Category: News

Goodwood Festival Media Day…

Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing to headline at Goodwood Festival of Speed – ‘Young Guns – Born to Win’, The Moving Motor Show and Aviation Exhibition Double Formula 1 World Champion, Sebastian Vettel, will appear at the Festival of Speed in July among a mouth-watering selection of cars and motorcycles from the current and […]

Mark Jefferies – Bahrain 2012 Air Display

Mark Jefferies’ Extra 330SC – Bahrain 2012 Air Display. Once again Mark Jefferies thrilled the spectators and VIPs at the recent Bahrain International Air Show with a series of breath-taking aerobatic air displays. Mark and his team took the Extra 330sc out to Bahrain in advance of the air show and following airframe construction, checks […]

The first Extra 330LX in UK

G-GOFF is the very first Extra 330LX to arrive in the UK, sold and flown in by Mark Jefferies of YAK UK Ltd. Walter Extra and his team at Dinslaken have done an outstanding job of taking the 300L and upgrading to the 330LX. For all intents and purposes it looks just like the 300L […]

CNN interview Mark Jefferies

A 3 minute interview with Mark flying the Abarth Extra 300L and the Extra 330SC. What you don’t see is James Williams from CNN in the front seat of the 300L, after the flight he was not so chirpy and needed 30 mins sitting to recover !  G forces in excess of 4.5 will induce […]

Abarth Extra 300L in new livery

  G-JOKR sporting a stunning new livery designed by SB:MKTG. The Extra 300L is the 2 seat Extra, the leader of the pack for many years in competition and will be used for training and aerobatic experiance flights. “JOKER” will also be flown in formation with the Extra 330sc by Tom Cassells as part of the Global […]

News from Bahrain – Part 2…

Putting on a Royal performance at Bahrain International Airshow I had the privilege of the first flying show here at the Bahrain International Airshow 2012 after the Red Devils parachuted in with the national flag. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, gave his opening speech at 10:30 and I flew at 10:47 and again in […]

Bahrain International Airshow 2012 – Part 1

International air display tour starts for UK’s Mark Jefferies in Bahrain… Everything is building up to the main event; we got the a/c assembled, tested and test flown over the past couple of days – all ‘A’ OK. The landscape is stunning! The days are filled with aircraft prep, practice and meeting the other pilots, […]

Brings back memories…

The day a Sukhoi Su27 was scrambled to intercept me! Some of you may remember a few years ago I was flying back from Lithuania with Clive Davidson in an L29 when we had bad weather and ran into trouble with the Russian authorities and in particular a Su 27 that tried to out-fly us… […]