Due to the ongoing Covid 19 crisis and current restrictions, it is with great regret that all the NWFG proposed Fly-Outs for 2020 have been cancelled. Hopefully, we will be able to consider a 2021 Programme towards the end of the year.
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Seething and Gt Massingham – Saturday 5th October 2019 Things very rarely go to plan in this flying lark and infinite flexibility is the name of the game usually as the weather doesn’t play ball. This fly out day was no exception and with almost constant rain for the preceding 10 days and a stubborn
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Farm Strips Fly Out – 1st September 2019 The 2019 NWFG farm strips fly out was, remarkably, the Group’s eighth such event. I say ‘remarkably’, because that entails that (a) we’ve managed to have enough flyable weather to make things happen eight times (although 2015’s event was, to put it politely, ‘somewhat last-minute improvised’ after
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BOURGES – 2nd AUGUST to the 4th AUGUST 2019 The much-anticipated fly out to Bourges (capital of the department of Cher) in central France on the first weekend in August approached with the promise of good weather for the whole trip, well at the French end anyway. We had a full complement of NWFG aircraft
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GAMSTON (Retford) & DEENTHORPE – 22nd JUNE 2019 The fly out on the 22nd June followed the very successful trip to Paris and the Palace of Versailles in May. Although planned to be an awful lot simpler with a day visit to the Lincolnshire Heritage Aviation Museum at East Kirkby these things are rarely straightforward
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Versailles – May 16th to May 18th 2019 It’s my birthday in May. I mention this because from the long and bitter experience of outdoor childhood birthday parties rapidly decamped to the local village hall, I know that May’s weather can either be glorious… or distinctly vile. With the Group planning a major fly-out to
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Sat 9th MARCH – GAMSTON (RETFORD) & LEICESTER A little starter to the season with Gamston as a new airfield not previously visited as a group. Gamston for lunch before stopping at Leicester on the way back pm. Wed 24th APRIL – RAF COSFORD. The RAF Museum at Cosford is always worth a visit and
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Ah… What could be more enjoyable than flying in and out of grass airstrips on a perfect summer’s day? Fortunately for a fair number of NWFG pilots, the answer to this question is ‘Not a lot’, and so at the start of September 2018, a reasonable number of us gathered for the annual Farm Strips
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The long weekend trip to Dinan and Angers in France was eagerly anticipated by our members after our highly successful Channel Islands Trilogy the previous month. Both of these stops were to be for most a new experience. Dinan a delightful and picturesque town in Normandy and Angers a larger and historic city some 90
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NWFG Fly Out, Elvington – April 2018 Funny how time marches on. The Group’s last visit to Elvington, back in September 2012, marked the first public appearance of the Group’s swanky new livery, in the guise of Fox-Charlie resplendent in her new colours. Younger viewers may struggle to believe this, but up until that point,
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