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Post by PB on Dec 12, 2020 7:50:16 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 12/12/20Pleasantly mild for the time of year, December plods on with just twelve days to Christmas Eve and in the process she demonstrates how easily she can swing the weather on our soon to be independent British Isles. Never in one's wildest dreams did the prospect of Christmas being a threat to our national health ever occur, but this year a test of our resolve to stay on top of the virus will be sorely tested. Blackbushe suffered badly during World War Two when a severe influenza outbreak swept across the air base, a perfect demonstration of the volatile nature of aggressive viral attack. POTD comes to you on bended knee imploring our guests and members to be ultra "cautious over Christmas", hopefully exciting times at Blackbushe might be round the corner, let's all enjoy them!
Here ends POTD's first health bulletin...
Meanwhile the Forum continues her journey hopefully delivering messages of Blackbushe past, present, and future. POTD continues to focus mainly on the past delivering memories preserved in black & white or even colour. The present comes wrapped in updates from the Airport Management, relevant news, and the Forum's "Covid NOTAMS" whereby the day's NOTAMS from airfields in the south are updated each morning.. blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/13339 The future is looked at from two points of view, the Forum's views on Blackbushe Airport's benefits and their future value to aviation and the local community plus movements in aviation research reflecting on news in particular focused on the type of aircraft and their means of propulsion. Yesterday we delivered news on hybrid electric flight trials on a commercial route. blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/14795 Like it, or not, the future looks set to bring in new ways aeroplanes will look, sound, and behave.. The Blackbushe Forum is happy to reach in all directions to keep you posted on relevant aviation concerns, the work of the APPG on GA for example.. blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/14256
The wonders of 'the link'! Hopefully the Forum represents value for money? A few pence for every visit the Forum has enjoyed would be very welcome, but driven by mysterious forces that emanate from the sacred acres known as the Hartford Bridge Flats the Forum and its contents look set to maintain operations as long as circumstances allow.... POTD lapped up 653 visits since this time yesterday, THANK YOU to all who frequent our pages!!.... the future! The Cessna Skymaster. Banned from Blackbushe under the auspices of a Section 52 Planning Agreement, the type flies on into history elsewhere. This is the hybrid electric version currently on proving flights based on commercial routes. A precursor of tomorrow? The fairly recent past.. 'Memories', a house speciality! Farnborough Week's, for example, when small regional airliners brought visitors while painting a vision of the potential that lies beneath the acres known as Blackbushe Airport.The past..when Blackbushe was the breeding ground for Britain's growing 'brave, face all odds' independent airline enterprises...and in the beginning. Royal Air Force Hartford Bridge, the days when her aircrews faced death on a daily basis, and Royalty set foot upon the hallowed acres to express national appreciation.Hopefully the Blackbushe Forum has delivered most of what I had in mind when opening her windows for the first time back in January, 2015... ? Thanks to all who provide their comments or just the few simple 'likes', makes a difference after the early morning head scratching!
Take care, we've now got 599 members, be nice to make 600 and not lose any on the way....
PB
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Post by PB on Dec 13, 2020 6:42:19 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 13/12/20POTD is grateful, as is oft' the case, to Rocky14 and his splendidly inspiring comments within the Forum's "POTD Comments" section! Yesterday's offering from Rocky14 questioned a previously unchallenged consideration of Covid-19's effect on the human race, especially Hampshire County Council and its comprehension of airport's and their benefits!! Priceless connection with Ares and his infamous record... More please!!If superstition should tread in your direction today must be a blessing in that it's the last 13th of any month in the year 2020? As for the coming year the viral tide sweeping across the human race should show signs of it being tamed while on a more localised point of view Blackbushe may have endured 2020 as the last full year submerged under a crazed tide of senseless bureaucracy.
It can only get better!
