Flight in “Sally B17” over Cambridgeshire
“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 […]
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… […]
Extra shipping…
On the way to the Bahrain International Airshow Well, the ‘Abarth’ Extra 330sc is apart for the shipping to Bahrain, loading on 23rd November and sailing on the 28th. MJ with an engineer will travel on the 12th January to Bahrain to assemble for flying in the Bahrain International Air Show – all being well the […]
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