I have been flying gliders here for 33 years and I am wary of it on every single flight' he said. The police officer noted the information but it did not occur to anyone that the public sightings should be revisited to see if any had been dismissed based on timing. At the 2005 Lasham Regional competition, then aged 82, he completed a triangular 'Diamond C' 505km (313.8-mile) flight, returning to Lasham with the task 'in the bag' after seven hours and 14 minutes in the air. I agree. Its current captain is Antoine Aulnette. But they were dismissed as having occurred before the aircraft had departed. Cq`cJfXd8/tP yi'l zOq [3][4] Lasham Gliding Society. LGS's 90+[6] instructors train new pilots at all stages from ab initio through to competitive cross-country flying. 'The accident is currently under investigation by the South African Civil Aviation Authority and the provincial police. Since then, it had flown a total of seven hours flight time. No flight plans were filed, neither of the planes had radios and the weather briefing was listening to the local AM radio station. It has for most of its life flown from Lasham Airfield in Hampshire after transferring from Redhill in 1951. The crack in the heat exchange unit may have also played a role. While the weather on the day of the accident may have been changeable, it was still suitable for flying, the report says. 148 K-13 substantial 08/08/15, 15:00 lasham GS 55/40 none/none 407 Introductory flight ended in a field landing. 'They are thinking about flying out there. At the last minute, he saw the cables in his path and pitched up steeply while increasing the engine power. It was clear from the start that the clouds were low enough to make it difficult for a visual flight. Police were also informed. 'Our thoughts at this stage are with Peter's family.' The heat muffler had deposits of lead and bromine on the heater mufflers exhaust, left behind by the high octane fuel fumes which had seeped through the cracks into the heater system. As well as Tony Deane-Drummond, other notable instructors at that time included Ann Welch, Lorne Welch and Philip Wills. When the aircraft were not needed for towing, the pilots were encouraged to use them for private flights. Although, who am I to write that? The club also operates five tugs: and can call on several privately owned tugs in busy periods. These gliders pick up enormous speed very quickly when they go into a vertical dive. The following morning, a club member reported to one of the Society officials that the Super Cub was not in the hanger. The pilot attempted to turn back to the airfield but hit the ground whilst turning and impacted one of the airfield hangars. Copyright Lasham Gliding Society 2021 One dead in mid-air glider crash. A FATAL mid-air crash between two gliders near Lasham, south of Basingstoke, has revealed the need for such aircraft to be more visible to one another, an . A number of private pilots from Lasham and Blackbushe attempted their own aerial reconnaissance, exploring the South Downs and the New Forest in hopes of finding signs of a crash. The Super Cub reappeared below the clouds and turned left. The advantages of this for us are that we have full use of Lashams fleet of gliders (as well as our own) and facilities. More than twenty firefighters from across north Hampshire have dealt with a serious fire at Lasham gliding club near Alton. 3[OX6m]hpl@8%^`wvWv.t;#R2w3"'OAp"PUT TQ]o gq' Y#xb z o As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. The airfield ceased to be an operational Royal Air Force station in 1948, though General Aircraft Ltd continued testing military gliders there. I'm excited and thanks for the discount. About half a mile beyond the tunnel, there is a line of power cables crossing the track from north east to south west. On 14 September 2006, a memorial at the entrance was dedicated to those who served at Lasham between 1942 and 1948. On Monday (September 20) a glider crashed with two people on board at Lasham Airfield near Alton. Piper did not immediately get the expected military orders and considered releasing the aircraft for civil use, which may be why they reverted to the PA-18 designation: once in production, the military variant became known as the L-18C Super Cub. With no visibility, no instrument training and only minimal instruments, the pilot quickly lost situational awareness. London Air Traffic Control passed the details to ATC Centres at Preston and Redbrae, as well as the French Airways Supervisor in Paris. 'Peter was married with two children and was an airline captain with Flybe. The Society manager officially reported the flight as overdue. The pilot of the other glider - 45-year-old Graham Robertson from Ascot - managed to parachute from his plane to safety. That evening, around 20:30 local time, the pilots sister phoned the club to ask about his whereabouts. I was just lucky. Lasham is Europes largest gliding club. The two children of the British glider pilot killed on his 60th birthday in South Africa are 'devastated' and considering flying out to join their widowed mother. I won't send you spam. The person who was freed was then assessed and treated at the scene for non life-threatening injuries and was taken by SCAS crews to Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital. It had been imported into the UK that same year and added to the British Register as a PA-19 on the 13th of July 1971. 