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colinhunn
17th May 2023, 17:04
https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/23520866.great-yarmouth-heliport-reopen-new-management/
Good to see a closed aviation facility reopening for aviation purposes if only modest beginnings.
Asturias56
18th May 2023, 08:12
Gawd!
that brings back memories......................
Barling Magna
18th May 2023, 09:19
It certainly does. My first ever flight was on an Auster of Anglian Air Charter Ltd in 1962. It was just a pleasure flight consisting of a short circuit over the sea and back to land. The Auster was G-AKOT. A few weeks after my flight the aircraft tragically crashed on just such a pleasure flight killing all four souls on board. I never discovered this until decades later. Fortunately my mother never did learn of the crash or I would never have been allowed to fly again!
The next time I flew in an Auster it performed a rapid ground loop on landing, overstressed itself and was written off. It overstressed me too, so I made a point of avoiding Austers after that.
Great to see North Denes back in business. I hope they will start pleasure flights again. But not using Austers.....