Rennes
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,
Past Trips
Bruntingthorpe Fly Out
Saturday, 6 October saw NWFG pilots and aircraft participate in one of the largest ever fly outs arranged to date – this time to Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire. Having planned and then scrubbed this particular fly out umpteen times due to weather, Reds One and Two finally came to realise that they were the jinx factor,
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Elvington 2012
Saturday the 8th September was scheduled to be a group fly out to Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire to visit the Yorkshire Air Museum and then to call in to Wickenby airfield in Lincolnshire on the way back. I don’t need to remind you of the appalling weather we have had this year that has seriously
Mini trip around France
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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Calais
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
Night Fly Out 3
The intrepid night flyers of the NWFG have had a pretty good winter really and we were very fortunate to finish off our night flying programme on Friday the 3rd February with an excellent trip to Coventry, just before the snow arrived in earnest. OP Nighties 3 had been delayed by one week due to
Night Fly Out 2
The 2012 Fly Out season took an early first step and got underway on Friday the 13th of January. Fortunately none of our intrepid aviators were superstitious or certainly didn’t admit to it. The year started as the last one finished with a successful night sortie. The planned first trip, a night fly to Coventry
Lydd night flight
Arranging these night flying trips is always a bit of a logistical nightmare. We had already been caught out on one of the refresher recoveries when the forecast bore absolutely no relation (amazingly) to what was out of the window. It was only after a considerable amount of wasted time that the intrepid steely few
Rouen
The final day time fly out of a very successful 2011 season was planned to be to Rouen in Normandy over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of October. I’m pleased to say that the weather was amazingly kind given the time of year and the 24 participants in nine aircraft had an excellent
Coventry
Saturday the 3rd of September was the planned group fly out to visit the ‘Airbase’ collection at Coventry Airport. As usual there was a very good turn out, all five NWFG aircraft were taking part and with the Archer ‘VB’, regulars Gordon and Chris in the Robin ‘GEEP’, two 152’s from RAF Halton and a
