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Strasbourg has two airfields serving the city: Entzheim (LFST) and Neuhof (LFGC).
Neuhof (LFGC) is much more conven
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Aviation Video: F-16 Dead Stick Landing
The most amazing thing I’ve seen this week was via Jetwhine: this amazing video o
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Cliff taxied the plane over to the pumps and I hopped out to get us some fuel.
“I’ll get out in a moment,&
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We arrived home yesterday after a lovely trip getting caught up with everyone. We went to England to drop Connor off at school (*sniffle*) and to see Cliff’s mum then on to Strasbourg to chec
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The following morning, we left our hotel to do some exploring. Our hotel was in Hugh Town, known locally as just the Town.
‘The Town’ has a feeling unlike any other part of Scilly - built
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I took my time arranging the next island trip. After arriving home from the Channel Islands, Anne had suffered a heart attack. I felt guilty at my immediate reaction: thank God it didn’t happen
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August is a busy time in general aviation so I suppose it’s not surprising that it is also a time of many accidents. However, the amount of small planes in the news this past week has seemed exc
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I loved the idea of landing at every one of the British Isles from the moment my boyfriend set me the challenge. One of the key reasons was that these islands have some of the most interesting airfiel
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The first reference to flying at St. Mary’s appears to be 1917: the 34th Squadron of the Royal Navy Air Service were based at Porthmellon, including “seaplanes and flying-boats”.
Th
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The Isles of Scilly (the locals frown upon the phrase “the Scilly Isles” for reasons that I don’t really understand) are an archipelago of 150 islands off of the Cornish coast. St
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Five Airports One Flight
For those of us dreaming of flying the London Airports, this video of
Five Airports One Flight is astounding to watch.
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Plastic Pilot has been
planning a trip to Guernsey and I couldn’t help but remember my first flight there. This was
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One of the common routes that we fly is between South-east England, where we both have friends and family to Málaga, near our home here on the South Coast of Spain. We have it down to a fine art as
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After landing on Jersey, my attention was immediately taken by a plane parked near the flying school, half a wing missing. A laminated sheet was attached. Ever the voyeur for accident reports, I could
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Another selection of interesting and intriguing aviation articles that I stumbled upon while I should have been working.
June 23, 2008
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Sam Cross was just another PPL student - he needed one more birthday before he could complete his licence but he wasn’t in a rush. He was 16 years old and had flown 15 hours and, in his previous
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Flying always feels different after sunset. Isolated, elsewhere, in orbit instead of just above. My world becomes the plane and the plane is the entire world. Cities and farmland and lakes and railwa
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To prepare for our trip to Switzerland, I flew with the Saratoga to Andrewsfield, a small airfield near Stansted in Essex that I’d not been to before. Andrewsfield was built by the Americans in
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I’ve come down with some sort of horrific flu and really not up to writing a word - but I wanted to start posting, especially as I know
Plastic Pilot i
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Shoreham Airport is one of my favourite airfields with a convenient location and easily spotted from the air, whichever direction you come in from. They have a decently long (1,036 metres) asphalt ru
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Alfons Eigenmann’s description of Altenrhein airfield, as translated by Harald Rauch and edited by Ed Rathje:
The Altenrhein ai
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I don’t know a lot about Lausanne but hopefully that’s about to change. After a bit of a refresher in North Weald, I’ll be braving a border-crossing into Switzerland: flying to Lausa
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North Weald airfield was established in 1916 to protect London during the First World War and prides itself for bein
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I’d like to do a print of these cattle to give to the owner. But I have been really struggling to choose a shot. I started looking at them one-by-one and then I got a bit hyper with Photoshop an
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We’ve got a busy fortnight coming up - I’ve done a quick mock-up of the route we are starting to plan. The plane is parked in North Weald (in Essex) so the flying doesn’t start until
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Ever wondered what you’d do if you entered an unintentional spin? What about a flat spin, where the plane is horizontal and spinning like a top, all the while falling out of the sky.
Last autum
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“Head towards the mosque,” seems to be the start of all directions in Marrakesh. Even if you don’t ask for directions, th
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“Head towards the mosque,” seems to be the start of all directions in Marrakesh. Even if you don’t ask for directions, th
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My last flight was in a big jet with a crew and mini-bottles of wine and everything. It made for a change but I think I prefer the Saratoga overall - especially after putting together this grab-bag f
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Just a quick update to say we had a wonderful time at Birling Gap - my mother and my son both loved it, much t
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Barely home again before it’s time to go. Assuming the weather plays along, we’ll be taking the Saratoga out for an extended trip. We were initially planning an initial stop (well, if you
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Cliff shoved my shoulder. “Wake up.”
I squinted and realised it was still dark. The shutters act as my alarm clock but they weren’t due to rise for another half an hour. I ignored hi
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Jesus, look at the rocking of that plane, my stomach churns just watching the video. This was apparently shot yesterday in Hamburg. The pilot did the right thing, he went around. The person filming is
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Jesus, look at the rocking of that plane, my stomach churns just watching the video. This was apparently shot yesterday in Hamburg. The pilot did the right thing, he went around. The person filming is
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I’ve started a new feature! A somewhat eclectic but hopefully always interesting collection of blog posts, photos and news stories to do with aviation which I’ve found on the web. I’
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I’ve started a new feature! A somewhat eclectic but hopefully always interesting collection of blog posts, photos and news stories to do with aviation which I’ve found on the web. I’
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This is very cool. A
360 degree view of the A380 flight deck that allows you to swivel the camera around. I’ve only seen this sort
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This is very cool. A
360 degree view of the A380 flight deck that allows you to swivel the camera around. I’ve only seen this sort
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It’s disappointing. I had this great idea of flying to various little airfields and compiling a list of the best cakes in southern England. Enstone usually has slices of home-made carrot cake on
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This is a bit of an odd one - I need photographs of “not flying” to go with an article where I complain a lot about winter weather and being grounded.
I’ve put together a collection
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I was just pondering whether I had anything to write about when I got a research question as a comment - how exciting!
Sex Scenes at Starbucks i
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Forget the Queen Mary, I want to go cruising on one of these:
The brainchild of
Jean-Marie Massaud, the Manned Cloud is an airborne hotel that he hopes will chan
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There is a lot of speculation going on in the press and, worse, a lot of speculation being presented as fact. The words “Absolute nonsense!” have become a frequent sound in our household a
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Cliff and I had an appointment in Eastbourne, an English resort city right on the South Downs. As always, we arranged to arrive early, so that a delayed or cancelled flight wouldn’t mean chaos
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At the beginning of 2007 I made a really
useful list of things to practice when I’m, well, out of practice. And
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I’ve been meaning to post, I swear it! And I’ll make a specific New Year’s Resolution to do with this very website — it needs a redesign and a better focus. So expect to hear m
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As the plane begins its descent, you react to the pinging sound and put your seatbelt on, quickly finishing off your gin and tonic as the stewardess comes around to take your empty glass. An announcem
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I didn’t do the flight to Blackpool this time so I got to take photographs. The sun was just starting to com
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On days like this I want to have flown more than I want to fly. A single take-off and landing will bring me to a total of three this week, which means I can remain current until February with no furth
