Author: HF JR

Not quite the next Friday but thanks to being unable to fly cadets due to a major power and water cut to the hangar we were able to fly the Saturday. Extremely low temperatures left a little snow on the airfield with the runways and taxiways thick with ice ( bought back memories of a […]

Hi all,Well all I can say is what a fantastic week! Monday – Wind 210 / 15kts cu cloudbase 4000′. We all arrived to lovely hot summer weather, Rick Fretwell’s SHK aka ‘the V bomber’ was rigged along with DNE the ‘621 syndicate’ Astir and these along with the Prefect and Sedbergh were towed to […]

Guy has very kindly agreed to sponsor the diesel needs of the Historic Flight and last Friday was able to visit Hullavington to have a look at where his fuel is going. After watching proceedings for a while Guy and I strapped into the Sedbergh and although the soaring day was coming to an end […]

Yep, after being on site for only a week the Prefect has landed out! Our intrepid OC launched into a booming sky ( just look at the photo!) After visiting Castle Coombe ( maybe the Prefect had designs on chasing the Pucklechurch Viking !!!) the conditions weren’t kind for the return. A text book field […]

After almost a year the MKIII has been de-rigged awaiting transfer back to Keevil. In its place the lovely Prefect has returned. Last Friday saw the most people I have seen on an Historic Flight Friday flying which was excellent to see, with visitors from Keevil, 625, Hullavington Barracks and 621 past and present providing […]

Day out at Hullavington with 621 Historic Flight Had the most fantastic day out yesterday at the invitation of Adam and his team at the 621 Historic Flight. I arrived at Hullavington and there was a Mk3 by the origional (but far to clean!) red and white checkered caravan and a Barge just going up […]

Unfortunately due to a volcano in Iceland the 621 Air Cadet Easter course had to be cut short. This enabled the ash resistant historic flight to have a busy few days. The Grasshopper was given an airing on the Thursday evening with the MKIII and Sedbergh having a good few flights on the Friday. Saturday […]

A very pleasant day was had by a few on Friday with the Sedbergh floating around in some early spring sunshine. Jim, Shaun and Daryl all got current again, Al popped over with the Bannerdown tug to say hello and gave the Sedbergh a lift on his way back to Keevil ( all smiles from […]

The recent January snowfalls grounded the GRP Viking gliders at Hullavington. Not so the sturdy, wooden, 60 year old Slingsby “Barge” which flew again giving pilots and passengers spectacular open air views of Wiltshire in white and a real feel for the sub-zero air temperature! “Home of 621VGS” by Mike Newton “WB922 in the snow” […]

A low cloud Saturday morning in December with broken winch and no caravan left us with no way to launch our usual Viking gliders for the weekend and looking for other ways to get airbourne.So we borrowed a Robin for the morning! You just can’t keep a good VGS on the ground Unless there is […]