Articles by Andy Symons

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Spring 2018 Update

The eagle eyed amongst you will notice that previous blogs have generally been designated by month, whereas this offering goes under the much vaguer title of spring, it’s been a busy start to the year…


December 2017 Blog

Site In order to produce the December2017 Blog I had a quick look back at the same month in 2016. Reading the update from 12 months ago really highlighted how much progress has been made…



September – October Blog

Buckminster Blog September/October We are overdue a Blog for the National Centre so this one is a snapshot for September and October. It has been a full on Autumn at BMFA Buckminster and it is…



July Blog – 25/7/2017

General It continues to be fairly busy at the National Centre with an increasing number of regular flyers making use of the facilities as well as a good stream of first timers coming to take…


June Blog 21-6-2017

Events It has been a busy few weeks at the National Centre with the BARCS Radioglide event taking place over the late May Bank Holiday followed by the BMFA University and Schools Payload Challenge over…


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Summer Airshow Postponed

We have taken the decision to postpone the summer Airshow set to take place over the weekend 29th/30th of July, this decision has not been taken lightly and has been based on a number of…



Buckminster Blog – 17/5/2017

Well we are at last benefiting from the required rain to get the runway seed started which is great news, of course on the downside it hasn’t really been flying weather so it has been…