Looking over one's a shoulder at today's date, just for the record 13th December, 1958, produced G-AMOJ a BEA Viscount on crew training, and two RAF Beverleys from Transport Command.BEA Visounts on a misty winter's day having diverted from a much more misty Hounslow Airport. On such days Blackbushe Airport had something of the Hounslow Airport atmosphere as teams of ground crews moved in to keep their flock moving..A mighty Beverley rests abeam the A30.Another Beverley enters the once huge Blackbushe main apron. Were it possible, a visiting Beverley would look vast alongside today's somewhat smaller patrons of the remaining apron.. Back then an aircraft of that size on the airfield was not unusual, but it would still have dwarfed light aeroplanes that have always played their part in the Blackbushe picture..Yesterday's morsel in the Forum's "Non Blackbushe News" section carried a report on the considerations being made in returning Plymouth Airport back to her operational status. Hopefully she may see the way into restoring some regional airline services, essential financial backbone for any well placed aerodrome with suitable runways. A click on the link reveals all... blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/14800
Have a good day.. PB
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Post by PB on Dec 14, 2020 7:36:17 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 14/12/20On this day back in '79 the Edgeley Optica first felt the joy of flight.. and optimism for a British built aeroplane that would fulfill a need across the world's nations for an economical observation and surveillance aircraft.
The manufacturers were happy to accept my invitation to show the aircraft at Blackbushe's 50th Anniversary event in 1992, and I was happy to accept a flight in a very pleasant aeroplane where only helicopters provided a similar gold fish bowl view of the world below.. Fabulous!The years roll on, aircraft come and aircraft go, but some airfields go on forever..we hope! In an idle moment before committing to POTD my thoughts wandered around the highly unique position of Blackbushe Airport. Where else within less than an hour's drive to Central London do you find an airfield slap bang on a main arterial road offering close up views of aeroplanes as you pass by? Blackbushe was quite unique in proffering views of commercial aircraft, military aircraft, light aircraft and an entire airport at work separated by no more than a drainage ditch and potentially aggressive gorse bushes. Her unique qualities also came bundled in extraordinary environmental qualities that still remain to this day. The combination of being close to London, supremely easy access from a major highway, environmental qualities unmatched by other south eastern airfields who also boast a hard runway and are not destined to become housing estates... Blackbushe is unique, a national asset, a gift to General Aviation, but a gift wrapped in chains by local bureaucracy who fail to see one shred of the positives they seek to eliminate in order to convert Blackbushe Airport into no more than acres of wasteland. In February this unique airfield once again goes to the highest judiciary to combat cash strapped Hampshire County Council's continued efforts to flatten the airfield's hopes just as much as they flattened two thirds of the Airport's precious Terminal Building. You could not have a bureaucratic scandal more visible than that of Blackbushe, the scary thing is how the injustice of Blackbushe and the bureaucrats has gone on for so long without enough people jumping up and down and asking "WHY?"A moment from celebrating Blackbushe's 75th! A couple of aeroplanes rest near the A30, just as they would have done in the glorious fifties before the airfield was pretty much destroyed. Small in comparison to the heavies of the time, but large in the nostalgia they carried with them...Roadside wonders of the golden fifties...! The A30, a gorse bush, and a nuclear bomber!On a wet day best to view Blackbushe life from the Terminal Building..Last one of the day, and three things you will not see at Blackbushe Airport today. 1. Handley Page Hermes. 2. Snow. 3. Hangars.We can get by without Numbers 1 and 2, but how much longer will aircraft have to endure winter without shelter at Blackbushe? Maybe, just maybe not too much longer? Happily Blackbushe still offers close up views of aeroplanes to the A30's passing traffic, thankfully there are those who truly see the value of this unique airfield and are willing to go the extra mile to see her overcome the malignancy of hostile bureaucracy..
PB
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Post by PB on Dec 15, 2020 7:27:39 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 15/12/20Mid December. First I must pay homage to one of our Members who is taking proactive action with regard to Hampshire County Council's scant regard for the well being of Blackbushe Airport and the assets it has in store.. Thank you on behalf of all who wish to see the airfield develop according to the needs of any normal General Aviation facility...
Next, some regard for today's date...December 15th is an historic day in the world of aviation...
1944 Glenn Miller, famous band leader of WW2 lost over the English Channel while flying in a Norseman aircraft. Conspiracy stories still fly as to what happened..
1955 DH Mosquito flew its last RAF operational sortie.
1965 Gemini 6A lifted from Cape Canaveral to perform the first in orbit rendezvous with another craft, Gemini 7.
1970 Artem Mikoyan dies at age 65. Founder of the MIG fighters..
1978 Fairey Gannet retired from operational duties.
1996 Merger of McDonnell Douglas and Boeing announced.
2006 First flight of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
2009 First flight of Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
2010 The Harrier endures premature retirement flying its final operational sortie from RAF Cottesmore.
That's today's history tutorial! So many advances in aviation and spaceflight during the decades past since WW2. It's noteworthy, perhaps, that from the time just five years after the Mosquito retired from RAF service Blackbushe Airport has fought the stranglehold of mysterious bureaucracy whereby generations of councils from Parish to County have refused to lessen their grip on her throat..
