PHOTO of the DAY...

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"Photo of the Day"
22/11/20



Attending a legal and approved event at RHS Wisley last night the level of traffic on the roads seemed similar to a Saturday evening in the 'other life', you know, the one that ended around February this year when an Englishman's home became his prison. One appreciates the rules of lockdown, but the dire restrictions on flying training compared to how life appears to be treating the lockdown with a degree of laxness on the roads makes the need to close aerodromes somewhat OTT? Regardless, December 2nd is not far away, the Government will be announcing new and stricter Tier restrictions in a day or so...

Moving on to the days of long ago...




Something to look at over your Cornflakes. The Blackbushe structures as portrayed by Air Ministry drawing HB244, scale 1/2500. The dotted line visible around most of the airfield indicates the thresholds of airfield property, massively extensive compared with what we have usable today!! Without going into further details, the plan serves to show what a splendid and well equipped Blackbushe once was and deepens the irony of the contempt employed by parties who are moved to silence her while highlighting what a valuable aerodrome remains if only exalted bureaucracy would acknowledge the fact.




Saints be praised!! Blackbushe lives, smaller but she's still Blackbushe!!!




Blackbushe 'east', "cancelled" by the local Parish Council's blitzkreig policy.




The Terminal area with the A30 that had always dissected Blackbushe north from south..




Gone west.... The south western extremity from pre 1960 days. This was the land of Eagles, the home of Eagle Airways, one of the UK's most outstanding independent airline of the day and one who grew up to maturity while living at home...Blackbushe, naturally.




We give you "Blackbushe Airport".. the way we were.


Hopefully a cash strapped County Council who once again will try their best to squash Blackbushe at the Court of Appeal in a couple of months time will think twice as to what they are doing in attempting to grind Blackbushe Airport in the ground..? Legal costs will be vast, and if Hampshire County Council have their way the nation will lose an outstanding opportunity for a new and necessary General Aviation terminal in the south-east, employment opportunities will be gone, support of the local economy will be gone, north east Hampshire will lose an historic asset, just scrub, weeds and unfriendly reptiles will win.

Whilst the airlines have taken a terrible beating during the pandemic, General Aviation has continued to survive, testament being how busy Blackbushe has been over the past few months between lockdowns. The nation needs General Aviation, it supports the GDP by some £3billion pounds, it also needs Blackbushe Airport.

One day the penny may drop?

PB

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"Photo of the Day"
23/11/20


As the good ship Blackbushe steams steadily through Lockdown2 into the ever darkening murky waters of winter it's now just over two months until she reaches that most decisive of ports, the Court of Appeal. Her crew are ready for whatever the ensuing legal battle may try to inflict upon them, we all must be united in our hopes that their valiant endeavours bring about the victory our almost eighty year old veteran needs so as she can sail into the clear waters of a future free of the muck and bullets cast by so many years of belligerent bureaucracy.

POTD feels the need to remind itself of some of those glorious Spitfire moments Blackbushe has enjoyed over the past years, reminders of another famous victory over transgressors....




The one and only Neil Williams at the conclusion of one his impromptu 'Neil and a Spitfire' sorties. Nothing short of magic.




Another 'Neil and a Spitfire' as he flies the Shuttleworth MkV Spit at Blackbushe's 1976 Air Festival.




BBMF Spitfire during a summer weekend some years back when they set up camp at Blackbushe to facilitate their weekend display schedules.


















Another BBMF moment when Blackbushe dovetailed with their operational requirements just a few years ago....




Aerobility and the Spitfire, two BBMF Spitfires joined the celebrations as Aerobility officially opened their new Blackbushe hangar.




Pride in ownership... Doug Arnold and Spit pose together.




Blackbushe Airport celebrates her 50th, something we couldn't allow to pass without a Spitfire in the programme...




1977 Blackbushe Air Festival.. PPS, Tony Bianchi at the wheel.




Blackbushe celebrates her 75th with a Spitfire of 16 Squadron, one of her famed wartime PR squadrons..an historic day!




When one is never enough, our second Spitfire celebrating Blackbushe's glorious 75th!!




Another of Doug's personal Spitfires...




..and we should not forget Blackbushe's Warbirds of Great Britain's fabulous work restoring and giving life back to numerous Spitfires despite the opposition from her local bureaucracies..



