Tag: 5452

Making up for lost time in view of yesterday’s bad weather, Greg had three outings today in DH.6s, concentrating on practice turns:

Date: 29.3.18 
Hour: 4.15 
Machine type and No.: DH5452 
Passenger: – 
Time: 20 mins 
Height: 1500 
Course: [Aerodrome] 
Remarks: Practice turns

Date: 29.3.18 
Hour: 6.10 
Machine type and No.: DH2130 
Passenger: – 
Time: 35 mins 
Height: 2300 
Course: [Aerodrome] 
Remarks: [Practice turns]

Date: 29.3.18 
Hour: 7.30 
Machine type and No.: DH7670 
Passenger: – 
Time: 30 mins 
Height: 2100 
Course: [Aerodrome] 
Remarks: [Practice turns]

The fact that it was Good Friday did not mean it was a holiday.

More practice, concentrating on landings.  Greg was always refreshingly honest when things didn’t go perfectly, including practice landings:

Date: 27.3.18 
Hour: 7.50 
Machine type and No.: DH7673 
Passenger: – 
Time: 45 mins 
Height: 2000 
Course: [Aerodrome] 
Remarks: Practice landings

Date: 27.3.18 
Hour: 9.15 
Machine type and No.: DH5452 
Passenger: – 
Time: 20 mins 
Height: 1800 
Course: [Aerodrome] 
Remarks: Practice landings (bumpy)

More practice flying in DH.6s:

Date: 26.3.18 
Hour: 5.15 
Machine type and No.: DH5452 
Passenger: – 
Time: 20 mins 
Height: 1000 
Course: Aerodrome 
Remarks: Practice

Date: 26.3.18 
Hour: 7.25 
Machine type and No.: DH7670 
Passenger: – 
Time: 20 mins 
Height: 1500 
Course: Aerodrome 
Remarks: Practice

It’s hard to tell from the log book whether these were

• two morning flights, one of them very early;
• two evening flights, one very late; or
• one early morning flight and one late evening flight.

Sunrise for today in Yatesbury was at 6.58 am and sunset at 7.29 pm (British Summer Time, which had started on 24 March 1918), so it is more likely that they were evening flights.  As the afternoon turned to evening and night, the weather, as reported by the Met Office for Salisbury Plain, turned from blue sky (not more than a quarter of the sky covered) to partly cloudy (one half covered), with gentle winds (Force 2) from the northwest.  A lovely evening for a 20 minute flight as the sun was setting.