The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale organized its first World Aerobatic Championships at Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1960. Ever since then national teams and individuals have been competing against each other by performing complex aerobatic sequences inside a designated cubic ‘box’ of sky (each side is 1000 metres long, with a safety margin of 500 metres on each […]
Air show Champion Mark Jefferies hosted the Guinness World record for the largest poster ever printed. 55 meters by 60 meters weighing approximately 2 tonnes 30 persons were required to roll out the banner advertising Anthony Dsouza’s “BOSS” Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar plays the BOSS. The film also stars Mithun Chakraborty, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao […]
Having flown a display over the promenade at Rhyl last weekend where there was a crowd of over 50,000 this weekend it’s IWM Duxford and The Duxford Air Show on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th September I’ll be in the Extra 330sc this time although I have good memories of flying YAKs there – I’m looking […]
It’s a busy weekend for the Mark Jefferies Air Display team and the Extra 330sc – one of the events we will be performing at is the Castle Hill Car Festival down in Devon with the air display at midday. Mark added, “This event is part of the busy display season for us and I’m […]
ABARTH Extra 330sc AT CARFEST NORTH 2013 This year CarFest North will visit Oulton Park Race Circuit in Cheshire – a stunning setting and one of the UK’s best race tracks… a real driver’s track which will see a fabulous selection of vehicles including motorcycles for the first time – sights and sounds provided by […]
Displaying Down Under Mark Jeffries, former UK Unlimited Aerobatic Champion recalls his recent trip to Oz to display a new Extra 330LX at the Avalon Air Show When the phone call came, towards the end of 2012, it all seemed so very simple! Fly 20 hours on a big bird to Perth, Western Australia, collect […]
Mark Jefferies is performing one of his awesome air displays at the Auto Italia ‘Summertime Classics’ at Stanford Hall on Sunday July 7th A new event for classic vehicles, including cars, bikes and commercials, of all marques and nationalities. Centrally located in Leicestershire, Stanford Hall offers easy access from the M1 and A1M motorway. This superb […]
“Sally B17” In the autumn of 2011, I received a call from Peter Kuypers chief pilot for Elly Sallingboe’s B17 of the “Sally B” preservation group asking if I would like to become a temporary flight crew member. A question like “is the Pope Catholic” 🙂 The brief was to be at Duxford for crew […]
The Farnborough International Airshow 2012 is ready for take-off! Bring family and friends to the biggest event of its kind in the world. Meet the pilots and talk to ground crew as you walk through static displays and get up close to an unrivalled gathering of aircraft and ground-breaking aviation technology. Take your place on […]
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