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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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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The long weekend of the 9th/10th and 11th June was planned as the longest fly out in terms of distance of the 2017 calendar. The plan was to spend the Friday evening in the picturesque town of COLMAR just south of Strasbourg before moving on or rather slightly back to the city of NANCY for
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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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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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Well as with the Culdrose trip the Gods of Sod hit me again with bad weather for the groups last daylight fly out of the year.
Having reached the middle of May and without a fly out to our name in 2013 due to each attempt being thwarted by poor weather there was some anticipation,
A long weekend from Thursday the 24th of May to Sunday the 27th of May was planned as a little birthday celebration trip for our long standing member Phil (Fish) Baggins Fellows, aka Red 2, who as having reached the old age of 50 thought it would be a ‘grand’ idea to take a couple
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Fortunately the tafs were good and the actual weather was even better than advertised when we met up at North Weald. The trip was going to be straightforward with a routing out towards Dover and direct to Calais. Once at Calais we were to have lunch in the airport restaurant before returning via the same route
