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Have you got some good kit to sell?

Are you looking for an electric twin engined project?

Mosquito bargain waiting to fly .. try 'For Sale / Wanted' page!


Have you checked your diary for 2012 events?
Air Show dates available here .....
and
Radio Control Aero Model dates here .....

Share your build here....



Sunday 4th March 2012
4th KLAMC Annual Swapmeet

Doors open at 8:30am for sellers - booking essential, 9am for buyers.

Prices HELD for the 4th year running at £5 per table, £1 entry per buyer.

Hot food and drinks, and Kings Lynn Model Shop in attendance also.

Contact Andy Williamson on 01553 841803 or 07843 995067

email  ag.williamson@btopenworld.com for more details.


William Burt Centre Village Hall

Watering Lane

West Winch

King’s Lynn

Norfolk

PE 33 0JY


BOOK YOUR TABLE NOW


They're flying away fast!






 BARNEY'S INDOOR  FLY-IN dates for 2012

Rubber - Electric Powered Model Aircraft - Not exceeding 460mm / 18” Wing span

Small Electric Powered Helicopters - Sizes are limited and are at the discretion of the Organiser.


Sundays from 1pm to 6pm.

January 29th

February 26th

March 18th

Summer recess

September 30th

October 21st

November18th


 

ENTRANCE FEES:-


Flyers £4.00

Spectators 50p


Children must be over 8 years of age

and accompanied by a guardian.






All Fly-Ins are at theWilliam Burt Centre

West Winch, King's Lynn, Norfolk.


Wing Commander Ken Wallis gains permission from CAA for a one-off attempt at autogyro speed record.


Wing Commander Ken Wallis has secured special one-off permission from the Civil Aviation Authority to breach the statutory 70mph speed limit for the autogyro, allowing him to make his record bid in British skies.

The former Wellington bomber pilot, who lives in Reymerston, near Dereham, was a key figure in the post-war development of the autogyro, which he flew as Sean Connery’s stunt double in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice.

Between 1968 and 2002 he set 34 world records for speed, circuit and altitude feats, many of which still stand – including the 129mph top speed recorded for a 3km flight in the tiny rotor-powered aircraft.

The record was initially set in the 1970s before the restrictions were introduced, and Wing Cmr Wallis said he had struggled since then to gain dispensation to exceed it and extend his world-beating exploits.

But after a fellow pilot wrote to CAA head Dame Deirdre Hutton appealing for help, he has received a reply clearing the runway for his next attempt which, subject to aircraft and medical examinations, could happen in May.

“It was a wonderful surprise,” he said. “She says that my efforts are well recognised and that there is no reason I shouldn’t be able to do it.

“There are a lot of people supporting me, saying I should do it. It has become a bit of a joke really. It is my birthday in April so if I break this record in May I can do it as an old man of 96 rather than a young man of 95. I am still quite happy flying, and all you really need to do in an autogyro is sit in it and open the throttle.”

Wing Cmdr Wallis, who owns 20 home-made autogyros, said he hopes to make the record attempt in the same aircraft which already holds the record.

“I know it can do better,” he said. “129mph was done in adverse conditions with a lot of wind blowing. I know that if I started tomorrow I could make an aircraft that could go faster but at this age I have got to gather the enthusiasm to start again.”

Last year, as a DVD called Ken Wallis: Born to Bond was launched to celebrate his life and escapades, the pilot said after flying for 74 years he “should know better” than to make another record attempt.

But last night he said his motivation was simply an extension of his love of flying.

“For me I just like flying around, I like taking aerial photographs, and I just want to improve on the record.”

Story by Chris Hill - EDP



Click on the poster and adjust to Full Screen HD1080
The RED TAILS of WWII
Coming to a screen near you in
January 2012

HISTORY OF THE MEN WHO INSPIRED THE RED TAILS FILM

In 1939, the government began establishing flight schools at colleges around the nation but refused to do so at any of the Black colleges believing black men didn’t have the calibre to be fighter pilots.

