Some from North Weald Emergency services exercise simulating an aircraft force landing on a road and catching fire, causing a large pile-up. The Airfield fire crew were participating... https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Scenario.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Brendan O'Brie...

Dutch B-25 at North Weald with orange banana in nose

Brendan doing a trailer landing practice



Blériot at Shuttleworth

Firefox at North Weald

Vampire low pass at North Weald

There was a recent news item that a lot got caught in storms over the Med, so numbers will sadly be down this year. There weren't that many around last year either.

Nice to see TEN G out and about. It used to be based at North Weald

Nice to see some shots from the Southern ORP. Shooting on Runway 02 further down isn't easy because of the light.

It was my final day at North Weald on Friday, as I have now retired after ten years on the Ops Team, so will be looking forward to your coverage Dan to keep me up to date!

The Epping & Ongar Round Table held a fireworks display at North Weald Airfield on Saturday 2 November. After a stormy day, the wind did drop a bit for the show, although it was still spotting with rain. The shots were taken from the top of the Tower with 3 second exposures at f8, ISO 200. The w...

Left to right: Pete Walker (Chief Engineer), Mark, Pancho, Rob Tierney (who was involved with the original recovery and restoration), Peter and Bill

Lt Col Francisco 'Pancho' Ramirez last saw his UH-1 Huey helicopter at Port Stanley in 1982. On last Thursday (10 October) he was flying in it again at North Weald.... Back in March we were contacted by former Royal Navy Sea King pilot Bill Fewtrell with an enquiry about who operated the UH-1 Huey h...

A Puma helicopter – XW224 – from 230 Squadron at RAF Benson and two Chinooks – ZK559 and ZK560– from 7 Squadron at RAF Odiham, callsign 'Alien Formation', came in for a brief visit on Sunday 13 October to drop off some passengers after performing a flypast over the NFL game at Tottenham. The movemen...

Nice selection of shots from the day. I spent a frustrating morning waiting at the Northern End with a long list of timed PPR arrivals, which either cancelled or just didn't come due to the weather. I think only eight eventually made it in out of over twenty due.

It's ex-North Weald

Congratulations on completing an outstanding project. I was fortunate to have a tour around the control room when it was still a building site, after an LUAWG meeting at Northolt, and it was impressive even then.

This is not the first time that Gatwick has been affected by drones. Last July is was shut twice. Look at the NATS video to see the chaos caused then. m I am a member of the London and Stansted Local Airspace Infringement Teams as part of my duties at North Weald, so I am aware of the variety of inf...

I needed to get a specific shot of the F1 for the Airfield newsletter, and being on the other side of the runway at least I had the sun behind me. Not sure what bang seats are used in the F1. The two-seaters have Folland seats, which are based on Saab ones rather than MB. As it was just a taxi run C...

That Mustang shot is superb!

Then on to the night shoot. The Herts Air Ambulance returned while this was going on and lit up the Gnats with its searchlight. I've only done a couple of other night shoots, so it was a bit of a learning curve! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/YakRider/September%202018/Night%203-1000_zpseqxcy...

I managed to get over to the Apron to catch the last of the late afternoon light and sunset http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/YakRider/September%202018/Day%201-1000_zpscdutq0ga.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/YakRider/September%202018/Day%202-1000_zpssll4iifr.jpg http://img.photobuck...

There were several arrivals during the day on Frioday for the Jet Fest and night photo shoot. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/YakRider/September%202018/JP%201-1000_zpsrs72yiva.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/YakRider/September%202018/JP%202-1000_zpsazn5pw8g.jpg http://img.photobuck...

SUNDAY VISITORS PLEASE NOTE: Anyone intending to come to the Jet Fest on Sunday needs to be aware that the Airfield is also hosting the Players car show at Weald Aviation. This will involve about 5000 boy racers, who, from past experience over many years, will not treat the Airfield with respect. Yo...

These are their remainikng displays

29 Aug RAF Odiham Family’s Day
1-2 September Bournemouth (2x Vamp)
1-2 September Porthrush (MiG)
22-23 Sept Duxford, then back to Norway from there

On Saturday the Norwegian two-seat Vampire and MiG 15 UTI departed for Dunsfold. They have now left us for the rest of their display season in the UK. The Vampire departed early morning http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/YakRider/August%202018/Vampire%201-1000_zpsk5zt2ne0.jpg http://img.photobuc...

Dan got some shots at the weekend. I was working on Tuesday when G-VIVM was out again for a local sortie and some circuits. It has been very active recently. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/YakRider/August%202018/JP%201-1000_zpshwitgwgu.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/YakRider/Augu...