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First RV-10 To Fly In The UK
Wed 12 Nov
G-RVIO seen at Turweston shortly after painting. This was the first Vans RV-10 to fly in the UK
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6 Aug 07
Dropped in (PPR) from Shoreham to a very warm welcome. Approaching from the south can be confusing with all the avoidance areas but followed useful advice from the tower to aim for Silverstone race track and follow R24 to intercept R27 short final. Very affable man in the tower, and after a great bacon butty we were invited to look around the hangers and workshops - some very impressive machines and paint jobs.
Topped up with 60 litres and saved the £10 landing fee. A great day.
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G-AIST
15 Aug 06
Once restoration is complete this will be the oldest flying Spitfire (Quote Mick Allen!!!)... the engineering of this wing was amazing!!!
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15 Aug 06
Sahib's Aircraft
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2 Sep 05
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Turweston at 2500'
11 Jul 04
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Overhead Turweston
11 Jul 04
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13 Mar 04
Used to go on this airfield as a young person on my monkey bike when I lived in Brackley.Moved to Devon In my 20's.Now with my PPL in hand late summer 2003 this was one of the first airfields I had to visit.Firstly I notced it has changed a great deal from when I was 10,secondly I wasn't chased away.(by Albert)Quite the opposite in fact.
I uploaded more than 60 litres of fuel so my landing fee was wavered.and the fuel is quite a bit cheaper than my home airport (Exeter)so all was good there. quite a large number of my family was there to greet me and nobody minded that. Nice little tea shop.Very helpful on the planning for the return journey home.weather and wind etc.so all in all a pleasure to visit.in fact I returned the following week. and will do alot more in the future.
The only thing that court me out was the runway being quite narrow crosswind landings can be tricky also I felt I was higher than I was on approach so a little look now and again at one of those clocks and you will be fine. also hinton-in-the-hedges about 5 miles to the south-west where there is constant parachute activity especially at weekends.
Safe Flying Folks
Shaun, Devon
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Final Approach to Runway 09
23 Aug 03
Final Approach to Runway 09 (over the rally school in the foreground). The tower/parking area is to the right of the picture.
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