Jet on the ice runway

When we heard the lake was frozen, first thing came to mind was we could fly off that ! So off we went on Friday afternoon.
Lough Trusk is our local Floatplane site so we have flown there before.

What a flying site, perfectly flat, the ice is 10" thick in places and just about 1" of snow on the top, you can land anywhere!

The wooden pier in the background behind Stanley is where we normally stand when flying off the water !

And yes they are car tracks in the pic below on the right, car tracks were seen right across the middle.

With an opertunity like this the cars were loaded for Saturday, and after sitting in the car for a snow shower to pass through, we made what I would think was the first Turbine Jet flight off a frozen lake in Ireland with the Boomerang !

Very easy to taxi around and just takeoff and land wherever you want, better than any WWII runway

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