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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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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Channel Islands Trilogy 18th/20th May 2018 After the appalling flying weather over the winter, the spring didn’t really improve very much and apart from our lucky day out to Elvington in April the weather had been up and down like a yo-yo for those of you who remember what they were. My hopes weren’t high
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Although I managed to get in a few night trips in early November in terms of the group trips it had been a very frustrating few months in the run-up to Christmas. The planned dates that we had for the group refresher nights just after the clocks changed where our participating night rated guys
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