There are more, but hopefully the above give an indication how the years since 1960 have not been without the joyful sight and sound of Spitfires, we must look forward to the days when Blackbushe has at last won her freedom against oppressive opposition and her hallowed acres are free to welcome the Spitfire and everyone else for many years to come.

PB

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"Photo of the Day"
24/11/20

So we meet again!! Spitfire Monday has melted into uncertain Tuesday, simply because today was a little uncertain following a system failure at POTD High Command and the failure of en external hard drive containing much valued material and my system back-up... which has now be reinstated after more than 15 hours of recreation on a new Seagate drive. There are perils in trusting one's treasures to the world of electromagnetic data storage.

Yesterday the Forum produced a brief update on the use of electric energy to power future aviation, I entitled it "Sowing the Seeds for Tomorrow's Power Plants", whereby a new electric crop sprayer and a hybrid troop transport are planned. I question whether a 'short circuit' would be advisable in such future craft? Your link >> blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/14693

Tomorrow POTD will deliver further contributions from Mike Biddulph once I've ironed out a little more of my system, but for the this morning a reminder of days long gone when we had 6,000ft of rock solid tarmac then known as 08/26, and every September would mean just one thing, Farnborough Week at BLACKBUSHE...








































You've seen them before, and now you've seen them again! Unforgettable days. The one day that remains firmly implanted from that year being the one with a misty grey beginning where from home in Berkshire I could hear an endless droning rumble from somewhere 'up there'... Fortunately my new school was a week late in opening thus I was free to cycle like a bat out of hell (almost) to Blackbushe to perhaps find an answer to the sounds from above.. Ascending Cricket Hill from Yateley the murk began its September time burn off..and there through the new window to heaven was a sight to behold. Very large numbers of silver sunlit shapes stacked to some considerable altitude as they made their way in turn to land at Blackbushe. The above photos give evidence of the type of equipment arriving from far and near... if ever the magic of Blackbushe needed qualification, it was on days such as these the magic was personified..

Finally, an update to a POTD "Comments and Questions" issue regarding the Rt Hon Patrick Jenrick MP and his response to the All Party Parliamentary Group on GA's question regarding aerodromes and new planning laws. Basically he has not responded as yet, APPG on GA have now complained to him about the unacceptable delay. The APPG will keep us posted as and when, or even if... blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/14694


Have a nice Tuesday. One week tomorrow Blackbushe can fully roll her doors open again... 2nd December!! Hopefully? I note that that flu vac centres such as the one at Blackbushe will be employed as Covid 19 vaccination centres when the great vaccination programme begins. Assuming Blackbushe will play her part in the nation's recovery to health?

PB

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"Photo of the Day"
25/11/20


It's chalk and cheese.... The 'normal' of yesterday/the 'normal' of today....

Somebody asked me, "What is normal?" earlier in relation to the global desire to return to "normal". "Normal" is the condition we all enjoyed, suffered, tolerated, and now look back on as waves of nostalgia take us back to those heady days prior to February/March of this year when the normality chomping viral curse swept around our planet. The contrast is classic 'chalk and cheese' and the cheese of yesterday seems much more palatable than perhaps it did in the pre Covid era? POTD's proof of the pudding guesstitmation is that by this time next year 'normal service' may have become well established, even vapour trails will criss cross the morning sky as aviation finds it feet and our nation gets back to the overseas trading upon which it depends. Could it be that the new 'normal' will be treated with true reverence, the comparison between our old freedom and Covid curtailment being enough to melt the snowflakes and awaken the woke whose ambition to dismantle our past reached disturbing heights? However bad 'normal' may have seemed to some before the pandemic, its return is now something we yearn for.. Don't you?

"What on Earth has that go to do with Blackbushe?" I hear... Well, Blackbushe certainly looks forward to a new normal having suffered bureaucratic oppression for six decades, she has survived under council funded curtailment for far too long, living decades of 'chalk' existence the airfield, its owners, its users, its tenants, its many hundreds/thousands of supporters, its hungry visitors who come to refuel, its business users, its resident aeroplanes condemned to live out winters unprotected by hangars, its loyal staff, all crave for a new era of common sense when the 'cheese' finally arrives and the bureaucratic buffers are finally smashed.




From her heroic former days when Blackbushe crews sacrificed their lives for our 21st Century 'normal' and freedom..




..to our current curtailments...




..and onward to an extraordinary future in keeping with the travel revolution that is bound to come!



