What do Brits do on a Saturday afternoon?
 

Why, they fly a 9 ship formation - what else!:) The largest formation many of us have been in - too turbulent at low level for a fly-by, but we managed a few pictures from within the formation. Thanks to Myke for sorting the brief!

http://s723.photobucket.com/albums/w...20July%202010/

Pete

I was thinking watch football, drink Guinness, and choke down some bangers and mash...

But formation flying sounds like fun too :D;)


Joe

Nice pics, Pete. Also impressive is the number of them that are tail draggers - looks about half your group. Recently trekked across England along the Hadrian Wall Path, and saw what may have been an RV at altitude, so hard to say. Got distracted when an RAF Tornado came screaming by the crags near Steel Rigg.
As a curiosity, how much is fuel there?

Too much !
 

Carl, Too much
Re: UK fuel prices, have a look here for an airfield avgas price league table:
http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=51535

Remember, these prices are GB Pounds per litre

1 US Gal = 3.79 Litres, 1 GBP currently = 1.52 USD

Hence, using those conversions....
a UK price of £1.60/Ltr = $8.64/US Gal

p.s. lots of grass strips in the UK tends to slightly favour the tail dragger decision. I know it did me.

Where in the UK?
 

I was trying to see if I recognized the estuary.

Also you can't have a flying club with out a nissen hut. I learned to fly at Baginton and the Coventry Aeroplane Club used to operate out of a nissen hut.

Jim Sharkey
RV-6 Down for Mag SB
Should be back in the air at the weekend :)

North Weald, Essex
 

The RV Formation School operates out of North Weald in Essex.

It's an historic old airfield with some interesting resident and visiting aircraft.

http://www.northwealdairfield.org/History/history.html

http://www.airliners.net/search/phot...mbnails=noinfo

Just noticed that the airliners.net search link has picked up a few non-North Weald photos, but most are at North Weald. Hover cursor over image for info.

Thanks for the info.

I have dreams (or fantasies) of flying my RV-6 back to the UK one day - perhaps I'll drop in :)
Jim Sharkey