Women on the Wing

I haven’t posted about flying for a while as we’ve been so focused on the build, but I’ve been doing as much of it as time, money and weather will permit! Today it was pretty windy but otherwise lovely and

After an incredible trip across Northern Europe in May ’16, our flying suffered a major setback when ‘YC’s propeller governor failed while J was on approach to Belgrade in July. J was planning to visit a friend who is an

The final few legs of our European tour were somewhat more compressed – partly because we were now back in territory we have explored before, and partly because we had a wedding to be at in central Germany that was

Continuation of our May 2016 tour of Europe took us to Norway next. Our full route is below: From Akureyri, northern Iceland, we flew south with a decent tailwind and returned to Vagar on the Faroes for re-fuelling before setting

Since we first made it to the Faroes in 2015, we’d been itching to see if we could make the trip across the second North Atlantic stretch from there to Iceland. Short answer: On a good day, we can! On

We first visited the Faroe Islands in 2015, when we were lucky enough to go there to fly whilst viewing the total solar eclipse. It was a fairly last-minute trip (as crazy as that sounds) as a friend of ours

We’d always said that when I finally passed my PPL, we’d take the TB-10 on a tour of Europe. Flying is such an important part of our lives and future plans, so me getting qualified was a key piece of the puzzle.

We both had itchy wings this Wednesday afternoon, having been unable to get up in the air at the weekend due to icing. We have been meaning to visit Lee-on-Solent (also known as Daedalus) airfield for a while now. Built

Today was one of those days when you don’t achieve your goal but you’re exceptionally glad that you tried! We were intending to fly out to North Weald to meet up and compare notes with another person building the same type

I often get asked what is the high point of the flying trips we’ve done to date. There are so many to choose from – we’re very lucky!  If I had to choose, the most special would be a trip in

This trip was the happy result of a slightly odd request of the type that could only happen when you own a plane! My sister studied Archaeology and was doing some research into shell middens. She had discovered that there were

Great Massingham has a special place both of our hearts. For J, this is because it’s the first unlicensed airfield he ever visited after gaining his PPL. For me, it’s more about the fact that the nearby village has an awesome pub

I come from a little town called Lewes in East Sussex. Lewes does 5th November like nowhere else in the world! For one night a year, the town is aflame for Bonfire celebrations. If you haven’t been, you should! Much more

It’s common for us to have a (sometimes not-especially-orderly) queue of friends and family who want to come flying! Whilst not everyone who has tried it is a fan of small aircraft trips, we know plenty of people who are or would like

Following our trip there in March, we’d hoped to go back up to Shetland in July to see the puffins during their breeding season. J had just returned from an extended business trip itching to get up in the sky, so