Category: Air show

India Aviation Hyderabad

Bagumpet, Hyderabad the Global Stars at India Aviation. The Global Stars team are privileged to be opening India Aviation 2016 on the 16th March. Four Extras were shipped on the 14th January to travel London Gateway port to the ICD (International Container Depot) Hyderabad via Nhava Sheva, Mumbai. Tom and myself flew the show in […]

Bahrain Airshow 2016

BIAS 2016 – Air show blog 24th January Time to disassemble. Mark Brown, DHL Captain has offered to help, so with 4 persons on tools we soon get the Extra 330SC apart in the morning, a nice lunch and then load to the container in the afternoon. This time lapse video shows it all https://youtu.be/k9x6so-3ghU […]

Zhengzhou Air Show through the eyes of Clare Parkinson

World Air Carnival, China 2015. After a few days of hard work putting planes together the practice day had finally arrived. The weather had other ideas though as it was raining and the visibility was very poor. However by the time the pilots and crew had had their breakfast and been driven to the huge […]

World Air Carnival Zhengzhou, Henan, China 25-27th September 2015

The next stop for the Global Stars is the World Air Carnival in Zhengzhou, China. Approximately 800km South West of Beijing . Pilots from the Global Stars team. Rolandas Paksas-formation leader, Steve Carver-nr2 left wing, Halim Othman-nr3 right wing, Mark Jefferies-nr4 in box. Svetlana kapanina, Mikhail Mamistov, Partick Davidson and Ramon Alonso also join us. […]

EASA Approved Pyrotechnic Air Displays

Fireworks on my wings after 18 months from conception. The only fully certificated aircraft in the UK to have such approval for evening air displays. Approximately in June 2013, I started to design the concept and how to attach pyrotechnics to the wing tips of the Extra. November 2013 a submission was made to EASA. […]

Ahmedabad postscript and video

Join the circus! Life with the Global Stars combines C21st barnstorming with the spirit of a travelling circus as the British aerobatic team takes its displays to new airshow audiences around the world Dubai, Australia, Korea, South Africa, New Zealand: Mark Jefferies’ airshow CV reads like the labels on a well-travelled steamer trunk. Now the […]

Global Stars go to Ahmedabad, India

The full 4 ship Global Stars team are heading out to Ahmedabad to display for 4 days in early April. Initially we have to assemble, check and test fly. Then a few days of practice. We are expecting temperatures around 37 – 40’c, one of the hottest venues we have flown at I’m sure. 5th […]

Avalon Air Show Heros of the Sky 2015 with the Awesome Global Stars

2nd March, final day back to Perth. Port Perie overnight with a taxi at 9 am will allow us to do the last 1200+nm to Jandakot, Perth. We had refueled the night before so it was a simple task of taking the a/c from the old WW2 T2 hangar, load baggage and fire up. Departing […]