The last formal fly out of the 2017 season saw the North Weald Flying Group crews head to Lee-on-Solent on the south coast. Due to a slight cock-up on the booking front (all my own I should add!), I thought I’d put my name down for this one but evidently hadn’t – a fact that […]
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Saturday the 2nd of Sept was planned as the group trip to explore the Welsh Mountains and the west coast. Given this was the third year of attempting this trip with the previous two year’s having been scuppered by atrocious weather my expectations of success this time weren’t really that high. However, it’s nice to
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As is often the case, in the days leading up to this year’s Farm Strips Fly Out the forecasts began to look none too promising. In fact ‘none too promising’ is something of an understatement, ‘positively dire’ would perhaps be more accurate, and so with some confidence I left work on Friday evening having assured
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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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Getting the first fly out of the year ‘off the ground’ proved uncommonly difficult in 2017. Not for want of any enthusiasm or desire, you understand, but simply because the weather gods and the logistics fairies had obviously decided to get together and between them have a jolly good laugh at our expense. We were
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Monday 28th November 2016 – Mini Night Fly Coventry We had managed to get a small group of our night owls ‘refreshed’ on a cracking calm, starry evening at Andrewsfield after just one weather delay. That put us nicely ready to start the group night trips. However, our first planned outing on the 18th November
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The 2016 NWFG Farm Strips Fly Out My esteemed colleague Malcolm assures me that this year’s Farm Strips Fly Out is the Group’s third. In so doing I believe he’s elected to turn a blind eye to last year’s event, where due to the weather we binned our original plans and went to the pub
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THE LUTON-STANSTED GAP Those of you with long memories may recall that a few years ago I climbed into Fox-Alpha one summer’s day and successfully managed to bash off ten grass airstrips all located within Essex and all of which were new to me at the time, (see: https://nwfg.co.uk/a-little-local-adventure-2/?y=2013#mark). With the exception of Audley End, all of
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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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WEEZE/NIEDERRHEIN (EDLV) (EX RAF LAARBRUCH) 14th/15th MAY 2016 With a pretty dismal start to the year in terms of the weather thwarting the two earlier planned group fly outs, it was surprising to see a half-decent forecast a few days before our overnight trip to Weeze in Germany. With so much organisation required, for a
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