Another North Weald Meet: 17.03.2012

[Dr Jekyll]

Starting this thread on behalf of Ian (Nightrider Renault) as he's too scared to do it himself

The last one was rather good apart from the fresh weather. Its a nice little area to have a meet, some grub and a cuppa and a good 'ol chat and after last meets turnout we thought we'd do another one.

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showt...Weald-28-01-12

Same place @ the squadron club on sat 17th march, 1:30pm

If your free and you fancy it then put your name down.

1. Nightrider Renault
2. Dr Jekyll
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[Louis2002-172]

1. Nightrider Renault
2. Dr Jekyll
3. louis
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[rafmatt1984]

Bloody hell another one I cant make it to hope this gets bigger and bigger with time. And with summer coming up it should get busier and better! hopefully do one in April as well.

[wag1]

Can we try a Sunday?

[rafmatt1984]

As I see this Location is getting more and more popular with meets I thought I would post some pics taken of aircraft that are based and visit North Weald.
I will also post a link to the website that will give you more info on the airfield.

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Interesting Facts.
The Airfield was Established in 1917 to protect London From Zepplin air raids and was a key airfield in the Battle of Britain during the Second World War. The RAF stayed there all the way up to the late 70s/80s.

The Airfield was used in the film Battle of Britain.



The Airfield was turned into an American airbase for the filming of Band of Brothers in the Early noughties.





Crystal maze was filmed in one of the hangers along with various other programmes and films.

In 1971 it held the first ever Air Tattoo which then went on to become the Royal International Air Tattoo now at Fairford.
It held air shows up to the late 90s where it was finally cancelled due to increasing costs of running.




It Plays host to many organised events such as Players and Drag racing as well as Fly ins and Night shoots.
It will also be used as a Park and ride area for 3500 cars for the Olympics.

Many famous faces have kept their aircraft there including David Gilmour of Pink Floyd fame for whom I used to work for before joining the RAF and Gary Numan.

more info
http://northwealdairfield.org/


Hopefully into the summer we can get some more meets there and perhaps I can organise a visit and look around the Hanger 11 collection http://hangar11.co.uk/

[rafmatt1984]

For Those interested

http://www.air-britain.com/flyin-about.html


http://www.northwealdmotorsport.co.uk/calendar.html

http://www.northwealdairfield.org/Ca...ts/events.html

http://www.wingsnwheels.net/

For the 9th of Sept Norwegian open day they usually bring a couple of F16 fighters.

[lrj]

1. Nightrider Renault
2. Dr Jekyll
3. louis
4. lrj
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[smith197]

1. Nightrider Renault
2. Dr Jekyll
3. louis
4. lrj
5.Smith197 (down as a maybe)
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[rs 1an]

1. Dr Jekyll
2. Nightrider Renault
3. louis
4. lrj
5. Smith197 (down as a maybe)
6. Suzanne
7. Steve (Red 200, no username yet)

[Dr Jekyll]

1. Dr Jekyll
2. Nightrider Renault
3. louis
4. lrj
5. Smith197 (down as a maybe)
6. Suzanne
7. Steve (Red 200, no username yet)
8. Russel Bland

[one in a million]

1. Dr Jekyll
2. Nightrider Renault
3. louis
4. lrj
5. Smith197 (down as a maybe)
6. Suzanne
7. Steve (Red 200, no username yet)
8. Russel Bland
9. one in a million

[DIDITNO]

[QUOTE=one in a million;8439479]

1. Dr Jekyll
2. Nightrider Renault
3. louis
4. lrj
5. Smith197 (down as a maybe)
6. Suzanne
7. Steve (Red 200, no username yet)
8. Russel Bland
9. one in a million
10. Diditno if it's running by then

[Vickyx]

1. Dr Jekyll
2. Nightrider Renault
3. louis
4. lrj
5. Smith197 (down as a maybe)
6. Suzanne
7. Steve (Red 200, no username yet)
8. Russel Bland
9. one in a million
10. Diditno if it's running by then
11. Vickyx

[wag1]

Ill be there if diditno is. A williams 1 and 2 turbo would be a good sight for sore eyes

[TheEvilGiraffe]

When can I get me anorak out and wander around in hangar 11 matt ?

[rafmatt1984]

I've banged off an email to the owner hopefully he should get back to me soon. As its coming up to air show season he should be around the hanger more at the weekends getting his aircraft ready for the season. There is a Norwegian open day in September I believe and for this they usually bring over a couple of F16's so I will keep you posted.

here is a interesting video of North Weald whilst it was being used for band of brothers

[E11OOT]

always on a bloody Saturday.....

[Toms_clio]

This is a pain!!!! I was going to book a rooling road day for this day!

[Brian]

1. Dr Jekyll
2. Nightrider Renault
3. louis
4. lrj
5. Smith197 (down as a maybe)
6. Suzanne
7. Steve (Red 200, no username yet)
8. Russel Bland
9. one in a million
10. Diditno if it's running by then
11. Vickyx
12. Brian (tbc)

[Tyler.]

As always xx


1. Dr Jekyll
2. Nightrider Renault
3. louis
4. lrj
5. Smith197 (down as a maybe)
6. Suzanne
7. Steve (Red 200, no username yet)
8. Russel Bland
9. one in a million
10. Diditno if it's running by then
11. Vickyx
12. Brian (tbc)
14. Tyler