I was lucky enough to get a tour around the Northolt Ops Room during its restoration after an Airspace Working Group meeting in the Officers Mess and was really impressed with the attention to detail. The film is a moving tribute to the Poles. At North Weald we also had Polish pilots serving, some o...

Aerostars https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Aerostars_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Norwegian T133 Silver Star at North Weald https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/T33_4_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Red Star Rebels L29 Defin at North Weald...

Well the oldest British airworthy aircraft is over 100 years old and still doing what it was built for! https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Blackburn_1080.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds AN-2s are still great workhorses https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/An_2...

North Weald – Firefox, Norwegian F16 and Gnat at sunset https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Firefox_Chute.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/F16_Chute_2.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...

More from North Weald – Singapore Strikemaster https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Strikemaster_Pass_1080.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force Bulldog https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Line_Astern_1000.jpg Indian Gnat F1 arrivi...

More from North Weald. Sadly the Yak 52 (and two friends) is no longer with us. https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/YakR_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Yak_Pass_2_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://host...

Haven't got many FJ pictures, but I did take these back in 2006 on the Friday before RIAT when I stopped at Fairford after leaving my parachutes for repacking at SES in Kemble https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Mirage_1.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobuc...

Norwegians at North Weald https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Nanna_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Nanna_3_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds DC-6 at Coventry https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRide...

More from North Weald https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Wing_Fold_1000.jpg https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Fury_3_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Sea_Fury_9_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bou...

RAF blue not RFC khaki



Spitfire PR pilot Jimmy Taylor at North Weald

I bought a bottle of Dettol last week, which I used to strip the paint off some old Britains lead soldiers for a project!

G-BGOR at North Weald



The Hangar 39 Beech 18 departing after restoration

Norwegians at North Weald 2012

A Wildcat at North Weald https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v165/YakRider/Wildcat_4_1000.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Back in 2001 I flew a Grumman AA5 into Duxford on the day after Flying Legends and got parked at the end of a line of Grumman fighters including the Wildcat and Hellcat....

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...