Blackbushe Airport holds all the ingredients for the needs of General Aviation, business flying, and an environmentally unbeatable airfield just where one is needed. I've said it before, I'll keep on saying it, and hopefully so will all our members!

Within POTD's "Comments" department there has been increased consideration as to enhancing awareness amid the council tax payers of Hampshire as to the travesty that Hampshire County Council are performing with Council Tax payers' money in their inexplicable enthusiasm to destroy the Airport's viability and its future prospects at the same time.

Perhaps a recap? We can go back to 1960, but there ain't time, as to the manic opposition to Blackbushe that arose from elements of the local population and their elected representatives. The Parish dug up Blackbushe 'east', the County Council eventually taking ownership of that valued tract of land. They were offered big money by the owners of the Airport to preserve part of the apron and the eastern two thirds of the Terminal. Offers rejected out of hand, the County Council destroyed two thirds of the Terminal in a show of their misguided incompetence.

Come 2019, April, and we are all gathered at the Planning Inquiry at the behest of the Government's Planning Inspectorate. At last a chance to speak 'officially' for the airfield! With some dismay, Hampshire County Council arrived seemingly uninvited whereby they requested of the Inspector permission to attend but on a "strictly neutral basis". The Inspector agreed, and HCC's legal voice said they could act as 'advisors'..... Of course. They had quite a lot to say for advisors.

June of 2019, the Inspector's decision was forthcoming and he approved 100% the Airport's Application to de-register 115 acres of Common for Airport development. At last !!!!!! Until Hampshire County Council objected on a technicality, as was there option, and last February we trooped to the High Court hearing that lasted two days.

Now here's where consideration is called for. The legal costs to the Council, using our money, were astronomical! All this at the time when HCC have come out stating they are cash strapped and implementing £80million in cut backs over a two year period. Education, health, services will suffer.

Meanwhile the mega spend to wreck Blackbushe continues.

The High Court hearing last February was somewhat inconclusive as the argument over the meaning of 'curtilage' was a massive fly in the ointment...Finding in favour of Hampshire Count Council in that this uncertain definition would have legal ramifications long into future planning issues. The Judge kindly agreed to leave to appeal at the Court of Appeal. More mega thousands in legal fees for both Hampshire County Council and the Airport owners.. The hearing is next February. Do the residents of Hampshire know what their County Council are doing when not only cash strapped, they have now gone to the Government begging more money as a consequence of Covid!!!!

Where we go after February is an unknown. But if HCC had not objected to the Planning Inspector's decision in the summer of '19 the Airport could by now have its new infrastructure under way, more people would have employment and the airfield would be an increasing source of income for the local economy.

One is tempted to think that some kind of travesty of justice is going on fuelled by the hard earned cash extracted from the pockets of Hampshire's people?

I have been at the receiving end of various communications in my defence of Blackbushe, some welcome, some not. I think in future all such communications will be shown on the Forum for all to share, freedom of speech is far from dead!




The famed entrance awaits once more!!


T'is 07.30, the brain cells need nourishment, you can probably tell..

Some more photos from Mike Biddulph tomorrow!

PB

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"Photo of the Day"
26/11/20


Rishi has spoken! Under a glorious promise of a £100billion spend to put Britain on back on its tracks with massive transport and communications programmes, there remains the issue of a national debt that reflects circumstances akin to a major war.. To say there's a price to pay is a gross understatement, we're all going to feel the hand of the Chancellor going into our pockets. "POTD" has hosted almost 300 visits since yesterday's 'edition', 300 opportunities to update on a reflection of the way Hampshire County Council have engaged in open warfare on Blackbushe Airport. Warfare that's felt its way into the pockets of every Hampshire Council Tax payer, and continues to do so.

The County Council remain intent on their attack on Blackbushe as we will see at the Court of Appeal in February next year. Council Tax is now set for a 5% rise with an additional fifteen quid for the Police force. No comments have been received, good or bad, following yesterday's POTD, but HCC soaking up our increased Tax payments would not seem so bad if their focus was on improving our lot whilst they undergo £80million in expenditure cutbacks, but spending eye watering sums on their court room attacks on Blackbushe at the same time appear incongruous to the extreme.

2021 must be he year when maximum effort is employed to get the nation back on its business feet with bureaucracies supporting business opportunities to the hilt, either financially or in spirit. Our County Council's continued efforts to achieve the opposite so far as Blackbushe and a new General Aviation, business aviation opportunity on their doorstep is derisable.

