Blogs

A country tale of the unexpected ByHM Stevens The picturesque little Suffolk village of Lower Butley and the lush green valley in which it nestled were swamped in a sea of darkness as heavy rain gorged clouds lumbered slowly across the black skyline, blotting out the...

A recent flying trip to Scotland by HM Stevens Yep, Life’s a Beach, well that’s what it says on the T-Shirt! On a recent flying trip to Scotland, I achieved another ambition in my flying career and that was to land on the beach on the Isle of Barra in the Outer...

A Ghost Story by HM Stevens (A true story based on actual events although the place of the actual occurrence has been embellished) It was my first tour of night duty after a pleasant and restful spell of five days off, rest days that I had accumulated from working...

Ships Log Star Date 2007 – Cape Town to Tenerife We sailed from Cape Town as the sun dipped over the horizon in the west with just the top of table mountain still basking in the glowing sunset reflecting the last dying embers of the day, like the back of a glorious...

Supporters’ DayA day out with the Royal Navy Historic Flight at RNAS YeoviltonHM Stevens When the email dropped into my ‘In Box’ from the Fly Navy Historic Trust inviting me and a guest to visit the Royal Navy Historic Flight at Yeovilton one Saturday last September,...

An FAA Squadron ‘Fly In’ to the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Trust at East Kirkby on 19th May 2018 Dawn on Saturday 19th May broke with a cloudless blue sky, ideal aviating weather for our ‘Fly In’ to East Kirkby, just a stone’s throw from RAF Coningsby. Well it was...

Fleet Air Arm Squadron ‘Fly In’ 14th May 2016 And bust it very nearly was thanks to the management or should I say the mis-management of the airfield at Elvington. I originally booked our ‘Fly In’ way back at the beginning of the year when our flying programme was...