back in action, thanks for the great pics and congratulations to the newlyweds.

**BroosterB1** · 4th December 10, 07:02 PM

It was a dark night late into the Autumn, the wind was whistling through the trees and the frost was just beginning to settle on the window panes, the crew was invited to a party, a dance if you will, but oh the horrors that awaited. It was a mind bending trip to the edge of sanity, wait was that Captain Kirk?

The Airship settles in for a night not to be forgotten.....

Who should they meet? John Robin and the Ice Queen from the Dawn Trader!

Of course the rouge was Kilted!

Hold on Batman is that Clark Kent and Lana Lang?

Or just another computer nebbish looking over the fine lines of the airship?

Toil and trouble looks like the airship has found a circle of Witchy Poo's...Watch out I hear the young ones are adorable.......

Scotty I need more Power! But I'a 'iven her all she's got ......

Not sure which video game these guy crawled out of...any ideas?

Oh and this guy came by...trolling for missing elves

**BroosterB1** · 4th December 10, 07:45 PM

It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike

You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!

But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time

Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade

There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)

That this is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night

This was part of a crew of folks who practiced for over 9 weeks to put on Michael Jackson's Thriller. The day of our Holloween dance the participated in a nation wide thriller dance and also filled a local city park with zombies. Acording to the local news that city park event broke the worlds record for most sycronized zombies at the same time! And the Saltaire was there!

Special thanks to our head Zombie and Dance master Elizabeth

**Woot22** · 3rd December 10, 10:30 PM

Sweet, great to see it again.

**Riverkilt** · 3rd December 10, 10:45 PM

Classic pic!

More, more!

**Riverkilt** · 4th December 10, 11:45 PM

Ahhh, kilted on the rezlands.

Great AA campout on the Hopi at Five Houses near Polacca, AZ on the second weekend of Sept. Keep it in mind.

**BroosterB1** · 6th December 10, 10:16 AM

Some good news this morning; the bodies of Richard Abruzzo and his co-pilot Carol Rymer Davis were found this week end. The Abruzzo family will escort Richard back to be interred next to his father who also passed in an aircraft accident.

The Saltaire will soon be off on further adventures. God Bless her flight of friendship.

**Panache** · 10th December 10, 03:21 PM

To the Ladies and Gentlemen of XMTS,

Today the XMTSAS Saltire came home.

It is with mixed feelings that I opened the package that held her. So many miles she has travelled, so many wonderful places and people she has seen. It seems so long ago that I wrote the original story that introduced her to our forum and build this small representation for Big Mikey to take with him along his trip back to Canada.

So many changes since then.

One thing I am very glad is that she managed to hold true to her mission and has well indeed "Travelled in Friendship" all over the globe.

Perhaps a discussion should take place if she should continue on, or that maybe some new symbol in keeping with the new XMTS take her place. I suspect that she would find a good home in Storrington with a certain kilted gentleman I know.

But this is a talk for another day. Now I will read her log book and smile at all the special people that she has met along her flight.

I doff my plumed hat to you all

Sincerely

Jamie

**Zardoz** · 14th December 10, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

Perhaps a discussion should take place if she should continue on, or that maybe some new symbol in keeping with the new XMTS take her place.

I enjoyed seeing our airship's travels here, and was so proud to have hosted her in Texas, but I'll agree with Jamie on this.
Perhaps it was fitting that the wee Saltire is a dirigible, an anachronistic symbol of things past. As he observes, things are different now, perhaps it's time for a new symbol.

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