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Day 1 - Thursday 29th June 2000
It is very warm but cloudy in Helsinki before we start our journey to the MM00 site. The weatherman reports almost +30°c and thunder stroms in the Eastern Finland, MM00 area. Lets hope that we do beter with the networking that in MM99. Images and more text will be availabe "soon", it is 6 hours drive from Helsinki... ;-)
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| Enroute to the MM00 site Neck was flying too long inverted and his bus started pulling some smoke... |
After the beer facilities were succesfully setup most of the con goers went to a serious sauna session while some of us were working on the networking. The network was up and running at about 03:00 am (Fri) so no problems there!
Day 2 - Friday 30th June 2000
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| The local deodorant has a stinging aroma and it does not attract females willing to suck. Suprisingly all of the attendees are pouring this stuff on them like there was no tomorrow! |
The first full day of the con opened up sunny and very hot. Today we can expect some serious action in the virtual skyes, later on we will also upload some images from the chopper action...
It is way too hot for most computers so most covers are stripped to keep them running. Unfortunately the hot weather (+35°c or so, could be 95°F) is not keeping the mosquitoes downed... In the heat of the battle we were hinted about the Pelit-lehti (http://www.pelit.fi/) comments on our modest convention. Does the pope have a funny hat? Does the Pinochio have wooden balls? Do we have enough of Flakpanzer Oil? Whatever, also eDome (http://www.edome.net/) noted us...
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| The Mosquito Meeting '00 (and '99) site seen from the air. If you look really hard you can see con goers taking a red field at the main arena...! |
As promiced the second convention day saw some serious chopper action! All who wanted got a sightseeing ride from a nearby airport, and a mouthfull of sand that was happily spread around by Korben in his Bell JetRanger 206.
Model planes competition in the lenght was fearce and loooong. The aerobatics competition was won by Kossu, Grendel being second (again) and then Cosmo and Stubit. Glamorous prizes were given away. And after a hard days work what do you expect us to do...? Sauna all night long!
Day 3 - Saturday 1st July 2000
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| Some food is also needed even though most of us seem to be convinced about the nutritious effects of the Flakpanzer Oil. |
The third day opened up as hot as the previous days. Most of the party animals were awake by noon and another heavy sessions of aerial combat were fired up.
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| Puujiikoo was giving lessons on aerial combat that no-one in the room could avoid following. Especially the shooting solution descriptions resulted applauds in the audience... |
Fearce fighting in the head to head duel lead to a Swedish surprise (?) win, Rudu downed us all. The all time MM## duel champion Cosmo was taken down by Rudu in the first round... Whatever, Kossu kept up the Ice flag and Zombie and Kynkky were good third and fourth in the competition. The bomber duel is still going on... While most of the guys were concentrating on the H2H duel some of us spotted some birds in the yard as a local wedding party was launched.
Maybe we did give Cosmo a bit too much FPO after all... Cosmo was giving up in saturday evening, so first Lart stepped up the "Cosmo, take some FPO" campaign. After some time we were rather successful getting him dead drunk. He was later spotted crawling towards his bed so Grendel came to the rescue and brought Cosmo back and filled him with more FlakPanzer Oil. Then Lart & Grendel continued the filling operation and succeeded in most marvellous way. Cosmo was so stoned, oh, so stoned. FOr the whole RTB from MM he just layed down in the Ju-52 transport floor...
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The last evening of the con saw a few organized (?) con missions, first one lead 15 or so Ju87-G to an aerial combat in the F6 area. The poor P38 rider must have been supriced when he was jumped by a squad of hungry stukas... The second mission involved a sky full of red mosquitoes (suprice, suprice) sweeping fields. The mission sucked as it was supposed to... Later in the evening the fumed up pilots attended a weekend warrior scenario as squad "Überdunkens Scandinavians". The Ride of the Valkyrias was played with full volume all night long.
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Mosquito Meeting '00