Passing years....'Boyhood' recall of Blackbushe in the fifties, roadside with just shrubbery and a ditch between self and the action! Just one of the many Vikings living and working at Blackbushe. The early sixties. Mankind had progressed into space, local councils progressed by breaking up Blackbushe as far as they were able.Mid seventies, Air Festivals at Blackbushe..and Bob Dylan's Blackbushe 'Picnic' concert attracted hundreds of thousands to hear about his big brass bed..The eighties..Blackbushe gave Spitfires new life, warbirds were part of the scene, and the Mosquito came back to where the type made history in WW2.The nineties, Blackbushe still operational and celebrated her fiftieth, the United States Navy flew in to celebrate their old Blackbushe base's birthday...and now, today's Blackbushe ready for action as soon as the latest lockdown expired. 'Tomorrow', she fights on into next year to face those who continue their grip around the throat of General Aviation's most valuable piece of General Aviation real estate..Here's to all who continue to fight the good fight for Blackbushe!!
PB
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Post by PB on Dec 16, 2020 7:23:53 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 16/12/20Today at Blackbushe it's +10C OAT, balmy and breezy, but no fog! Drifting back to 1944's RAF Blackbushe and December activity her fiery asset FIDO would have been seen burning bright..Although Blackbushe enjoyed an enviable 'fog free' record she was not exempt from a touch of the pea soupers now and again. 13th December, 1944, saw visibility drop to below 100 yards. Metric measures were still on the other side of the Channel. FIDO was set free to burn off the offending fog allowing two Dakotas, a Wellington, and a Mosquito to find safe refuge. To this day the FIDO lines remain visible alongside the main runway to which they guided numerous aviators.. Just 35 years later, although not involving Blackbushe, on 16th December, 1979, a British Airways Concorde landed at Heathrow just two hours and fifty eight minutes after leaving New York. Average speed 1,172 mph (1,886km/h).Blackbushe played her part in Concorde's development. A minor part, perhaps, as the airframe destined for RAE Farnborough's Concorde structure testing facility found Blackbushe a conveniently placed location to facilitate handover to Farnborough technicians.. But then, Blackbushe has always been conveniently placed for aviation's purposes!BOAC, (pre British Airways) were prolific users of Blackbushe in the sub sonic pre 1960 era. Crew training with all their fleet types provided plenty of circuit bashing..Reflecting on BOAC's high levels of crew training up until May 1960, 1977 provided a moment's reflection on her past links as British Airways brought the shiny new RR powered 747 to the Blackbushe Air Festival, the type's public debut.. Alan Chalkley and his crew provided a unique spectacle for Blackbushe's circuit activity.. The one and only time the 747 came to Blackbushe.Concorde's one and only visit to Blackbushe by air.........PB
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Post by PB on Dec 17, 2020 7:16:51 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 17/12/20Another day nearer to something, but what to look forward to most? Socially separated Christmas, the vaccine's needle, Santa making it safely, a Brexit decision, or maybe an end to six decades of bureaucratic blockades at Blackbushe? Whichever I opt for all are coming soon except for one..and we all know which that is! The Blackbushe saga could end after the long awaited Court of Appeal decision that will follow the February hearing, otherwise another long slog to the Supreme Court. Blackbushe Airport has no intention of letting go of the reins that will lead to eventual justice and the General Aviation citadel so many of us dream about...
Yesterday your scribe's feet descended onto Blackbushe tarmac for the first time in a long time. Far too long, but what a joy to catch up on the latest news and to see the HQ Team in good health! As mentioned in the previous paragraph, Blackbushe Airport has no intention of letting go the reins, quite the opposite. 2021 is going to be an interesting year for the aerodrome on the 'Flats'..
