ready to ship

MDR01 ready for shipping, thanks to all of my Team!!!
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pieces

:-)
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dismantling racer

Midnight, still dismantling our racer for shipping to Abu Dhabi..
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finest finger food

Team dinner in our Hangar, preparing packing for Abu Dhabi!
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g-shock

Gettn ready to race with my new team supporter g-shock :-)
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Toolbox count

My TC Marco and my friend Marc counting and weighing all parts of our toolbox, lots of work, many parts :-)
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Press Conference in Basel today

Team MD is proud to announce its new team-partnership with G-SHOCK for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2009.

In today´s press conference, which took place in Basel at the Media day of the Basel-World
(The World Watch and Jewellery Show) we officially announced the Team-Partnership between Matthias Dolderer and G-SHOCK.

Matthias at his explanation of the Red Bull Air Race during his interview

Mr. Yuichi Masuda (Casio CorporateVice President and Senior General Manager TPU/Tokyo) with Matthias after the press conference.

Roll Out MDR01 on 21st March 2009

Ladies and Gents,
here we go, some pix of our Roll Out Party on 21st March, appx. 250 guests was hosted during the thrilling Roll Out ceremony.

I would like to thank all my family, partners, team and friends for their help to get the brand new MDR01 ready on time. Special thanks to Mirco for the wonderful design, Christian and Hanko Streifeneder for the fast and superb paintjob, and Walter from Typico for the super cool backdrop in our new Hangar-4 :-) ! Well done guys!

Team MD is working very hard in final stage for the first 2009-Red Bull Air Race in Abu Dhabi, which takes place on April 18th.

Please come back and check my blog regularly, we´ll have some more interesting news coming up soon again!

ready

Take off now in dinslaken to Tannheim
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enroute again

Departing Memmingen to cologne, pick up of my extra from the annual inspection today...
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Aircraft Branding

Branding is being done today by my friend Hannes Graf, it'll be a fantastic looking :-)
Thanks Hannes!!

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Flying Monday...

over the alps, it´s not only cool, it´s super cool up there...freeeezee...



...sometimes the edge rolls upside down :-)

First oil change

Just doing first oil change on MDR01 and further development this afternoon :-)

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spanair

Just landed and made it safe back to Germany... Rainy and cold...
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Race track...

...Feel the need for speed :-)

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Testing F1

Having a great time here in Barca :-)
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Barcelona approach

Just landed in spain :-)
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In Düsseldorf

Just flew my Extra330 for the annual inspection to Dinslaken, now enroute to Zürich and Barcelona, Spain for Media work with Formula_1...
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First Flight complete :-)

This evening MDR01 comleted its first flight, all is working well, thanks to my superb Team! more details later this month.. :-)

...as you can see, we have still lots of snow...
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Measureing the weight of our racer...

...soon ready for test run :-)
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Radio

I communicate with Becker Avionics, best comm for racing :-)
www.becker-avionics.de
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saturday

My edge is getting there :-) just installing the tail...
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snow in the city...

It ain't look good for flying racer 2morrow... Heavy snow again in Tannheim Intl...
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In Zürich

Just landed with Sebastian Vettel in Zürich, had a great day Flying so far :-)
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