Hello everyone,
I am in Shropshire in England, visiting a friend. On the 25th of March we went to Sleap airfield and there was a lot of local flying activity.
Sleap is pronounced [slape] here, and not like [sleep].
I am attaching an image of a YAK-11 warbird that was flying there and will in time, when I get back home to Greece next week, I will upload many photos.
There were many other a/c. A Bristol Bulldog in late RAF scheme, two Buecker 131's in Spanish Air Force colors that did some aerobatics and some formation flying, and many small GA aircraft (Cessnas, Pipers, a Moony Bravo, a Slingsby). We had greatt clear sunny weather and the flying was wonderful. There is a local aerocub and a museum also. The museum holds many a/c parts recovered from wrecks in the area.
Sleap was a very active WWII station in the war, and twice Stirliong bombers crashed into its control tower, killing two WAAF's ( women) and some other people serving there.
This YAK-11 did a high speed low altitude run near us and had a great engine sound.
More later.
Nick
PS: A mixup has happened. I posted this from my firend Barrie's PC in the UK and under his username, Baslar, instead of under mine, which is Jinx. If a moderator sees this, please transfer the post to my name... Apologies
I am in Shropshire in England, visiting a friend. On the 25th of March we went to Sleap airfield and there was a lot of local flying activity.
Sleap is pronounced [slape] here, and not like [sleep].
I am attaching an image of a YAK-11 warbird that was flying there and will in time, when I get back home to Greece next week, I will upload many photos.
There were many other a/c. A Bristol Bulldog in late RAF scheme, two Buecker 131's in Spanish Air Force colors that did some aerobatics and some formation flying, and many small GA aircraft (Cessnas, Pipers, a Moony Bravo, a Slingsby). We had greatt clear sunny weather and the flying was wonderful. There is a local aerocub and a museum also. The museum holds many a/c parts recovered from wrecks in the area.
Sleap was a very active WWII station in the war, and twice Stirliong bombers crashed into its control tower, killing two WAAF's ( women) and some other people serving there.
This YAK-11 did a high speed low altitude run near us and had a great engine sound.
More later.
Nick
PS: A mixup has happened. I posted this from my firend Barrie's PC in the UK and under his username, Baslar, instead of under mine, which is Jinx. If a moderator sees this, please transfer the post to my name... Apologies