Talking of yesterday and thinking of the future, I posted a revealing piece on the amazing PC-24 under the "Non Blackbushe News" section of our Forum.. Click the link, it's a wonderful aeroplane and so suited to an airfield like Blackbushe!! I called it a "Jet for all Seasons (and Airports)" blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/14832Before departing Blackbushe yesterday I grabbed a series of photos for Chris in Italy. He's working on some amazing Blackbushe add-on scenery for the new Microsoft Flight Siumlator FS2020, a giant leap in FS technology.. If you have not followed our communications some evidence of his work is here... blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/14797
Paragraph One of today's "POTD" questioned what to look forward to most at the moment. This paragraph takes us to something to look back on. On this day 17th December, 1935 the venerable and most beautiful Douglas DC-3 Dakota first took to the wing on a cool but sunny day in beautiful Santa Monica.. The rest is history! Nine years later Dakotas were becoming the most prolific users of RAF Blackbushe carrying supplies to the front and injured troops back for repair."Happy Birthday" old friend! 85 years today since she first felt the thrill of the wind beneath her wings, she remains one of the most successful, civil, military, adaptable, rugged, good looking, sweet sounding transport aeroplanes ever to have graced the skies of Planet Earth. Long may she continue to do so..The immortal Dakota, a type for so long a part of the Blackbushe scene, the most recent Dakota visit being this delight from Dunsfold participating in Blackbushe's 75th Anniversary weekend. Hopefully it won't be the last?Stay well, and stay safe...
PB
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Post by PB on Dec 18, 2020 6:57:59 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 18/12/20'Morning all.... 06.00, another refreshing day as the wind tracks in from the south, crosses the A30 at right angles, and deposits plentiful precipitation across Blackbushe and its surroundings accompanied by an almost acceptable ten degrees Celsius. Not very "festive" conditions with Christmas being a week today, seems that 'white Christmases' are a thing of the past in the southern English clime? I've seen out quite a few Christmases and don't recall there ever being a 'white' one on Blackbushe's latitude, but maybe the memory is a bit creaky?
We do live in strange times though. You'll remember the aptly named Three Counties Aero Club of which I'm a Founder Member? Established in 1963, their Club House is now the Bushe Cafe... Three Counties was the perfect name as Blackbushe lies close to no more than three county boundaries, Berkshire, Surrey and Hampshire.. Tomorrow Berkshire and Surrey vanish into the mists of Tier 3 while only parts of Hampshire on the coast receive the same recognition. Under Government rulings this means significant consideration from all who reside across the County boundaries of Berkshire and Surrey. POTD quotes from the Blackbushe Airport website..
"....we recognise that significant numbers of our users may live within Tier 3 areas. We re-iterate our request that nobody who lives in a Tier 3 area visits Blackbushe Airport, except where permitted under the regulations. For the avoidance of doubt these are:
Travelling into or out of a Tier 3 alert level area
Avoid travelling outside your area, including for overnight stays, other than where necessary, such as:
for work
for education
to access voluntary, charitable or youth services
because of caring responsibilities
for moving home
to visit your support bubble
for a medical appointment or treatment"
Very unfortunate for the airfield's cross border visitors, but happily Blackbushe Airport is not impacted in its ability to provide its regular services to aviation. Drifting back in time, just 58 years... I became a Founder Member of the new Blackbushe Aero Club, and Blackbushe was a vast open space where shortly before what was considered the second airport to London had stood. G-ARNL, the Club's delightful Piper Colt was flown up from her hangars at Southampton's Eastleigh Airport for weekends when the weather was reasonable. As the photo portrays, the Colt usually had the Airport to herself. They were wonderful but strange times.. RNL took me into the sky for the first time on a grey March Sunday in '63, one's outlook on life's wonders advanced several notches thereafter.A year or two later and the airfield started to grow by very small degrees, all the time the Parish Council's venomous attack on Blackbushe 'east' would cause gnashing of teeth, enhanced blood pressure, and dismay at such destruction.. a memory of the once intact apron shown here!Time rolled by... We built hangars, a row of 'temporary' lock-up 'tee' hangars, we built the 'temporary' Control Tower. Everything had to be 'temporary' as the Planning powers could not contemplate Blackbushe actually developing into a bona fide airfield, it conflicted with local forces who would do all possible to block progress while supporting the demise of Blackbushe's almost 400 acres of aerodrome. The photo indicates Blackbushe viewed from her wooden wonder - the temporary Tower - as she battled on on her side of the fence, while on t'other side weeds grew amid the Parish Council's detritus.Never through all the years of bureaucratic high jinks designed to hurt Blackbushe Airport would our wildest of dreams have suggested that one day it would be against the law to travel from Camberley just down the A30 to Blackbushe Airport unless you had a genuine and approved cause to do so...
