First flight in a tiny plane!
My first flight in a microlight: Ikarus C42 from Old Sarum Airfield near Salisbury, UK.
My aerobatic flight in a de Havilland Tiger Moth DH82A
On April 20th 2019 I flew in a de Havilland Tiger Moth DH82A bi-plane with GoFly Salisbury over the Salisbury/Stonehenge area of Wiltshire. The flight does include two loop the loops and one stall turn after turning round to fly back to Old Sarum Airfield. It was a wonderful flight and a fantastic experience. I highly recommend GoFly Salisbury.
Fly Fishing in the UK | Pt.1 of 3 | (www.NorfolkFlyFishing.com)
Fly Fishing in the UK | Pt.1 of 3
In this video, part 1 of 3, Tim Gaunt-Baker (AAPGAI) from norfolkflyfishing.com gives a brief insight into the history of fly fishing in the UK and the joys of fly fishing on some of the many beautiful rivers here in England.
Transcript:
Interviewer: So, Tim, what's the fly fishing like in the UK?
Tim Gaunt-Baker:
Well, UK fly fishing has been established many years. It goes back to the early 1600s where Treatyse, which was a book in those days, by Dame Juliana Berners all about fishing with long poles and rods to catch trout. And (in fact) it goes back even further than that to the Macedonians catching fish with hooks and lines in the first century. So nothing's new about fishing and fly fishing in England particularly is seen by the rest of the world as probably one of the places where fly fishing actually was born; particularly dry fly fishing.
So we've got some very famous rivers: the River Test in the south of England, which runs out into the sea near Southampton; we've got Derbyshire Wye and the (River) Dove, all written about in history going back into the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s. There was a wonderful man called Harford, who wrote books on fly fishing in the 1800s when it got really popular during the industrial revolution from the people in London coming down to the (River) Test. They would come down from London on a train and disembark and they would get their bikes or the carriages out and trot down to the (River)Test an go fly fishing.
Interviewer: Where does the (River) Test run from?
Tim: Well the (River) Test runs from hills of Salisbury Plain right out into the sea; it's about 20 odd miles long or a bit more and it is true chalk stream. To be a true chalk stream it has to run over chalk all the time, it's based on chalk and the beauty about chalk is the clarity of water, which is so important.
Inteviewer: What does the chalk actually do for the clarity of the water?
Tim Gaunt-Baker: Well, it acts as a filter and keeps the clarity there and it gives a really good, vibrant fly life because the insects like the type of water that they are in and they lay their eggs and they hatch in there. Then we've got the freestone rivers which are the Derbyshire Wye and the .....well...not so much the Derbyshire Wye because that has a degree of chalk but some of the other rivers like th Wharfe.
Interviewer: And what do you actually mean by a 'freestone' river?
Tim Gaunt-Baker: Well a freestone river is a river where the river comes of the hills and roams over boulders and rocks and gravel and that is a different type of habitat but again a very exciting habitat for fly fishing.
Interviewer: And what is the comparison of clarity between chalk stream and frestone rivers?
Tim Gaunt-Baker: Well there's clarity in both beccause both in their own way: because it's (a freestone river) running over rock all the time it doesn't get silted up therefore it's clear. You'll find that when you get to the lower parts of these rivers, particularly on the freestone rivers, they'll get into a slow, muddy, rather grungy looking stuff, likenthe river just up here that we've been looking at, the River Ouse, the Great Ouse, which comes right the way from Bedfordshire, all the way through Cambridgeshire and out to sea near King's Lynn. (It's) one of the major rivers in East Anglia in fact.
Now there are no trout just around here, (but) having said that, sea trout run this river. They very often find them up at Denver Sluice which is, as you know, about 10 miles from here.
Interviewer: And we are in Norfolk (Downham Market).
Tim Gaunt-Baker: And that's in Norfolk, yes. So, there're a lot ot of different rivers; in England and the UK as a whole there are some tremendous fly fishing opportunities.
Interviewer: What about up in Scotland? What's the fly fishing like in Scotland?
Tim Gaunt-Baker: Well the fishing in Scotland, is traditionally .... probably everyone thinks of Salmon fishing and that's probably very true........
........continued in Fly Fishing UK Pt.2 and Pt3
Go sky dive 15000ft old sarum airfield
River Wylye Fly Fishing
Dave of Go Fly Fishing UK guiding on the River Wylye Fisherton beat on 18th May 2010.
Miles Jupp in The Life I Lead
Best remembered for playing Mr Banks in Disney’s Mary Poppins, David Tomlinson was renowned for playing the classic English gent. In this new comedy, The Life I Lead, Miles Jupp, one of Britain’s leading stand-up comedians and actors (The Thick of It, The News Quiz, Mock the Week and The Durrells) brings David Tomlinson’s remarkable story to life.
The Life I Lead is at Salisbury Playhouse from 14-16 March 2019
Dads Tiger Moth Flight
My Dad's Tiger Moth flight at GoFly, Hangar 3, Old Sarum Airfield, Old Sarum, Salisbury SP4 6DZ
Old Sarum Airfield Closed - Last TWO visiting aircraft paid their respects
Old Sarum Airfield Closed - Last two visiting aircraft paid there respects
So today at 1700 on the 31st October Old Sarum Airfield has closed
A World War One airfield has closed three months after plans to build 470 homes on the site were rejected.
Old Sarum Airfield, in Wiltshire, was still in use after being built in 1917 as a training station during the war.
The airfield's manager Grenville Hodge said he was incredibly disappointed, but said the site had to be closed to stop the losses.
A planning inspector upheld a council decision in July not to allow homes to be built on the protected site.
Mr Hodge said plans by the airfield to regenerate the site were also blocked by local planners.
What we can do is stop making the losses now. We are haemorrhaging funds, he added.
He said the planned regeneration, which also included new buildings for aviation, would have helped maintain flying activity.
Mr Hodge added alternative plans for the site could now see it being used for agriculture.
Cressbrook and Litton Flyfishers water on the Derbyshire Wye
The trout,flies and scenery of the Cressbrook and Litton Flyfishers water on the Derbyshire Wye.
Circuits At Old Sarum
This video is about Untitled Project 1
River Kennet Fly Fishing Barton Court
Dave of Go Fly Fishing UK (goflyfishinguk.com) guiding on the River Kennet Barton Court beat on 5th July 2010.
A River Test Trout comes to the net
Part two of a two part video showing a lady fly fisher landing a good sized River Test Brown Trout. She had fish up to 20 in this session - all on dry flies. Guided by Dave Martin of Go Fly Fishing UK.
River Test near Romsey
13th May and Mayfly season on the River Test. Dave of Go Fly Fishing UK guiding clients on a scenic beat of the lower River Test.