But with mounting pressure from black newspapers, pressure groups and a few sympathetic government leaders including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor it was decided to try the “Tuskegee Experiment”. So on July the 19th 1941 a flight school was established at the historic Tuskegee University in Alabama

In June 1943, the Tuskegee Airmen entered into combat over North Africa. The airmen should courage, skill and ddication in combat. They flew more than 15,000 sorties, completing over 1,500 missions during the war.
They never lost an escorted bomber to enemy fighters. No other escort unit could claim such a record.
When the war ended, the Tuskegee Airmen returned home with 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, Legions of Merit and the Red Star of Yugoslavia. The group was disbanded in May 1946 but its success contributed to blacks men and women been fully integrated into the military.





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Are you ready to take the next step to gain a BMFA Certificate?

Paul Morris receives his BMFA 'A'  Helicopter Flight Certificate from Examiner, Ivan Jordan







Click on the Photo above for your own Duxford Airshow review!



FOR  SALE!
Hawker Demon re-built by retired RAF veteran
from this collection of scrap!


It was meant to be a modest little project to keep Squadron Leader Howell Davies occupied when he retired from the RAF. Over the next 18 years, building a 1930's biplane in the same way generations of boys have constructed Airfix kits became his passion. Involving a worldwide search for parts and over 35,000 hours of restoration work.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047616/Airfix-kit-biplane-built-RAF-veteran-sale-1-4m.html#ixzz1aSezQH9n






KLAMC supports the East Anglian Air Ambulance
East Anglian Air Ambulance

The East Anglian Air Ambulance receives no Government or National Lottery funding and have to raise over £4 million a year to keep their two air ambulances flying and stocked with advanced medical equipment. This equates to approximately £10,000 per day to run the charity and service. They can only do this with the support, dedication and generosity of members of the general public.

The aircraft, Anglia One and Anglia Two, provide a 365-day-a-year emergency service across Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire. On average they fly four to five times missions a day. The journey by air to the nearest A&E department takes no more than 13 minutes from anywhere in the region. The high level of emergency training undertaken by their doctors and paramedics combined with the speed of their arrival makes the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) a real life saver.

Since the service began in 2000 over 10,000 incidents have been attended and touched the lives of many thousands of people.


Flying Legends 2011- Click on the P38 / View some of the best photographs of the best warbirds flying in the UK! Loss of P51D! Both pilots safe!




Roydon Aircam - Photos by Paul

 

 

 

 

 

 


This is a re-built PA-18 from 1930's



 

Let's get this show in the air!


 

“Our Wall” a Battle of Britain poem

by Flight Lieutenant William Walker,

who flew spitfires in 616 Squadron.

 

"Behind each name a story lies

of bravery in summer skies.

Though many brave unwritten tales

were simply told in vapour trails."

 

This poem is on a plinth at the Battle of Britain memorial which stands in England on the white cliffs at Capel le Ferne between Dover and Folkstone.  The memorial includes a wall with the names of those who flew, and a statue by Harry Gray of a seated airman looking out over the sea towards France, surrounded by the badges of the Allied squadrons and other units that took part. William Walker’s poem “Our Wall” is a tribute to them all.

 

"never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" Prime Minister of the period, Sir Winston Churchill famously stated.

 

The 'Battle of Britain' was for this country, the most crucial battle of the 20th century that certainly defeated an imminent German invasion and defeat! In total during the period from July 10th to October 31st 1940, some 544 British and Allied airmen lost their lives, 422 were wounded and 1,547 aircraft destroyed during the period. The Germans suffered 2,698 casualties and lost 1,887 aircraft. 



KLAMC receive a warm welcome from

Wing Commander Ken Wallis MBE

to Autogyro haven!

Read Jane Fryer's report in the Saturday Mail 

and go to Club Visits on the left of this page for our very own photographic report!


For a good read, click on the LYNN FLYER LIBRARY menu bar to the left!

It's warming up and the chance of rain is slight but will it be too windy?

                   Check the local flying site weather here - WEATHER


 

King's Lynn, England
Updated 28 January 2012 13:00
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