53 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<4BFACA647ACB49BDB8D743233CB82A1D><9ADBD6339BE19C49AAC75CEB69B9B57A>]/Index[29 45]/Info 28 0 R/Length 107/Prev 47122/Root 30 0 R/Size 74/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream Without knowing where the pilot was headed, there was little that they could do. Flybe airline captain Peter got into difficulties as he tried to climb and is believed to have stalled the glider and gone into a deadly spin and was unable to pull up the nose before crashing. cgPMi:waY&muy&d;i Ox/~;% A shop worker was attacked by three men after he confronted a thief who stole a sandwich. On the nights preceding and following D-Day, the Mosquitos of 305 and 613 squadrons carried out low level attacks on enemy supply lines and armoured positions in Normandy to assist the allied landing forces. Mike Clark said: 'On 19th November Peter Reading, a highly experienced member of Lasham Gliding Society, sustained fatal injuries while flying a JS1 glider out of Gariep Dam Airfield in South Africa. Find out how you can get more HampshireLive news straight to your inbox HERE . [8] There were approximately 59,000 aircraft movements (departures and landings) in that year (compared with Southampton Airport's 43,350). The only control was the verbal agreement from an official, with no paper trail. There were a small number of pilots who flew the aircraft on behalf of the club. Both of them have taken time off work. Three prototypes were built. We don't know what happened yet. Both gliders had taken off from Lasham airfield and their wreckage crashed into fields and a garden shed near the A339. Then there are small airfields, typically owned by a local private operator or flying club. The fire broke out early yesterday morning and has caused serious damage to the clubhouse. Eventually he probably got vertigo, or maybe he became victim of fumes from a broken heater. In 1952, future world champion Mike Hawthorn occasionally used its perimeter track to test his Cooper-Bristol Formula Two car, as did others.[5]. Eye witnesses said he got into difficulties shortly after take-off and it is thought the glider stalled due to lack of speed and it went into a deadly spin heading earthwards. On the 28th of August in 1971, G-AYPN departed Lasham Gliding Society and disappeared. On the 31st of October, two months after the flight had disappeared, a member of the public walking along a track through the forest saw the wreckage about 50 yards away. An aerodrome therefore is a place, usually licensed for public flight operations, mostly in the form of (light) private aviation. Please report any comments that break our rules. Derek Piggott was Chief Flying Instructor at Lasham during much of the period from 1953 to 1989. A scenario presents itself. It may have a paved runway, but does not usually support commercial flights. The third had an upgraded engine, a Continental C-90-12F, which set the ground work for the finished product. One of the pilots, who escaped unhurt after ejecting with a parachute, came down in woodlands near Lasham airfield in Alton, off the A339. Usually, the reports and analysis would be done in conjunction with the Rescue Co-ordination Centre but the police station had not dealt with such a situation before and worked through the incoming reports on their own. Regular visitors were DH104 Dove G-APZU (04511), Douglas Dakota G-AMPO (16437/33185), G-AMHJ (13468), G-AMPZ (16124/32872), G-AMRA (15290/26735), G-AMSV (16072/32820) Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. HlUyPT07FFTCCD 8HYZqwkMbh"rr(+nPkua?=GIuLUO{4h4{ux}My.#f>xe&3.02`j\zj^ #`K^K}C U d/T[dHKMMM`um}c hbbd``b`: $KAC@|S@b Xk6`1@J$k4PL We sent to the scene two ambulance crews, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance and an ambulance officer. But Ive just finished first-time author John Lancasters The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation (about a cross-country-and-back demo/race set up by Billy Mitchell in 1919), which says that airdrome was used for fields that were relatively near communities (rather than just being convenient to the route between Long Island and San Francisco). the 2nd-most movements in New England are at Hanscom Field, which supports lots of general aviation but only ~10,000 boardings per year more flying traffic but much less human traffic than airports at Manchester, Providence, or Windsor Locks (Bradley). In early 1951, he ordered Major Deane-Drummond to restart the club at Lasham. The RAF ceased operations in 1948, but an aircraft company, General Aircraft Ltd, continued to fly from the airfield. Several aircraft were parked at Lasham during the COVID-19 recession, including some from easyJet, TUI and Ryanair.[18]. LASHAM Gliding Society has paid tribute to one of its key members, killed when his glider crashed into a rocky hillside in South Africa. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. I dont think Ive ever heard/seen airdrome/aerodrome used outside of historical descriptions although this may be biased by my being relatively urban. Her body was taken to a nearby hospital mortuary where a post-mortem examination will be carried out early next week to establish the exact cause of her death. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information. The difference between an aerodrome and an airport is not really very clearly defined. It is under investigation. The horizontal visibility was around half a mile. Initial RAF operations (from November that year) were by 38 Wing, Army Co-operation Command.
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