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Lex Hassig comes to help me get started with converting the Garage into a Hangar. With a well aimed hit he hammers in the very first nail, kicking of the whole project.]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:51:19 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/money.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/money.jpg.html
Enough thinking. It's one hell of a big step and an enormous commitment, but you can analyse things to death for ever. If you really want it, go for it!

I ORDER KIT #1.]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:04:38 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Jeroen+vliegtuig+006.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Jeroen+vliegtuig+006.jpg.html
Keith helps me out of the plane. What I do not know then is that he is also busy helping people out of the money for complete kits, knowing the company is going south and he can never deliver. This joker was running a Ponzi scheme before anyone had even heard of Bernie Madoff.
More by luck than design I decide to wait just a bit more before taking the plunge. A few months later Europa is bankrupt, KW and the money are gone. A lucky escape, but what now?]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:57:49 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Test+Flying.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Test+Flying.html
I go for a flight with Keith in the trigear, while Ivan takes up the monowheel enthusiasts.]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:48:43 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Jeroen+vliegtuig+003.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Jeroen+vliegtuig+003.jpg.html
With Ivan is Keith Wilson, the bossman of the Europa Company. Some time ago he bought it from Shaw in a management buyout. In the red jacket Wouter, aspiring monowheel driver, who will make regular guest apearances in the rest of the log.]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:41:43 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Jeroen+vliegtuig+004.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Jeroen+vliegtuig+004.jpg.html
I am not the only ijit who thinks this might be an acceptable way of spending time and money. The Netherlands rep for Europa, Rob van Essen, arranges for a few of us daydreamers to have a test flight. For this purpose, two aircraft come over from the UK to Stadtlohn, just over the German border (don't mention the war).]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:44:31 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Jeroen+vliegtuig+007.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/Jeroen+vliegtuig+007.jpg.html
And climbing out of the plane- the big man himself! Ivan Shaw, the designer of the Europa.]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:36:59 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/19940largeab51.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/19940largeab51.jpg.html
It's the start of a new century and my thoughts turn skyward. I want to get flying again (having let my ultra-light licence expire) but in Holland that is expensive and boring. I would like to fly to exotic places but unless you have your own plane that is not realistic. I'm a programme manager at Fokker building business jet tails but can't even touch my own product since I'm not qualified. Karma is not with me.
Then I chance on Mark Evans and his series on Discovery Channel. THIS IS IT! I can do all those things and Mark shows that you can finish it in fifteen episodes. I'm off!
The whole series can be found at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD6_pZ4vsyQBbhKaiFQHjzYzG-HsCVGRb]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:55:03 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/imm014_15A.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/imm014_15A.jpg.html ]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:07:10 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/imm015_16A.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Glazener/album301/imm015_16A.jpg.html
The Europa smile, and she hasn't even built one!]]> Jeroen Glazener photo Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:06:43 +0000