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Aerial Photography

Several recent commercial enquiries for different reasons led to nothing.  But Amazon Books came through and here are some images from 24th June - Another  dull and misty summer's day... here

Depicted are: The new bus station development at Milton keynes, cars parked on Bedford disused airfield, the Sikh Temple in Bedford, The new housing development south of Broughton in Milton Keynes, John Lewis new distribution Centre on A421 Milton Keynes, Amazon Books Junction 13 M1.

Flight Training

Just a few hours of instruction lately although during a stalling exercise in the benign Cessna 150 I experienced the not so common sudden wing drop that woke me up!  A 13 pence +VAT rise in Avgas has done nothing to inspire me.  Now at over £1.70 per litre, fuel prices are having a serious effect on the motivation of many pilots that are supposed to fly for pleasure let alone for money.  My flying on hold now until end of September.

 

Sea and Sailing for Summer 2008

This summer the intention was to spend a considerable amount of time aboard in decent weather! I finally got to my little boat for 21st June, the longest day, only to listen to Yarmouth Coastguard announcing gale warnings that also spread most of the way round the UK.  I recorded 49 knot gusts (60 mph) before I left on the Sunday expecting summer to arrive in July.  After and during a short cruise of 192 nm that was finally made during early August we still had high winds. It was 52 knots wind recorded but fortunately we were safely in port at Lowestoft by then!

Lowestoft Lifeboat Day Sea Exercise 6th July 2008 here

Lowestoft Air Display 24/25th July a few pics here

My August North Sea cruise Part 1 snapshots here

 

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Fly Blog Text 1/2008

Picture below - Easter Saturday 1700h

A day of heavy snow showers and winds from the north at 20 knots, gusting over 30 knots at times.  It was teatime before it was safe to proceed.  The reflection on the cloud is from a GPS for use in case of whiteout or nav equipment failure being close to the Heathrow zone.

Ferry flight from Cranfield to Elstree in C150 G-BCCC for the annual maintenance review.

Photo taken during south bound transit of Luton Zone looking southwest near Tring. Flying to avoid a large and gusty snow shower.

 

 

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