Members are welcome to share their thoughts in the Forum's Comments section!!!

A volley of suitable Christmas correspondence to the County Council's Chief Executive might be in order?




Moving on to a more relaxed moment. As promised yesterday, some more photos from Mike Biddulph and TMC. First a reminder of the joys of flight over southern England..














The needs of an engine health flight must not be ignored during lockdowns.. and the airfield is?? Compare the residential infrastructure to Blackbushe's environmental detachment from any major residential outcrops..




Legal memories... the fight goes on, an early 1960's battle for common sense as a Club House for Three Counties' operation was objected to by alien forces.. Today's it's known as The Bushe Cafe.












The wonders of Blackbushe during Farnbrough Week '55 as recalled from Air Pictorial....





...including Adolph Galland, in WW2 a formidable Luftwaffe fighter pilot at Blackbushe. We parted as friends, seen here at Blackbushe Airport about to fly the only (at the time) civil registered Jet Provost. The text regarding Blackbushe during Farnborough Week conveys an excellent reflection on the time..



Sincere "Thanks", to Mike Biddulph for his photos and findings!!

PB

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"Photo of the Day"
27/11/20


Fanfare!!!! We have a winner!

The one and only entrant to yesterday's POTD demanding question was "TJ". 100% correct with his answer, he walks away shrouded in POTD glory and the POTD staff are delighted to offer a round of applause - the competition was shall we say, a little lacking in numbers!! The airfield in question is well known to one of Blackbushe's rotary operators and fortunate to have very strong municipal investment creating an airfield with support for industrial/business applications combined with a superb General Aviation programme too. £30 million of investment into an airfield for tomorrow. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ARE YOU LISTENING?[/i]




Meanwhile, back at dear old Blackbushe the news is as good as it can be at the moment.. Lockdown ends next week and Blackbushe's blood will again pound through its arteries just as vigorously as it is able..

Quoting the voice of Blackbushe,"In accordance with government guidance, we are looking forward to welcoming back our GA pilots from Wednesday 2nd December. It is great to see that so much enthusiasm remains for GA flying. All of the resident flying schools have their own procedures in place to make their aircraft and schools COVID-Secure, and likewise we have measures around the airport to keep us all safe as we move back to the tier system".

OPENING HOURS

From Wednesday 2nd December we return to our normal opening hours of 07:00 - 18:00 local, 7 days a week. There may be limits on the number of staff, as we have to take measures to make Blackbushe Airport COVID-Secure, and consider not only the needs of our customers, but also the safety of staff. The highlights are as follows:

Open 7 days a week.

Normal Opening Hours - From 07:00 - 18:00 local.

Refuelling hours return to normal: 08:00 - 18:00 local. Please refuel the day before for early departures.

Winter Night Flying continues, please make sure you have you are familiar with the procedures.



Good news! 2nd December, 2020 Blackbushe Airport "re-opens".

The use of the word "re-opens" rings a very loud bell for those of us who can remember another "2nd", this one belonging to October, 1962... Were you there? The POTD Editor was but a sprightly sweet sixteen, we were all younger once, and thrilled to be a part of "The Great Blackbushe Airport Re-opening Air Display". The airfield's 365 acres secured by AVM Don Bennett was once again 'operational', or at least to a degree it was. We had the runways, taxiways and the Terminal. Not much else, but it was the beginning.

The grass had not been cut since the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation abandoned ship in May 1960. It was quite a tangle, but for this dream of a day in 1962 she had her grass cut, runways and taxiways cleared of foreign objects, and much excitement over what was about to happen...A programme was printed, the public were welcome, just needed good weather.

The day dawned dry with a fairly high 8/8 cloud cover. No wind to speak of, just right! Out in the mid field position we awaited developments. They came. They came in droves, forever implanted in the grey cell is the image of dots before the eyes. An invasion! By around 10.00 the distant sky produced black specs in the distance, seemingly from all directions. The specs grew into aeroplanes, and as they manifested more dots in the distance who in turn became aeroplanes too. Old ones, new ones, the DH Dove was the largest to arrive, the Army - as always great supporters - arrived.. We parked rows of light aircraft parallel with and south of the main runway. Hawkers sent their beautiful Hawker Hart with Hugh Merewether at the wheel, we parked him alongside venerable DH products. Aircraft were parked in rows almost the length of the main runway, they were parked on tarmac areas, they were parked wherever they could be safely located. No air traffic as such, aldis signals...We lived in a different age where aviators took more personal involvement in procedures without the domination of today's rule books. Many aircraft were non-radio, seemed quite normal then.............

