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float flying off of ice, Red Lake Ontario 2015

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Mon May 18, 2015 12:58 pm

float flying off of ice, Red Lake Ontario 2015

https://vimeo.com/127965727

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Mon May 18, 2015 1:23 pm

Re: float flying off of ice, Red Lake Ontario 2015

That was great! What a beautiful area. Thanks for sharing it!

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Mon May 18, 2015 9:24 pm

Re: float flying off of ice, Red Lake Ontario 2015

Thanks! Very cool--literally--bet that water is co-o-o-o-o-old! :wink:

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Tue Jun 23, 2015 5:28 pm

Re: float flying off of ice, Red Lake Ontario 2015

For a bloke from Australia, Ice is a weird enough concept.....but taking a float plane off of Ice? now that's just a head f$@k!
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Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:55 am

Re: float flying off of ice, Red Lake Ontario 2015

That was cool!
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Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:45 pm

Re: float flying off of ice, Red Lake Ontario 2015

DrifterDriver wrote:For a bloke from Australia, Ice is a weird enough concept.....but taking a float plane off of Ice? now that's just a head f$@k!

I think it was Bob Munro who used the floated Beaver and flew off glacires also, I know there have been many others.
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