That day dawns tomorrow! Mind how you go...
PB
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Post by PB on Dec 19, 2020 8:06:07 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 19/12/20December, 2020, Blackbushe Airport continues to be a busy airport between lockdowns and meteorological interventions. All things considered, and with the threatened demise of various flying sites including Fairoaks and Dunsfold for the purpose of building more houses, Blackbushe's survival remains not far short of a miracle. In these dark days of winter, hardship, tragedy, and national sovereignty's European stranglehold the only bright lights might seem to be those that deck the high streets and the multitude of homes that have converted into a display that must brighten the International Space Station's brief passage over our land..but for those who hold Blackbushe Airport with any form of deep regard our bright light must be that the airfield continues at full steam ahead, the team on the bridge have a great destination on the charts providing the bureaucratic icebergs dissolve in the warm currents of justice....
Blackbushe has always been a restless airfield, from the days of her conception, war, commercial post war expansion and six decades of struggle against anachronistic and divisive rhetoric. Whenever she was able, Blackbushe has shown her value by the degree of traffic she has attracted. There is no doubt that if all goes according to hopes at February's Court of Appeal Blackbushe will continue to show her assets to the full, assets under threat for no less than 80% of your scribes time on Earth.. AVM Bennett could see the Airport's assets when he saved her from final destruction after the 1960 closure, he fought the opposition tooth and nail, happily his ideals, guts and determination are still possible to achieve with our latest 'change of crew' once the bureaucratic buffers, Covid and Brexit are behind us...Just hope POTD will be around to see it?Another display of guts and determination.. The Bader's Bus formation display team of disabled pilots revelling in the Blackbushe circuit..A great experience from wherever you might happen to be watching!!!Farnborough Weeks also provided experiences, Blackbushe continued to fly the flag as visitors poured in from the sky..Enthusiasm for Blackbushe has not been universal as displayed by those who captured the Airport's east end!!Life will get better in due course once we've overcome the present threats to health and happiness, please take care over the coming week, there will be plenty more Christmases to come if we treat this one with the consideration due..
Thanks..
PB
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Post by PB on Dec 20, 2020 6:52:50 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 20/12/20Five days to Christmas!
"Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, Boris has spoken, an' that's the end of that"
Well, for some it is whose family is locked behind the border guards patrolling Tier 4 from midnight last..!! The virus has decided to play games and using a new set of teeth appears to be even more adapt at homing in on new targets. We must await more definite scientific analysis of the microscopic critter's latest guise, but no doubt the latest political decisions will be kicked around like a football by the critics over the coming hours.
POTD's reference of recent to Blackbushe Airport's location bordering three counties comes to light today..happily located in Hampshire with the Tier 4 counties of Berkshire and Surrey just a short distance away Blackbushe is able to carry on flying although visits from residents of the two bordering counties are not permitted unless on essential business at the airfield. The Forum carried details of the Airport's announcement last night...it's here >>> blackbusheairport.proboards.com/post/14857There is some action in the heavens beyond the grip of Covid or Ministerial intervention..The Christmas Star! Actually Jupiter and Saturn have been getting closer to each other in the night sky otherwise known as a conjunction. On December 21st 2020 – Winter Solstice, the two gas giants, Saturn and Jupiter, come very close together forming what many are calling the Christmas Star. Appearing closer than they have for 800 years, it's a unique viewing event.. I quote from "Meteorwatch".. "You may need to check your sky a few nights in advance to see whether or not you will be able to see the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. The reason being, it will be very low in the sky just after sunset in the west. In addition to this, both planets will set shortly after.
Sunset will be just before 4:00pm GMT and the conjunction of the two planets will set around 6:00 pm so there is a very short viewing window. I would recommend looking from around 4:30pm GMT. You may find it increasingly difficult to see the Christmas Star after 5:30pm GMT depending on your location. I have based these times for Oxford UK so they may differ depending on your location.
You may need to get to a hill or tall building to make sure you have a clear view of the western horizon.
