Page 14

UK Flying - 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.1

Oscar Fox keeping good company with a Mooney and Diamond at Turweston.

July 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.2

Flying from Turweston to Leicester passing over M45 Junction of the M1

July 2006

 

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Photo. 14.3

Not a typical thing to spot in the Leicestershire countryside. Former Olympic Airways 'Jumbo' parked with its livery removed at Bruntingthorpe. Engineless, the full set of engine cowlings are just visible in the picture.

July 2006

 

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Photo. 14.4

Departing Langar 25 with the parachute aircraft parked in the old dispersal being refuelled.

July 2006

 

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Photo. 14.5

Waiting at the hold at Sibson whilst inbound Nomad returns for another load.

August 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.6

Newmarket Racecourse with grandstand behind the trailing edge

August 2006

 

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Photo. 14.7

Crosswind leg for Great Oakley. The port of Harwich visible ahead of leading edge

August 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.8

On the way home passing the former WWII, USAAF base at Sudbury. Station '174' with only four pairs of spectacles and parts of the peri-track remaining intact to give away its former identity.

August 2006

 

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.9

Inbound to Stansted courtesy of Ryanair, passing the former RAF station at Halton.

September 2006

 

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Photo. 14.10

M11 and our 737 shadow on finals

September 2006

 

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Photo. 14.11

Weathered off all weekend. A late Sunday afternoon excursion to The Wash near Kings Lynn.

September 2006

 

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Photo. 14.12

Perfect weather in November. Trip to Sackville Farms immaculate strip.

November 2006

 

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Photo. 14.13

Short finals for the gliding airfield, Husbands Bosworth.

November 2006

 

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Photo. 14.13

Elton Hall, Cambridgeshire looking resplendant in the watery autumn sunshine.

November 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.14

All planned for a trip Gloucester, but even Mr Foster wouldn't have made it in this shower of rain. Sometimes you just have to know when you have been truly beaten by the weather. More Coffee?

November 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.15

Two weeks later and en-route to Gloucester, passing near Rothwell, with farm strip. below

December 2006

 

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Photo. 14.16

Harrington, former home to the 'Carpetbaggers' operating B24 Liberators

December 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.17

Decent over the picturesque cotswolds with farms west of Winchcombe below.

December 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.18

Short finals for 27 at Gloucester

December 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.19

In the lee of the Cotswold hills, the remnants of the RAF station can be seen at Honeybourne.  The hangars that once housed Wellingtons are now part of a busy industrial estate.

December 2006

 

© Andy Clarke 

Photo. 14.20

Spot the airstrip. Lower Fields Farm top centre

December 2006

 

 

 

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