Well, what a summer it is so far! After a rather shaky start weather wise we are currently experiencing something of a heatwave. In terms of flying weather, it has been fantastic and pretty much every event recently has benefitted from almost perfect conditions, we have had a sustained period of high pressure and north-easterly … Read More
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 hence the delay in producing the current update but there have been regular Facebook updates as well as the usual … Read More
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 at Buckminster and how much has changed in a relatively short space of time (it feels like the year has … Read More
Season Ticket Application Form 2018 -July onwards
General It has been yet another busy month at the National Centre with a steady increase in day to day activity as well as regular event bookings at weekends. The season ticket holders are making good use of the site and the facilities and we now have over 40 season tickets (against the first year … Read More
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 a look at the site. Season ticket sales are still going fairly well and we have comfortably exceeded the (very … Read More
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 the first weekend in June plus a couple of turn up and fly weekends. Radioglide saw two good competition days … Read More
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 factors but we feel it is better to make an early decision than stage an unsuccessful (and potentially expensive) event. … Read More
Congratulations to Chris Vincent who today became the first BMFA member to pass an Achievement Scheme test at the BMFA National Centre. Chris passed his Fixed Wing Power A test and is pictured receiving his pass certificate from Andy Symons the BMFA Club Support Officer and an Area Chief Examiner. Chris is a BMFA Buckminster … Read More
Buckminster Blog May 8th Opening day Just a quick update for opening day at the National Centre. We still have contractors on site tidying up the final elements of the building work but we opened the doors as planned. The weather was pretty grim with a chilly 8 degrees on the clock but with the … Read More
