Hi All Some snaps from a rain affected Barton open day / fly in on Sunday... Despite the poor weather there was still a reasonable showing of visitors & a good number of locals turned out for a few circuits... A few snaps of another forumite having a go in the Tiger are at the end... G-AXDI Cessna 1...

Hi Rich, you're certainly getting some through-put of stuff at Humberside at the minute! Lovely to see snaps of them

Cheers,

Wow. That's quite a selection. i've never heard of such a gathering before! Do you know the name of the expo? It's called simply "Hillhead" followed by the year, it's hosted every 2 years so the next event will be in 2014 how on Earth did you find out details for that event? I was actually sent an ...

Evening All The below helicopters were visiting for the main Quarrying, Construction & Recycling expo in the UK (maybe even Europe?) today at a dis-used quarry just south of Buxton... http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7264/7409759052_b3634af46c_b.jpg G-BKZI by QSY on-route , on Flickr http://farm8.stati...

beefsteak wrote:A couple of Augusta 109s today

Shame M-EMLI didn't go in Barton like G-CDWY did!

Nice set of snaps there We hear him doing para-dropping all the time from here in South Manchester!

Mike wrote:Cracking shots, where's the Alouette based chaps ?

I think it lives at a PLS in East Yorkshire

Hi Rich

What a stunner Do you have any idea how long it's operating out of HUY for?

Cheers

Hi Rich, these Cheshire Helicopters machines sure get around the country! They're based at a private site just north of the 05R threshold at Manchester

Cheers

I'll go with this one this month...


HA-PPC by QSY on-route, on Flickr

Afternoon All This little beauty dropped in this morning for some JetA1 before heading to apparent mud bath that is Cholmondeley this weekend! A very very smart looking example indeed :thumb: Approaching the airfield from the North.... http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7224/7385500664_7b6ba25103_b.jpg H...

You get used to it up here in Manchester

Hi Keith, yet another aircraft flying or JCB! They've got a rather nice fleet going now

Evening Reggie

G-LEEJ is our based Hughes, although there was another visiting Hughes (G-HUES) in for fuel this evening. Also G-FULM went in to the heliport this evening

Cheers

Hi beefstake

This Hughes dropped in to Barton this evening to uplift some JetA1

Cheers

Morning Reggie, we heard the Cub call inbound & thought 'Ohh we fancy a snap of that' & when we arrived a nice gent on reception said the Pitts would be inbound shortly

And I think we've had out summer with that week of good weather a few weeks ago!

Cheers,

Evening All Here's the rotary spoils from today... It's certainly still raining! http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7233/7354211464_8f2414840d_z.jpg G-CPAO by QSY on-route , on Flickr http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8150/7354211322_288807b0f7_b.jpg G-LVDC by QSY on-route , on Flickr http://farm8.staticflic...

Evening All Despite some very poor weather we managed to do pretty well for visitors, there were in fact more visitors than based movements during the day! Firstly the 'Trig Aerobatic Team' diverted in from Blackpool due to poor weather, this poor weather had reached Barton by the time I shot the pi...

I think this one qualifies as a good excuse to dig this shot out.... Taken at Nyíregyháza in Hungary where the aircraft are used for spares to keep other AN-2's going


AN-2's by QSY on-route, on Flickr

Hi Martin

They departed Barton with the plan to head to Halfpenny Green for some lunch I believe, obviously they ended up staying for a little longer!