School Children Visit Flying Club!

This week 22 Sapperton C of E Primary School children visited Kemble Flying Club to learn something more about flying which is in their curriculum. The visit included time with dy on everything from Ikarus and Elmer through the sheep, the duck and the cockerel on the first balloon flight in 1783, past the Wright brothers to hang gliding, paragliding and modern microlight flying. They also had a short slide show on flying in Nepal and Africa so were taken from the highest glacier in the World to the rainforest and the desert! Amy and Will from Cotswold Airport showed the children around Negus the Jumbo Jet which somehow included some Swiftie music and some dancing!  So, thank you to them and also to Jim and Roger from the Britannia Society who showed off their aircraft and allowed all the children in the cockpit. And, thanks to the children for their thank you card. 

DC-6 Flies through Mach loop!

In the end I just had to share this – remember the DC-6 that flew through the Mach Loop?  Well, dy was on board!!!

Check it out on Youtube, @DafyddPhillips ‘Flying Bulls DC-6 Flies through Mach Loop’

It was a huge pleasure as the Airfield Manager at Llanbedr hosting the Red Bulls team and their amazing aircraft for this historic moment.

Georgina Brown

Dursley’s Parsonage 53 restaurateur Georgina Brown smashes flying in first lesson with dy! After take off on 08 at Kemble, Georgina was soon working on effect of controls as we flew over the Cotswold Water Park and after heading over Cirencester we explored straight and level and co-ordinating stick and rudder.

In a short break from training, Georgina flew over the restaurant in Parsonage Street, Dursley and got some pics. We had a great flight back over the Westonbirt Arboretum and Malmesbury and Georgina was so thrilled she is booking more lessons.

Fuel Tank on the Nynja

Our new Nynja (in build August) will have wing tanks. As seen here on display at Popham. The mod not only provides for a total 116litres fuel but it moves the c of g forward giving place for a 20kg luggage box where one of the original fuel tanks went. The small tank shown provides reassurance a wing tank air lock isn’t going to catch someone out as well as clear evidence when down to your last 16 litres. Thanks to all the friendly Marshalls today making life easy! Dy