GRANVILLE and CHARTRES Here we were in August and for the first time since the group fly outs started in earnest back in 2006 we had only managed one, albeit a very good one to Germany so far. The rest had been cancelled with monotonous regularity by what seemed to be a rolling succession of […]
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WEEZE/NIEDERRHEIN (EDLV) (EX RAF LAARBRUCH) 14th/15th MAY 2016 With a pretty dismal start to the year in terms of the weather thwarting the two earlier planned group fly outs, it was surprising to see a half-decent forecast a few days before our overnight trip to Weeze in Germany. With so much organisation required, for a
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TRAF SCAMPTON – THE RED ARROWS I was keeping the group visit to fly into RAF Scampton and visit the Red Arrows that I had managed to arrange for March 2016 a closely guarded secret so that I could include it as a bit of a highlight in the forthcoming 2016 programme. However my hand
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NWFG Mini Fly Out to RAF Bentwaters Once upon a time, the Suffolk coast reverberated to the sound of fast jet activity as the twin USAF bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, together with the nearby RAF station at Wattisham, kept guard against the Cold War threat posed by the Soviet Union. With the fall
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CRANFIELD Wednesday the 9th September. Our group visit to Cranfield airfield and the NFLC (National Flying Laboratory Centre) and the ASIC (Accident & Safety Investigation Centre) at the University was a late addition to the 2015 Fly Out programme after a kind invitation to visit by one of our own members Dr John Deane who
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The 2015 North Weald Flying Group Farm Strip Tour The first Saturday in September was the chosen date for NWFG’s annual farm strips tour. Always a firm favourite on the calendar this one: allowing pilots to put their skills to the test, planning and executing a lot of short legs in a short space of
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GRANVILLE/ALENCON FLY OUT 14th/15th/16th AUGUST 2015 Having set the date for this little French adventure in the middle of August I thought that we might not have too much trouble with the weather. We had been very lucky with our three day trip to the RNAS Culdrose ‘Air Day’ and the Scilly Isles just a
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Our 2014 visit to the Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose Air Day had to be cut short due to forecast bad weather and as a result we didn’t get beyond RNAS Yeovilton. This summer’s visit wasn’t shaping up to be much better, with constantly changing weather patterns sweeping in off the Atlantic. With an enormous
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Having had a rather dry year so far with the fly outs due to the variable weather, there was a lot of anticipation for our planned two day trip to St Omer in France and then onto Kortrijk, Belgium for an overnight stay. Alas, once again the forecast got the better of us but at
So. Ever since our little jaunt down to Lands End in Fox Alpha a couple of years ago, a number of people (that number being… err…one at most ;-)) have asked ‘How do you follow that?’ Well, on remarkably fine and warm and sunny day on Thursday, Young Malcolm and I teamed up again –
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