D2D

Thanks Dan, that’s great.

Could I ask if anyone else sees any publicity from the flight could they post it on here or e-mail me at [email]stephen.bridgewater@keypublishing.com[/email] ?

Louise and I did so many newspaper and radio interviews over the last few days that we lost track of where we were getting the publicity.

Thanks guys.

Steve

Thought you might be interested to see this article, it appeared in todays Kent on Sunday free newspaper 🙂

Regards,

Dan

Well done Steve and all the team.

Neil – the guys and gals at BBMF (especially Al Pinner and Jeanette) were all a great help. Landing at Coningsby and taxiing in to see so many people waiting for us was one of the highlights of the trip. The air traffic team were also very helpful both inbound and outbound.

Trapper 69 and Mike – many thanks for your comments.

Mike, glad you like the mag – I note you’re based at EGTK… in that case you may have seen G-AYEE that we used for the flight? She’s covered in our sponsors logos and somebody in EGTK tower commented that it looked like she’d been caught up an ‘explosion at a sticker factory’!!

If you get chance to come across to Pilot Flight Training sometime do come and say hello to the D2D team – most of whom are based there.

Cheers

Steve

Steve,
A fine effort on what must have been a memorable day. I look forward to reading the saga in TP.
Cheers,
Trapper 69

Seconded. Keep up the good work with TP. My favourite aviation mag

Steve,
A fine effort on what must have been a memorable day. I look forward to reading the saga in TP.
Cheers,
Trapper 69

Glad to hear the trip went well, didnt see you at Coningsby (I was on nights :rolleyes: ) but looked like a nice day for it..

Neil

Thanks Janie,

Route was

Oxford-Coventry
Coventry-Coventry (wx diversion)
Coventry-Blackpool
Blackpool-Coningsby
Coningsby-Wittering
Wittering-Duxford
Duxford-Cambridge
Cambridge-North Weald
North Weald-Manston
Manston-Goodwood
Goodwood-Lasham
Lasham-Lyneham
Lyneham-Kemble
Kemble-Little Rissington
Little Rissington-Oxford

The article will be in a future issue of TP – maybe the next one if I can find space.

Again, a big thank you to the airfields – many of whom waived landing fees, some of whom donated fuel and some of which opened late/early for us.

Steve

Bravo! That is pretty impressive. When is the report going to be published in the magazine?

I reckon I have the best view of London from where I work and we have had some fabulously clear days lately. Yesterday, was definitely well below par, so I think that was a pretty good achievement.

Can you list which airfields you got to?

Squirrel / Janie,

Thought you might be interested to hear how we got on?

Despite a two and three quarter hour delay due to fog at Oxford we finally got airborne at 07.15 to Coventry. We then spent a while on the ground at Coventry waiting for the haze to clear.

As the weather improved we vowed to complete as much of the flight as possible and – by just after 9pm last night we’d visited 14 airfields!

Total of 9.7hrs logged as far north as Blackpool and as far south as Goodwood.

It was an amazing day – one that Louise and I will remember forever.

Hopefully we also raised a lot of publicity for Flying Scholarships for the Disabled too.

Thank you to everyone who supported the flight – as well as everyone in our ops team and at the airfields who worked so hard yesterday to make sure it went as well as it did. You were all stars!

Cheers

Steve

Good luck Steve. Good luck to all your team too.

You’re a wise man to do it before the weekend. There’s a real scorcher forecast.

Thanks Squirrel,

We’re ready for the off from Oxford at 04.30 tomorrow.

Routing is planned as follows:

Oxford
Coventry
Kemble
Lyneham
Cardiff
Cosford
Woodvale
Blackpool
Sherburn-in-Elmett
Church Fenton
Hucknall
Coningsby
Wittering
Duxford
Fowlmere
Cambridge
North Weald
Southend
Biggin Hill
Manston
Headcorn
Goodwood
Lasham
Little Rissington
Oxford

Weather looking good at the moment!

Cheers

Steve