Great North Fly-in 2012

Phil is referring to the size of the event – we had over 100 aircraft drop in and averaged an aircraft movement every 3 minutes or so. Add that to the fact that there was only four of us doing all the marshalling (including guiding the aircraft across the active runway) and arranging parking slots. It made for quite a hectic day on Saturday.

yeah about that size will do Phil, im suffering from a major bout of man flu today so im not working properly 🙁

BIGGER??

Oh no…….. ‘fainted‘

oh i see, suppose it pays to read the comments before watching the vid ey :p

sorry to hear of the incident, hope pilot and pax are on the mend?

Regards

Scott, we didn’t want the air ambulance to tun up (well rather they weren’t supposed to…). They were there doing their job, airlifting one of our pilots to hospital following a nasty incident.

Thanks again to all, and hopefully next year will be even bigger and better! We’ve been called a ‘mini-Sywell’. I can live with that! 😀

looks like an excellent weekend was had, nice to the the Air Ambo turn up 🙂

just noticed im in the 2011 video too

keep up the good work GNFI team

…and finally, the video!!

…and a reasonably restrained and indeed sensible article from the Journal. That’s not like them…:p

Glad everyone is safe. As you say, it could have been much worse.

Simon

… erm, yes there was an incident. The word is that they are both out of hospital – the lady may have had an operation to pin her broken arm, whilst the gent (pilot) has severe bruising and broken ribs.

It could have been a lot worse…

Apologies for not making the Fly-In this year JT442 and Phantom Phil, but glad it was a success.

I did see this in the local rag though:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/09/24/two-injured-at-eshott-airfield-after-microlight-crashes-61634-31893316/

Hope they’re both on the road to recovery.

Simon

Gyrocopter helmet cam of the weekends events:

A good weekend was had by all – thanks to the forumites who turned up, and of course the pilots of the 100 (ish) aircraft who arrived on Saturday despite both runways being closed for a while. The North East’s Classic car fraternity put in a superb appearance even though our advertising missed most of them! On sunday they provided a huge range of cars totaling about 40…

Special thanks to to the large scale modellers and of course Project Mobility. No doubt someone will be along with photographs at some point – eventually they will all end up on the GNFI website….

Bump !
Had a great day today with good weather and in good company and with superb locally made beefburgers and it’s all on again tomorrow , Sunday 23rd .
Landing and entrance fees waived in lieu of a donation to charity so all in a good cause too !

Some video from last year…

Just a reminder that GNFI 2012 is on this weekend coming!!

Our latest confirmation is a Fokker Monoplane replica:

That would be MUCH appreciated!!!

Sorry you had to cancel.
Perhaps we can rustle some VAC members to the new dates.
Our event on the IoW is still on if folks want to come there.

looking like w/e of 14th-16th Sep.