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From Thruxton (U.K.)  to Biarritz (France)

The number of potential participants fluctuated, but on the 5th September, five aircraft came together in glorious weather at Biarritz in the south west of France on the Spanish border, our jumping off point into Spain and beyond for the Great Unplanned Moroccan Air Tour, or GUMAT 2.

The aircraft and crews were the well equipped Tiger D-EDDO, flown solo for the most part by Jörg Trauboth, the AA5A N100EA, flown by Ted van Dam Merrett from Holland with various splendid characters as co-pilots who joined and left along the route, D-ENFL, a Tiger flown by Peter Romeikat from Germany with our honorary European, Ed Manning from California, as co-pilot.

The UK contingent, all in their seventies consisted of Brian Hogan and John Jeffries in their Traveller G-MALC, and John Collins and me in the AA5A G-JAJB.

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