Photo of the Day: The Eurovision Typhoo of 8008Sqn (painted in British Summer Grey & Green in honour of the bombers that took part in the Battle of Britain) takes its place in the Fast Aerial Response Team as the sole jet to defend British skies for 2024-34

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Ok word association time Bristol Andy Jenner G7KNA BEng CEng MICE Rachel Samantha Jenner

I wonder who’s got a new cat nip blanket?

ReTweeted (sorry reposted) as requested, hope you get plenty of coverage and plenty of interest, the training offer at SBARC has always been good.

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Fact of the Day: A Lancaster bomber delivered the first #chemtrails on the 31st Feb 1926 in Slough (Kent). Pilot Flt Lt Phil 'Iceman' Mitchell said 'Its just a ball of dust underneath my feet, It rolls around the sun, it doesn't mean that much to me'

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BREAKING: HMS Biggerboat has been scrambled (Sorry Sophie)

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G-QRP Convention videos released

Fact of the Day: The Hurricane was made from cardboard egg boxes as there was a shortage of metal and wood during WW1 in 1926, Engineers later removed the eggs to save weight which increased the range but lower protection level for the pilot.

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How good is that? Well done Sheffield Rachel Andy Jenner G7KNA BEng CEng MICE Samantha Jenner

Special event station GB0WYT is active from RAF Wyton for Airfields on the Air event 13/14 Apr. Call sign operated by RAF Air Cadet Communication Staff & Huntingdonshire ARS members. Active on HF bands, STC using CW, phone, RTTY, PSK31 & FT8. FM & SSB also in use on 2m band
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Listen to RSGB President John McCullagh, GI4BWM talk to BBC Radio 4 Feedback presenter, Andrea Catherwood about why Long Wave frequency is being shut down on the BBC. Feature starts at 19:55, with the RSGB President featuring at 22:18: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
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A team of UK amateurs will be operational in the Isle of Coll, Inner Hebrides from 14 April until 20 April.
IOTA ref: EU008.
Operators expect to be active using CW, FT8 & SSB on most bands from 160 to 10m as well as 2m band.
FFI: qrz.com/db/GB0SIC
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Photo of the Day: F15 escorts a baddy Tupperware B52 BEAR (Badly Engineered Aerial Rustbucket) from UK airspace as our one functional Eurovision Typhoon had a flat tyre and the 2 F35s are on holiday on HMS Runwayboat

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And we're just a few short minutes away from activating the former RAF Westonzoyland using call GB0WZL - look for us on 40m and 80m, and get our rare call in your logs, we only use it for two days a year!!

Good luck to Andy Jenner G7KNA BEng CEng MICE Greg (Big Bernie) 2W1BUF 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 who are at Weston Zoyland for Airfields on the air. Hope there are many contacts and many pictures

👻 GHOSTBUSTERS GIVEAWAY! 👻

in celebration of the recent release of the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire movie, we are giving away a Ghostbusters 3D Lamp to a LUCKY FAN!

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To help us get back into the mindset for reopening our #GatewayAviationSite tomorrow (Thursday 4th April), let's put some of our aircraft back onto the timeline!
newarkairmuseum.org/2024_Admission