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| BBQ Night | 09-07-2024 | Text | A most excellent BBQ was enjoyed by a number of members with burgers, sausages and salad in abundance, plus some rather excellent cake and dessert, rounded off with a presentation by Arthur on Farm Strip flying. If you fancy having a go in a very short landing aircraft or have always wanted to land in a particularly challenging strip, get in touch with them at www.farmstripflying.co.uk. I am sure they will be delighted to hear from you. | |
| RAF Cosford | 11-04-2024 | Text | The sun shone as we made our way to and around RAF Cosford. First stop for many was for coffee and cake followed by a tour of the first of the three big hangars. For many, this was the most popular with aircraft dating back to the first world war and some innovative test aircraft. For several, lunch called, followed by the second hangar which was the Cold War hangar, being relevant to one or two who served in the RAF at that time. It was a stark reminder of what could have been. The third hangar, called Hangar 1 oddly enough, contained a variety of aircraft of different shapes and sizes, plus a small art gallery and the history of the base. Too soon it was time to leave and as we pulled out of RAF Cosford, we realised we were missing one, despite several head counts. Turning the coach around on the narrow exit road was no mean feat but the Strut never leaves a man behind! | |
| April Meeting | 09-04-2024 | Text | Ernie Hoblyn entertained us with stories of building and flying replica Sopwith Camel biplane and Sopwith triplane with some interesting photos of not only the build process, but also in-air photos as part of his role in the Great War Display Team. My take-away from the evening was the difficulty in flying them. If your nose itches on take-off, scratch it when you land! | |
| March Meeting | 12-03-2024 | Text | In spite of a slight delay caused by a missing cable, David Beale managed a wonderful presentation about building and displaying his Mew Gull G-HEKL. | |
| New outings | 23-03-2024 | Text | Two outings arranged ( to include in March 12th newsletter ) Jet Age Museum / Kids Day / March 23rd . Saturday Arrive 10am at the Museum Cockpit time in the jets for the kids !! (1m tall minimum ). ( book with Mike ) info@carouselgolfing.com RAF Cosford Museum / April 11th Thursday Coach from Staverton 9am / return 5pm . Many new exhibits to view / restorations . Reserve your place on the coach return : £20 ( book with Mike by April 1st ) info@carouselgolfing.com | |
| February meeting | 13-02-2024 | Text | Kath Burnham who is a type rated instructor on Dakotas was our speaker for the evening and gave a fascinating talk about her life as a pilot of these iconic aircraft, plenty of amusing anecdotes kept the audience enthralled from start to finish. | |
| January 2024 meeting | 09-01-2024 | Text | It was the clubs AGM, which came and went in about 3 minutes. Some said it dragged on a bit. Afterwards, we were entertained by Richard Goodwin talking about his aerobatic flying, and his jet powered Pitts aircraft. One or two Europa fliers went away with some interesting ideas for their own aircraft. | |
| December 2023 meeting | 12-12-2023 | Text | A slide show of aircraft photographs was presented by Dave Haines and Steve Smith with a quiz element thrown in to check whether the audience had been been paying attention! Dave and Steve have attended the Rallies for many years and scour the airfields around to get photos of unusual and interesting light aircraft, and a very entertaining evening was had by all. The first part of the quiz was an identification game with members scoring from very high to very low! The second half was a challenge to name all of the aircraft types used by the military - who knew there were so many! Being the last meeting before Christmas, a glass of wine and a mince pie were served to all. |
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| 13-08-2024 | From 6:00pm | Croft Farm | Defford | Probably another excellent BBQ and another excellent speaker |
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| 300 | Europa Mono Wheel | I have retired from flying so selling my Europa. Europa Classic/XS: Permit has just expired (20/07/2024). Airframe: 272hrs. Rotax 912ULS: 272hrs. Airmaster 322: Whirlwind blades. Kanardia instrumentation. PMA 4000i/c: TY91 8.33 Radio. TT31 Transponder. TA50/TN72 GPS. TransCal Encoder: MGL (FF4 and TP3). Avalec fuel gauge. SmartAss, PilotAware, PowerFlarm, Garmin 660. £30K or sensible offer: For full details contact johnandvivbean@aol.com | europa.jpg | Sale | 300 | Cherokee PA28-140 1/8 share £1750 ono | G-AZWB (First owned by Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame) Hours: Airframe 10,890, Engine 2,077 run on condition with good compressions taken at the last annual in January 2024. We have a resident engineer within our group who completes the 50 hour and any other maintenance issues that might arise. The aircraft is equipped with Sky Echo 2 and has very good year-round availability with each of the 8 owners having a week in rotation but happy to spare a day or more from their week. This group is for recreational flying and the monthly costs are £120, and flying is charged at £100 per tacho hour wet (with a sliding scale beyond 12.5 hours per year). Hangared at Oaksey Park. Pete 07737060404 peterjkendall@hotmail.com | cherokee.jpg | Sale |
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