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- These are the sort of brooding dark skies that most pilots stay well clear of and have a strong sense of relief when back on the ground. This is an account by Sinziana of a determined and successful attempt to brave the storms and go air racing written by addicts of that exciting branch of aviation that has persisted since flying in aircraft began. They did it in their plane of choice the pilots machine the Beagle Pup 150, not a spam can an aircraft that will get you through heavy weather they had an amazing weekend at the Royal Aero Club Bleriot race in Abbeville/France. We flew from North Weald wishing to get to Abbeville that evening, but risking our lives on a crazy thunderstorm. Was crazy. We actually had a black clouds curtain in front of us and took our chances to pass it and land somewhere safe. Instead of going straight to Abbeville we had to land quickly somewhere because the storm was coming. Unfortunately our radio reception from the Beagle stuck on decimal .2 and we could only hear airfields with decimal.2. anyway we found Rochester airfield nearby and we flew straight there, borrowed a portable radio and flew forward to Lydd. We couldn’t get to Abbeville that evening…was crazy… we had to spend the night in New Romley (Lydd). The next morning was incredible. Blue sky, perfect and we arrived just on time for refuelling and racing. Have a look at her blog. www.airsportstv.wordpress.com
- Fiery sunset.
- The golden sunset begins.
- Hot Oranges and Lemons Sky
- Blue on Pink Sky, So lovely.
- This is a most wonderful sunset, amazing colours.
- This must be the most spectacular sunset . Time 4 minutes earlier
- Early October Sunset. Time 19:29
- Nord 3202 Nose art.
- So French: Max Holste M.H.1521 Broussard
Hi, T’rance, Bomb Sight is spelt like that, a bomb site is one of those shameful holes in the City of London which continued to blight the London landscape years after the losers had rebuilt all their cities and re-faced the Mohne dam into the bargain. This little aerodyne appears to have a pair of Gypsy Majors ?? With a lot more Chevaux of course.
There was a Miles Marathon which had four Gypsies, and everything on it worked off the electrics, like the French a/c elsewhere used pneumatics.
It turned out that because the gear, flaps, etc were all powered from the one source, with no back up, the Miles Marathon could not get a U.K. C of A.
You’d have thought that Miles might have read the Air Worthiness Regs. before they built their four engined high speed airliner, but no, and so the RAF was the only customer for what was a really nice a/c to fly, and it too was a navigation trainer in the 1950s.