Just thought you would like to meet the Motley crew that works behind the scenes

Leif Harding - Chief cook and bottle washer - master of none

Sean (Phlashgit) Admin, Disk Jockey sometime aircraft painter , and Director of Maintainance of Venture Hawaii Virtual Airline

David Molyneaux - Master Auster Builder - oh yes and builder of very nice scenery and all around good guy -

Lars Fors - Panel Builder and Robert Shaw impressionist - Lars has been instrumental(nudge nudge) in upgrading many older models cockpit - Try his Wlalrus panel for Mike Stones Shagbat!

Chris Trott -- One of the youngest members of the team -- Painter, FSA Advisor and driver of things powered with large American turboprops

The old gent with him is a B29 Gunner and veteran Blackie" Blackburn in 2008 (sadly now passed away)
Chris did the excellent repaints of the Bae146 for Venture VA

Martin Pengelly (showing how he got his screenname (T6Flyer) Auster expert - Site Librarian - provider of excellent photographs and reference material for many of the models produced hereabouts.

Jan Dankebar - Manager of European Operations Venture Virtual VA, Builder of very nice Scale plastic models (see the plastic modelers forum) Painter - (See the VHA F27) Dutch Copper and proud father of young Jasper Lego helicopter pilot.

Peter Watkins - Prolific repainter - creator of many of the general aviation repaints here at the Pond and another T6 afficiando

Jon Murnaghan - Co-Manager of Venture Europe/Va Pilot - Painter of 737s, Carvairs and 747s , another ex-pat living in Italy - Murdercycle enthusiast , and our resident Chiropactor --

Keith Paine
Builder,Engineer and another expat - this time La Belle France
Keith is our Kings Cup racing expert - his father raced in real life for many years so he has a vast knowledge of 50s and 60s British General Aviation


Thats a natty puter seat you have there Keith!

and a quick shot of Keith in his youth with G-AHNA

Scott Cebula - CEO of Venture Virtual Airline , sometime crop duster pilot, Emergency dispatcher in the great white north Dakota, and true FS pilot - Scott has been flying every day for VHA for f0ur years almost . Oh yes an quite an expert on the Luftwaffe,

Mark (Miggers) Polles - founder member of the Pond - admin - FAA fanatic and plastic model builder - also another murdercycle rider
seen with his son

Hi all, and thanks for being there. One gets so tired of flying the set- and forget, does-everything-automaticly-til-it-remembers-YOU-forgot-something-important type planes. The oldies I watched in awe when I was a kid offer a real pilot more things to ;tinker' with and 'manage' to relive the boredom of long sector flights with passengers.........or not.
Thanks guys, I can fly 'em........but rubbish at building 'em!!
Geoff Heard
Melbourne, Australia.