Saturday the 13th March was North Weald Fly Out Group’s planned trip to Shobdon and Enstone. With our February trip to Thruxton and Wycombe partly scuppered by the poor weather it was refreshing to see some half decent TAFs which gave a more positive outlook for a good day. And a good day it was […]
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Saturday the 30th January was the date for our postponed fly out to Lydd and Manston. After the continual bad weather of late, two nice hard runway airports were the only real choice to avoid the boggy grass of some smaller airfields. Full ATC at both also gave the opportunity for some members to get
Saturday the 7th November was planned as our last daylight fly out for this year. Where has the year gone? The destinations were Nottingham for lunch and Peterborough Conington for tea on the way back and a further pilot change if required. After a rather gloomy Friday, amazingly the weather did as the TAFs predicted
The day finally arrived for the annual – and very popular – North Weald Flying Group ‘Bomber Day’ back to basics navigation competition. Amazingly this is the third year we have arranged this light hearted but competitive event and even more amazingly the weather has never scuppered this one, well so far. In the same
The ‘Fly Out’ for Saturday the 5th September was planned with something a little different in mind. Having flown into the very historic airfield of Bicester near Oxford earlier in the year to pick up the new mode s transponders and been given a tour of the excellent facilities, yet another plan formed for a
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After the debacle of the perverse Dutch requirement for a fixed ELT scuppering our planned trip to Germany, the weather then dealt the double whammy by forcing us to cancel our alternative 10 aircraft trip to France on the weekend of the 17/18/19th July. The final fall back weekend was the 7/8/9th August and
Despite being lucky on the last couple of North Weald fly outs, the weather came back to bite us for the planned trip to RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset. With the day having been changed at short notice at the request of the Royal Navy to avoid conflicting with an exercise, we gathered early at ‘The
Over a slightly boozy lunch just over a year ago with Sqn Ldr Lyn Crawley – a good friend for a number of years – there was a chance remark that Lyn was going to the Red Arrows reunion dinner in a couple of weeks. Lyn is an ex team manager of the Red
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Saturday was to be the second attempt at Compton Abbas and Popham, having previously been postponed because of bad weather. Leading up the big day, and a week of near cloudless skies, however the forecast showed not unsurprisingly, a downturn for the weekend. With four fly out members cancelling at short notice due mainly to
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After no less than four cancellations due to bad weather, several group members finally managed to get the long awaited night flying trip off the ground on Friday the 8th February. Due to the short notice and the disbelief by most potential participants that the weather would actually be good enough to go, this one