The afternoon flying display proceeded without the aid of CAP403, the skies around Blackbushe roared to the sound of jets, especially the United States Air Force who treated us to a variety of fly-pasts.

The sadness comes with the passing of so many years since that triumphant day. Were YOU there? So many of the friendships that blossomed from those tough but quite magical days have been lost to Mother Nature's intervention, just count my blessings that (a) I'm still here , and (b) I can still remember the occasion!! The old photos help.... If you were there please leave a comment in the POTD comments section, I'd love to hear from you!! 2nd October, 1962, an historic day.














































An amazing day in the varied history of aviation's most cherished of sites..Blackbushe Airport, 2nd October , 1962 The Day she first Re-opened!!!!!!!

Were you there?

PB

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"Photo of the Day"
28/11/20


Hopefully the last lockdown Saturday for a while? We can but hope common sense prevails over the festive season and the spoil sport virus is given the least opportunities to spread its malevolence while a degree of festive spirit is now officially approved? The time when we (at least those of a certain vintage) can get a shot in the arm, maybe two, providing a more optimistic view of the future may not be too far away, at the same time Blackbushe may also get a shot in the arm attending the Court of Appeal in February. The early stages of 2021 look like being crucial in more ways than one!




Glorious memories of the sixties.. Off to Sandown IoW in the company of a Comper Swift, Miles Whitney Straight, and a Tiger Moth. Free and easy days when one was young, somebody suggested a formation cross country and off we went!

Yesterday's "POTD" focused on another joyous day, 2nd October, 1962, the occasion of Blackbushe's official 'Re-opening Air Display', and asked who remembers the day or who might even have been there. Judging by the overwhelming silence the conclusion must be drawn that no POTD followers were in attendance - or just can't remember, it was along time ago!! It's a slightly disturbing feeling of being somewhat isolated in sharing such memories, but the act of doing so gives me great pleasure! Your living link to one day in history....




The strange thing about 2nd October, 1962, was the 3rd October, 1962. The airfield had had a long overdue grass cut, but otherwise there were no aircraft, just the Terminal and the desolate wilderness that had become of Blackbushe. Silent, sad, but full of hope...





In 1962 those of us who were there had no idea of how the future would shape. I guess we still don't, although the changes have been considerable, the future is still highly questionable? No concept of how warbirds would become a feature of the 'field, her future flying schools, or opportunities for some to get involved in her activities for decades to come.. Five B-25s on the ground would have been beyond our wildest dreams in the early 1960's..



Yesterday I had a call from one of the team involved in flying those five B-25s across the Atlantic for filming Hannover Street. You may recall the Channel Four TV documentary "B-25s do fly in IMC"? The programme was subsequently available on DVD in limited numbers. Steve advises that he has managed to purchase a limited additional supply of this splendid production, and is happy to offer them for sale. The DVD, including postage and packing, is being sold for just £15.95. If you're interested best be quick, there aren't many, contact Steve Richards at [e-mail]. The rest is up to you. Having flown in the B-25s I can say its an experience unlike any others for her engine sounds or her aerobatic capability!!











Finally today, another moment that would have been pure fantasy back in 1962 when we declared Blackbushe Airport "Re-opened"... An Italian Air Force Aeritalia G222 transport aircraft taxies to her spot out on runway 14/32, one of the many visitors welcomed to Blackbushe during Farnborough Week 1988.



Whatever the coming years may bring. looking back on so many treasured memories of the Blackbushe years I realise just how fast they've flown. Hopefully, it will not be too much longer until we can all share the time when Blackbushe gets the lease of life she's fought for for sixty years. For some of us sooner rather than later would be appreciated...

Enjoy the weekend...

PB

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"Photo of the Day"
29/11/20




She's had a fair share in celebrity appearances, Sinatra arrived at Blackbushe by Brantly during the AVM Bennett era, his description of Blackbushe is claimed to be, "You gotta quaint lil old airport here..." or words to that effect. Guess he was right!




