At times if involved with aviation in any way you hear some very sad things, so I was very sorry to read this item in the Braintree and Witham Times concerning the owner of Rayne Hall Farm.
He was very welcoming when my friend and I landed there a few years ago and his passing is a very sad loss to both his family and the light aviation community. RIP
http:// http://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/10419007.Braintree
By: Moggy C - 5th September 2013 at 13:05
It looks like it is intending to continue and prosper.
Free landings now to encourage visitors and pretty low cost fuel available too.
Moggy
By: Willip26 - 5th September 2013 at 12:38
Yes it happened in May but it was only last weekend that I first became aware of it.
Word usually gets around so I was both shocked and rather surprised that I had seen no mention of it before.
From what I was told he was checking the contents of his fuel bowser, when he slipped and lost his footing and fell off and broke his neck. An awful way to go.
He was the only other person there when we visited and it makes me wonder what will happen now to the airfield just to the east of Andrewsfield without its guiding light.
Wicked Willip
By: Moggy C - 3rd September 2013 at 08:13
I hadn’t spotted that this happened back in May.
It is right however that it is noted here; by all accounts he seems to have been a great bloke.
Moggy
By: EGTC - 1st September 2013 at 20:39
That’s sad to hear.
By: Dr Strangelove - 1st September 2013 at 17:20
Very sad.
An easy accident to have as well, we were never encouraged to go up top to carry out dips etc, it’s so easy to slip or tip & go overboard, all our wagons had safety rails fitted, which had to be up & locked in place before you could venture up.
Could happen to anyone sadly 🙁
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August 31, 2013 at 11:59 pm