Another pin in the map

I’m in.

Helicopters do not fly. They are so ugly the earth repels them!

Come and see us in the red tent. The kettle is on!

Vimy over Brooklands

Greetings All. There I was, minding my own business at the Moth Rally when this geezer asked if I was busy on Sunday afternoon. I replied that I would still be at the Rally, he enquired if I would be willing to do a little job. That little job transpired to be assisting Peter Macmillan with a positioning flight from Woburn to Dunsfold via Brooklands. It took me less than a nano second to agree! Peter and I did a trial circuit at Woburn and then departed 30 mins later for the Guess the Height competition and flight to Brooklands.
The initial routing was from Woburn to Halton and then onto Booker,thus keeping out of the Heathrow zone. Heathrow offered a more direct routing via Ascot to the OCK VOR. This gave us spectacular views of Winsor castle and Heathrow.Visibilty was unlimited and we quickly found Brooklands and ran in for a couple of orbits – amazing to be loooking down on all those people looking up! Peter graciously allowed me to fly to Dunsfold from Brooklands – what an aeroplane! At Dunsfold we struggled to thread the aeroplane through gates and past road signs into a hangar for the night. This aeroplane requires teamwork to fly and teamwork to handle on the ground! A Cirrus arrived to transport us in 21st century luxury back to Turweston and John Flynn arrived at Turweston in our syndicate Queen Bee to transport me back to Woburn WHAT A DAY!!! My enternal thanks to Peter and all the guys who made this possible.