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Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UTC

Postby Volador » Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:05 pm

Some of you may be aware we lost a member of our FG community Keith Hadden recently. I flew with Keith and others on Keith's Saturday evening (UTC) FG World Tour. Keith loved to fly the 737 and the Cessna caravan (and crash both occasionally!) and was keen to learn from others and practice, we were working our way across the globe. It was nice to hear his friendly chat in his South African accent in the midst of lockdown and it's a sad thing he's no longer with us.

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His local airport is listed as FAPE and I'm inviting anyone who knew Keith to fly in or around FAPE in about 1 weeks time on Saturday 26th June at 19:00 UTC which was around the time the group would meet. If you can spare 10 or 20 minutes in the aircraft of your choice (or open to a similar suggestion) it would be a nice thing to do to remember a friend and you never know, possibly raise a smile if we crash the server due to numbers - I'm sure Keith would have laughed at that.

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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby V12 » Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:40 pm

R.I.P. :(
Will attend, this saturday. And make sonic boom especialy for him.
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby Volador » Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:57 pm

Nice thought V12! - (just to confirm it's a week later, Sat 26th - I thought a little notice would help for a good turn out)
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby V12 » Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:54 am

Yes, You are right, 26th is next saturday, not this.
Thx.
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby Volador » Fri Jun 25, 2021 6:05 pm

I remember Keith was rationing his supply of beers during lockdown because their area had a curfew, I remember the sound of a beer opening and he'd tell us how many he'd got left in the cupboard before he ran out. I'll raise a glass on Saturday as it's evening here. I hope a few pilots who knew of Keith can find time to fly in - I'll bring the 747 8i that featured in many of our trips.
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby V12 » Sat Jun 26, 2021 4:32 pm

Who wants observe me, please download this aircraft :
https://github.com/BAWV12/Concorde
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby Volador » Sat Jun 26, 2021 5:20 pm

I've downloaded, thank you V12. Looking forward to seeing the boom, let us know on the chat a few minutes before so we can watch.
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby V12 » Sat Jun 26, 2021 6:40 pm

My intentions :
- take off from FAGG 1845UTC
- climb to FL260 M.97 to FAPE, low level overfly, then continue 30 miles, turn back and accel again to M.97 at FL260
- when over FAPE, boooooom
- back to FAGG
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby V12 » Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:08 pm

Some screenshots from this event. This was my flight with Concorde after more than 2 years break, but I'm still in good condition and managed to make barrel roll at M0.9 :)

Taxiing at FAGG :

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Enroute to FAPE :

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Sonic boom over FAPE, I hope that Keith can heard it :

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FL400 M1.3, destination FAGG :

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Landed at FAGG in 1 piece with burned brake pads :

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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby Volador » Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:09 pm

Great tribute V12

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the model is very impressive and the roll was the icing on the cake!

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Finals at FAPE
Clear skies and safe landings Keith.
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby Octal450 » Sat Jun 26, 2021 10:54 pm

Unfortunately I could not make the flight, but I brought the MD-11 into FAPE as a memorial. Rest in piece, Keith.

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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby Volador » Sun Jun 27, 2021 7:48 am

A nice thought Josh and people should feel free to post a pic or comment if they couldn't make the event, we have busy lives. I noticed another pilot arrived exactly an hour early as I was flying in, perhaps some confusion with UTC (but I too still have to double check my UTC clock for events on occasion!) so, nice thought GDsouza if the event was your intention.
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby tikibar » Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:41 pm

I was not able to make it for the fly-in event, unfortunately. I'm very sad to hear of Keith's passing. His presence made Atlas VA, then Global and later Charter better places. I flew a little tribute flight to Keith last night visiting the 3 airports he contributed to by adding buildings. I departed from Cape Town Int'l, made a touch-and-go at Keith's home airport in Port Elizabeth, and then continued on to Jo'burg. I flew the 757-200 with the RB211 engines, winglets, and a special Keith Hadden tribute livery that I made for the flight.

Here's a pic on approach at FAOR:
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And here's a little video of the touch-and-go at FAPE:


If anyone wants the 757-200 livery, it's available here.
Thanks, Volador, for letting us know about Keith and for posting the lovely photo (which I used on the tail in the livery).

To Keith Hadden!
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Re: Keith Hadden memorial flight FAPE Sat 26-6-2021 19:00 UT

Postby eatdirt » Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:13 am

Missed the post, R.I.P Mr. Hadden.

Would have been my pleasure to join and land there!

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