Category: Operations

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 […]

On Sunday 6th September WB922 was shoehorned into its trailer and taken abroad to Wales to fly as a part of the 634VGS MOD St Athan families day. A lot of behind the scenes work had been undertaken by 634 as St Athan lies within the Cardiff CTR and we would be operating a non […]

621 VGS Historic Flight hosted guests from 615 VGS at Kenley. With the nights drawing in fast, a two o’clock start left only five hours before sunset and with the runways being used by the Motorsports Events track day only the main grass section of the airfield available. With what wind there was blowing in […]

A video of a typical afternoon flying with 621VGS Historic Flight in August 2009 by Rob Newbold

The 26th June was a hot day with more summer Friday flying on the airfield. Al Staceys MKIII is back on site. It was rigged and flown with a number of people being converted to it. At present we have 4 aircraft tucked behind the air cadet fleet. The Prefect will be departing soon though. […]

A little disappointing from the weather point of view last Friday. We managed to set up the airfield in time for the drizzle, had a handful of launches in between showers and then got stopped by more heavy rain.On a more positive note, welcome to our latest flying syndicate member Shaun Stent, for those that […]

621 VGS Vintage Flight now named 621 VGS Historic Flight. It would appear that over the last five years we have become known, by many, as the 621 VGS Historic Flight. Mostly by those who assist us to operate such as the British Army whose airfield we use, the Air Cadets who allow us to […]

A very pleasant day last Friday with plenty of flying. We were able to keep both the Prefect and Sedbergh flying throughout the afternoon and early evening. Al Stacey popped in and flew his glider( the least we could do as we have had it nearly a year!). Pete Turner has joined the flying syndicate, […]

An excellent day today and it was like turning back the clock at 621! Daryl Mansbridge has joined the flying syndicate and re-soloed the Prefect after 35years! Andy Davey pitched up out of the blue and after a series of checks in the Sedbergh also flew the Prefect which he missed during his time at […]

For those that couldn’t make yesterday what a day to miss!!We arrived at the airfield to find 6 – 8 inches of snow, Del Kitcher immediately got his car stuck requiring Gav and Brian’s recovery services, it was quite a challenge to all just getting cars to the hangar!A tractor was borrowed!! this was the […]