Ancient Wisdom
Jun14

Ancient Wisdom

Aviation is full of wise sayings. Some of them are useful. Darragh Owens explores the aviation proverbs we like to quote to each other Besides promoting other changes in our skills, attitudes and knowledge, learning to fly requires substantial additions to our everyday vocabulary. During the process of becoming an aviator we expand the range of our natural language, to absorb glossaries of unfamiliar terms: including various ground...

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Blackbushe is 75
Jun12

Blackbushe is 75

Not looking a day over, well, 50 anyway, Blackbushe Airport to the west of London is celebrating its 75th birthday and to mark the occasion an anniversary festival is being held at the airfield on the 1st and 2nd July. Although virtually all airfields of any size have some sort of story to tell, Blackbushe has a particularly rich history and a more important place in the history of post-war civil aviation in the UK than many will...

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Aviation Skills Partnership update Aviation Skills Manifesto
Jun12

Aviation Skills Partnership update Aviation Skills Manifesto

Business leaders, MPs, academics, educators, trainers and academics gathered at the House of Commons recently to mark the first anniversary of the Aviation Skills Partnership’s (ASP) ‘Manifesto for Aviation Skills 2016-2021’, which aims to provide solutions to the issue of how to supply enough talented and skilled workers for the growing aviation industry. The event also marked the fourth birthday of ASP who say that the need for a...

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Stratford-on-Avon District Council reaffirms commitment to Wellesbourne Airfield
Jun10

Stratford-on-Avon District Council reaffirms commitment to Wellesbourne Airfield

Stratford-on-Avon District Council’s Cabinet has confirmed the District Council’s commitment to safeguarding the future of Wellesbourne Airfield. Wellesbourne has been under threat from a proposed housing development, and last year the owners of the airfield moved to evict the resident aviation companies on Wellesbourne airfield, including around six flying schools, and demolish the buildings vacated. The local council...

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Aero Expo 2017
Jun07

Aero Expo 2017

The UK’s General Aviation showcase event, Aero Expo, returned to Wycombe Air Park this year, after being held for the previous seven years at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire. Despite some aircraft departure and car parking issues, which perhaps were the result of underestimating its own popularity, the show ran successfully, bolstered by flyable weather and a healthy order book which, according to event host Sean Brown, topped...

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