Daniel Babusca

The fourth attempt for the North Weald Flying Group to fly out and visit the Great Dams of the Ruhr Valley in Germany – the previous attempts all being scuppered by bad weather and poor forecasts. The story of the famous ‘Dambusters’ of 617 Sqn RAF attacking and successfully destroying both the ‘Mohne’ and ‘Eder’ […]

Monday saw the dawn break on the third attempt to visit RAF Cosford and its museum. The two previous dates had been cancelled, the first by the RAF who had got their opening dates slightly confused and the second by all the MOD’s UK airfields being closed due to the Volcanic ash cloud. Now there’s

Saturday the 13th March was North Weald Fly Out Group’s planned trip to Shobdon and Enstone. With our February trip to Thruxton and Wycombe partly scuppered by the poor weather it was refreshing to see some half decent TAFs which gave a more positive outlook for a good day. And a good day it was

Saturday the 30th January was the date for our postponed fly out to Lydd and Manston. After the continual bad weather of late, two nice hard runway airports were the only real choice to avoid the boggy grass of some smaller airfields. Full ATC at both also gave the opportunity for some members to get

Saturday the 7th November was planned as our last daylight fly out for this year. Where has the year gone? The destinations were Nottingham for lunch and Peterborough Conington for tea on the way back and a further pilot change if required. After a rather gloomy Friday, amazingly the weather did as the TAFs predicted

The day finally arrived for the annual – and very popular – North Weald Flying Group ‘Bomber Day’ back to basics navigation competition. Amazingly this is the third year we have arranged this light hearted but competitive event and even more amazingly the weather has never scuppered this one, well so far. In the same

The ‘Fly Out’ for Saturday the 5th September was planned with something a little different in mind. Having flown into the very historic airfield of Bicester near Oxford earlier in the year to pick up the new mode s transponders and been given a tour of the excellent facilities, yet another plan formed for a

Despite being lucky on the last couple of North Weald fly outs, the weather came back to bite us for the planned trip to RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset. With the day having been changed at short notice at the request of the Royal Navy to avoid conflicting with an exercise, we gathered early at ‘The

  Over a slightly boozy lunch just over a year ago with Sqn Ldr Lyn Crawley – a good friend for a number of years – there was a chance remark that Lyn was going to the Red Arrows reunion dinner in a couple of weeks. Lyn is an ex team manager of the Red