The final day time fly out of a very successful 2011 season was planned to be to Rouen in Normandy over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of October. I’m pleased to say that the weather was amazingly kind given the time of year and the 24 participants in nine aircraft had an excellent […]
Saturday the 3rd of September was the planned group fly out to visit the ‘Airbase’ collection at Coventry Airport. As usual there was a very good turn out, all five NWFG aircraft were taking part and with the Archer ‘VB’, regulars Gordon and Chris in the Robin ‘GEEP’, two 152’s from RAF Halton and a
Another very successful group trip was undertaken on Monday the 15th August, this time to Wattisham airfield in Suffolk which is home to the Army Air Corps Apache attack helicopters. As is usual with the military visits the process began several months ago with letter writing, document forwarding, other bureaucratic niceties and attending a recce/planning
Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th July were to be the second overnight stay fly out of the year. This was a lot shorter than our Spanish adventure at just one night but the Isle of Man is a lot closer than Asturias. The plan was to leave North Weald and stop at Welshpool
Following closely on from the Spanish adventure, this fly-out was pulling in the reins a bit to allow the bank balances of those who took part to recover. This was to be a ‘farm strip’ day where the idea was to visit hopefully new airfields around East Anglia that certainly most of us wouldn’t have
Saturday April the 9th was the group’s planned day to fly to East Kirkby to visit the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centres wartime airfield museum collection and resident Lancaster Bomber NX611, ‘Just Jane’. The TAFS were very good for the whole day and departing from High Cross for the quick hop over to North Weald was
The planned five day group trip through France and along the northern Spanish coast to Asturias airport was to be the most ambitious yet undertaken and was given the codename ‘Operation Matador II’. Seven aircraft were due to take part with eighteen members and guests and as you can imagine had been a long time
Goodwood was the new destination instead of the originally planned (Blackbushe & Biggin Hill) due to their expensive landing fees. So Goodwood it was, one of the group’s favourite grass fields in the south of England. There are always interesting types there and the airfield, which apart from being surrounded by the old perimeter track
After a few evenings where we have managed to complete most of the night flying refresher flights at Andrewsfield, the evening of Friday the 21st January approached. This was not only a planned group night fly but also the first fly out of 2011 and should have taken us to Oxford. Needless to say despite
Sunday the 17th October was planned as the fourth annual ‘Bomber Day’ group competition. Taking off from High Cross in the Archer ‘VB’ to head over to North Weald to meet the competitors and reveal the target locations it occurred to me that this event has so far never been scuppered by the weather. Today