I would like to add that the sky will not be filled with light and you won’t hear angels singing. The two planets will come together and will almost look like a single object. However, this won’t increase their brightness that much. Expect the brightness to be similar to half of the brightness of an ISS pass".
Whatever the distant heavens may, or may not, offer Blackbushe will be flying as per her Christmas schedule. Great news for those who dwell in Hampshire under the district of Hart..Christmas Week starts with a nod to the heavens...and treasured memories of long ago. The heavenly body Orion plane to see on one of Blackbushe's numerous resident Vikings... A fresh fall of snow across Blackbushe, every day of the year whatever the weather, the A30 offered images such as this that even over six decades of time have not lost their mystical pull on some deep set memories. It's POTD's pleasure to share some of them with you..As POTD said at the conclusion of yesterday morning's 'edition' before any ideas of Downing Street's later message, "please take care over the coming week, there will be plenty more Christmases to come if we treat this one with the consideration due.."
PB
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Post by PB on Dec 21, 2020 9:50:43 GMT
"Photo of the Day" 21/12/20Just a few days to Christmas as if we hadn't noticed, happily one's exterior illuminations convey a festive twinkle to those who pass in the night, the Blackbushe "weather cam" conveyed scenes of a jet's arrival as the light was fading last evening as I coincidentally switched on for a quick nostalgic glance across the Blackbushe acres from the comfort of home... life goes on! Just one exception, we have moved into the set of some disturbing science fiction movie surely? Just a few days before Christmas, streets that should be teeming with shoppers - empty, flights leaving full of holiday makers - not flying, Europe's nations banning air, sea and road transport from the UK, Manston Airport lives again - as a truck park - dire scare warnings from Government of a mutant viral beast whose increasingly aggressive appetite has it seeking victims at a voracious rate. The Health Secretary telling us it's "out of control - stay at home - forget Christmas!" Having said that one is tempted to say you just couldn't make it up, unfortunately I don't think I did... It will be interesting how forthcoming scientific data regarding the new viral strain tallies with the Health Secretaries dire warnings and the PM's decision to shut up shop.. but, adhere to the dictates we must, nevertheless a heart breaking time for so many....
The Chinese Year of the Rat. The Government have forked out countless billions to help its population ride the storm, while miracle upon miracles, new vaccines have been developed at super speed to save our souls. The Astra Zeneca vaccine looks like being approved by 28 December, by March it is forecast that 20 million of us will have had the jab. Light is visible at the end of the tunnel, maybe there is a God? That's another story, but if there is and he/she/it has an eye for justice POTD's fervent hope is that while sorting out the global ills come February 2021 the 'powers that be' will look down on the Court of Appeal and suitably convince its constituents of the shameful injustices that Blackbushe Airport has suffered for six decades under the local government boot.. It's time for change at Blackbushe! 2021 will surely be a better year for all than the one we're hoping to conclude, but there are no words suitable to comfort the many thousands of families for whom this Christmas will be one where a significant chair will now be empty.
For you we grieve.Stepping back to Blackbushe casting 2020 out of our focus for a moment, a fond gaze gaze at the main apron's activity over the years..From the end of WW2 until the end of May 1960... commercial transport was the name of the game on Blackbushe's once huge apron..From holiday makers to Her Royal Highness, Prime Ministers & Presidents, movie stars and moguls, Blackbushe Airport hosted them all..A large and lonesome apron in the early sixties..aeroplanes were now smaller and also quite rare..Local Parish bureaucracy had no qualms as to showing their mysterious opposition to the greatest asset in their precinct..The Parish Council's destruction of Blackbushe 'east' introduced a fire hazard as it changed into wild scrub..The wonders of early "fly-ins".."Farnborough Weeks" brought a full apron from the mid sixties onward until we had to use the cross runways for parking too..Warbirds had their day under the Arnold regime..More recent times, the business jet, flying schools and private owners continue to frequent the apron and treasured acres of Blackbushe once given up the Government, persecuted by various local interests and hounded by politicians. Booming Blackbushe operator "UK Flying Clubs" have just taken delivery of their 22nd aircraft, an immaculate Beech Baron.Riding the gloom of present days, Blackbushe views the future squaring up to her antagonists in the highest courts in the land, and will continue to enhance the Blackbushe product into 2021 as her home based residential fleet continues to grow in size..
PB
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