BMAA Spamfield 2014 - Early results put Flex-wing arrivals ahead!

Puppy Dog

Colin, (and his hair) made the sea crossing to the HMfC overseas base! Cup-o-T and a bun! It's one of his first flights since october and so a bit of flying and rigging practice will come in handy before he has his final qualifications are complete next week end.

Conversation in the club house is of the crash at Cork this week. Writing this blog my attention is diverted by a loud chap discussing how "stupid" the pilot must have been, a nice touch as the pilot lost his life along with passengers, 6 in all perished. He of coarse would not this same mistake. I must thank Mr Hindsight for sharing his wizdom and insight to the collected assembly of his non flying friends, I am sure it made him feel better about himself, although it would make no difference to how people fly, why these things happen and of coarse how the familys of Jordi Gola Lopez, Andrew Cantle will feel.

"Sadown" at Sandown

A great days flying with friends a first in a long time, we flew back to Sandown to find a field with no radio and no welcome, a landing fee and a cupper in the portacabin was in stark contrast to Jazz in "The Aviator bar" and a great lunch surrounded by hundreds of flyers.

It seems if the locals are to be believed that the subdivition of the land and runway between Glen Collins and a company called Wharflands in part owned by David Mellor means that effectivly this airfield is missing its heart. That heart that Dick Steel had given it over the last 5 years now lies broken.

Did "The Aviator" have an accident, when it burnt to the ground? or was that a mishap, know to a few? We will never know for sure, but one thing that happened that night, the heart of Sandown airfield died.