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chesterflyer
16th Jan 2012, 21:51
This years Lancashire Landing Beach landing event will again take place on the Lancashire Riviera with golden sands and lots of bikinis on show!
For a fun event with Fish and Chips and all the fun at the beach you can register to attend on our website see
LANCASHIRE LANDING FLY IN - HOME (http://lancashirelanding.weebly.com/index.html)
Its all for a great cause as well!
Hope to see you there! :ok::ok::ok:
chesterflyer
24th Feb 2012, 18:17
73 aircraft registered to attend this years event already.
thing
24th Feb 2012, 19:40
Due to the nature of this event we have to be very flexible when it takes place. Not only do we have to have good weather for the aircraft but we also need the tide to be out
That made I larf. :)
Mariner9
25th Feb 2012, 08:40
Great day last year but by-eck, it were cold on t' beach.
Hope to be there again this year :ok:
chesterflyer
26th Mar 2012, 19:16
140 aircraft registered so far and our first go is only three weeks away on the 14th-15th April. Give the tarmac a rest and come and give it a go for a great fun day out! ;)
Sir George Cayley
27th Mar 2012, 19:24
I'd commend this to the forum. To land safely on a beach is a rare event and not many pilots get to do it. Unless you fly for Loganair and operate into Barra.
Not sure about the Bikini thing. Lancashire lasses are not known for being stick thin.
Wonder what the biggest a/c to land there is?
SGC
chesterflyer
28th Mar 2012, 07:25
SGC,
I have it on good authority that it was used during WW2 to land all sorts of a/c there and that there used to be some hangars on the shoreline. In essence you could land the space shuttle there with loads of room to spare.
The sand is quite hard and only gets softer if there has been a lot of rainfall:)
Shaggy Sheep Driver
28th Mar 2012, 08:19
Would echo Sir George's comments. Final for Knott End in a 172 a few years ago here:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/GZK6NK/LbaseforKnottEndVSCflyingGO.jpg
The other place you can land on a beach is Southport, if you fly into the air show. Me with elder daughter in the back:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/GZK6NK/SLVL0410res.jpg
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