A rather quaint area of Blackbushe is the eastern extremity. Unfortunately the local council chose to destroyed it as this unfortunate flying machine discovered..




While at the even less quaint British Car Auctions western end of our runway,"Going to the bank" is not recommended.. Demonstrated on more than one occasion.




The quintessential quaintness of a British airfield part run by the County Council...




Quaint customs of the British Army before boarding their Hermes, leaving Blackbushe and heading for battle..The Suez Crisis, 1956.




2020 drags on with a seemingly endless November soon to end. 2021 cannot come fast enough when days like this may become more regular. This year has been anything but quaint...



EasyJet have reported a 200% surge in flight searches for the Christmas period..UK domestic bookings! Flights to/from Bristol, Belfast, Edinburgh and London being the prime sectors. The Government Minster approved Christmas 'bubble'. A ray of sunshine on our stormy domestic skies. Remember our rather splendid domestic regional carrier whose aeroplanes once linked the United Kingdom? What happened to the proposed rescue of FlyBe suggested a few weeks ago? Nice idea, faster and cheaper than rail, the UK is going to need solid regional regional air services linking our currently starving regional aerodromes when recovery comes and Covid is kicked into touch.... Quaint idea?

PB

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Photo of the Day"
30/11/20

Here we are, the last day of endless November, two days to Tier 2...and Blackbushe Airport being allowed to breath freely once again. Freely enough, at least... The Court of Appeal date draws almost tangibly closer, will this be the last hurdle? My crystal ball seems a little foggy this morning..

Had we been around on this day in 1784 we might have caught a glimpse of John-Pierre Blanchard making his 'scientific observations' from a hydrogen balloon over London. I was not around, for the record. I was around in 1999 on this November date, British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merged to for British Aerospace Systems, the largest defense contractor in Europe and apparently fourth largest in the world.
























Noticed how many aeroplanes at Blackbushe come equipped with a spare engine? Seems you can stick 'em anywhere...


Three's a crowd?


See you in December....
PB

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"Photo of the Day"
01/12/20

Made it! Squeezed out of November, just 31 days until we bust out of 2020... The Court of Appeal is now literally, 'the month after next', and maybe, just maybe the airfield known as Blackbushe will at last find the justice she so deserves? 2021 could be an exciting year in more ways than one as millions of needles in arms around the world bring about some kind of acceptable 'normal'?

Reflecting back to RAF Hartford Bridge's post D-Day year, December 1944 witnessed one big change at the airfield. On 2nd December her name changed to Royal Air Force Blackbushe.... Another Hartford Bridge lies in Northumberland, the Post Office confusing the two, new personnel found themselves arriving at Hartford Bridge that had no airfield and a long way from where they should have been. A new name was needed, Blackbushe Farm was nearby and the airfield seemingly adopted the name for itself. The name Blackbushe Airport means many different things, just depends how old you are as to what...




Memories attached to 1959..happy hours by the A30




Tragic memories of a fourteen year old..




Better memories, our early fly-ins!!




Mixed memories from the 1960's.. Hope on one side of the fence, despair and destruction on the other..




That unforgettable day when the Dakota first came back to Blackbushe!!




Legendary friends who shaped the future, the late and much missed Ken Gray tops up the new Blackbushe Aero Club's Piper Cub. No fuel at Blackbushe back then. No anything, just the amazing fraternity of like minded souls I was so fortunate to be with.




Much loved Auster 6's of Three Counties Aero Club, Three Counties' days were some of the best!




Winters. 1962/63 especially....




Night flying, goose necks, shivers...goose bumps.




Movie making. Many well known film makers have found Blackbushe suited their needs.. This scene from "The Battle of Britain".




Air Shows!! Who would have thought it back in the summer of 1960!!




Farnborough Weeks...at Blackbushe!





Uncontrollable urges to run air shows and occasions at Blackbushe.... hard to suppress!!





The return of an old friend..




The warbird years...




..and NEW HANGARS!!




Hampshire County Council's continued investment in the destruction of Blackbushe Airport. Our money down the drain.




2017, still making memories as we celebrated Blackbushe's 75th year of serving aviation..




Sunshine days, business jets and Blackbushe, she will go on making memories for years to come, but whatever happens dear old Blackbushe has already created her fair share of memories whatever your age!!




Next steps in memory making will be back to the High Court in February...



Here's to the future and all of us who wish Blackbushe the future she deserves!!

PB