AIRAIR YY RKSHIRERKSHIRE AviationAviation SocietySociety Volume 45 · Issue 4 April 2019 ZM413ZM413 RAFRAF AtlasAtlas 400M400M LeedsLeeds BradfordBradford AirportAirport 1616 FebruaryFebruary 20192019 JimJim StanfieldStanfield www.airyorkshire.org.uk Monthly meetings/presentations.... The Media Centre, Leeds Bradford Airport Tuesday 7 May 2019 @ 7pm Steven Small – Brand Director, Routes Organisation. Steven will give us in insight into the ROUTES business which is focused entirely on aviation route development and the company's portfolio includes events, media and online businesses. Routes events are a source of breaking news in the aviation industry. Announcements about new air services are frequently made at the events, and the high profile discussions at the conference frequently hit the headlines. 2 June 2019 @ Dave Ward - Fun in Flight Test. Partly humorous overview of his career, mainly in the 2.30pm Flight Test Department at BAe Warton. It includes some detail of why we have a Flight Test Department at all and how it works. 7 July 2019 @ Aldon Ferguson – We welcome back Aldon to Air Yorkshire. This time Aldon will be 2.30pm presenting his in depth study of Church Fenton with many photos, both old and new. Aldon is a very experienced speaker with an excellent presentation style. Society news.... Alan Sinfield Photographs from Leeds Bradford Airport – You will notice that there are only two photographs of commercial aircraft in the LBA Airline Movements section. The reason for this is that I only received these two photographs. I am sure more photographs have been taken by members who don't normally send them in. If you are unsure how to provide photographs please ask me! Murgatroyd's Fish & Chip Lunch - The next one is on Saturday 11th May 2019 at 1200. Please contact Geoff Ward to book your place on 0113 270 9980 or [email protected] “Arty Photographs” - unless I get a few more good entries this competition will cease to exist. Don't forget the winner receives £25 2 Trips 2019.... Howard Griffin RAF Museum Hendon, Saturday April 13th We still need another 6 people on this trip. Newly refurbished at a cost of £3M, with quite a few aircraft swopped and the Typhoon is back from Canada. We’ve booked our slot at the Museum and a guided tour is available at an additional cost of £3 each if we get 12 persons who want to partake of the offer. So far only 1 person said they would like this and it has to be pre-booked. At £30 each it is very good value for a day out with no entrance fee so bring along your sons/grandsons and show off your aviation knowledge. Payment now required please either cash or cheque (payable to Air Yorkshire) at next meeting please or post to me at 6 Acre Fold, Addingham, LS29 0TH Pick up’s: (Steels Coaches of Addingham) 07:15 am Addingham, ( Fleece pub) – with free parking at the Memorial Hall car park 07:30 Menston (Golf Shop-Station Road) 07:45 am Fink Hill (free) car park , Horsforth 08:00 Elland Road, by the Billy Bremner statue. lots of parking around but beware Leeds are playing at home that day. dep 17:00 on return so should be back between 9 and 10pm AYAS visit to Airbus A350 Wings factory –Chester Now booked for Wednesday September 11th. A chance for 20 members to see inside the newest of the wing fabrication plants. These are very popular tours so book early . Closing date for booking a place is 11th August. It will cost £10.00 each for charity and I will need lots of details at least 2 weeks beforehand. We have to be there no later than 09:45 and the tour lasts until 1pm. I was lucky to get this tour so please support it. Dates for your diary Easter weekend - Hot Air Balloons at Thornton-in-Craven (normally early lift between 0600- 0800 and then at 13;00 Monday 22 April 2019 - Easter Fly-in at Sherburn Aero Club Monday 6 May 2019 - Fishburn Airfield Fly-In Tuesday 4th June - “Daks over Normandy”. Over 30 Dakotas (plus a LI-2) at Duxford many of which are never seen in the UK. 12 coming over from the USA, Book on the IWM website for entrance and car parking Friday 14th June - Aero Expo – High Wycombe Saturday 22nd/23rd June - Air Britain Fly-in Turweston 19th to 21st July - RIAT 2019 Fairford 3 To Montego Bay.... Alan Sinfield Manchester to Montego Bay, Jamaica 29 Jan 2019 - TUI Airways G-TUIL Boeing 787-900 I wasn’t planning on writing a flight report on this occasion as I wasn’t expecting much difference to the flight last year to Barbados. However, this flight turned out to be somewhat more unfortunate…. The seats we were allocated were in the middle of the economy cabin just in front of some toilets and we were seated across the aisle. I was a little concerned that we were to be near the toilets, but in the end it wasn’t really an issue when compared to the other trials and tribulations of the flight! We boarded via the temporary gate at Manchester’s Terminal 2 and then taken by bus to the very new Boeing 787-900 of TUI Airways. The flight appeared to be fully boarded, but there was a spare seat in front of Alison, but then a female finally came and took the seat and immediately apologised to everyone around her that it may be difficult as she had already been sick in the terminal. At that point we didn’t really think too much of it as she took her seat. However, without going into too much detail, she vomited many many times during the flight into sickbags, plastic bags and onto the floor. She went to the toilet on many occasions (quite near if you remember!) and was a real nuisance for the cabin crew by not putting on her seatbelt when requested and wanting to go into the toilet during landing… Not a pleasant experience at all…. She initially said it was nerves, but I wasn’t convinced, and we both fully expected to be brought down with the same symptoms a few days later. However, during the flight she kept saying that she easily got travel sick on all forms of transport, and then told us she was on fortnightly injections for her depression. She was also travelling alone as the rest of her family was flying to Montego Bay from Gatwick (Well done family!). When we departed the aircraft she told us she was flying back two weeks later… Oh dear , we certainly hoped we wouldn’t be sitting near her on that journey. Is that the end of this article?? No there is more to come! We had departed, more or less on time from Manchester and we were expected to arrive in Montego Bay 20 minutes ahead of schedule. Great, more time to settle in on the ship and a glass of wine. About 20 minutes from landing we were informed that we would be entering the hold as the weather in Montego Bay was poor due to rain lashing down on the airport. Another TUI plane from Gatwick was ahead of us, but we still expected to land on time. Little did we know at the time, but eventually the TUI plane ahead of us attempted to land but due to the amount of water on the runway, did a touch and go as they wouldn’t have managed stop otherwise…. We were then informed that we were to divert to Norman Manley International Airport at Kingston, Jamaica, as was the other TUI flight and other aircraft in the hold. Some 20 mins or so later and having travelled 80 miles, we landed in a bright and sunny Kingston. 4 Not surprisingly we would need to refuel for the flight back to Montego Bay when the weather cleared, but that proved to be a problem when we landed as there were no stands available where refuelling was possible. We then remained on the ground for some while (Not sure how long), but at least the captain kept us informed, the cabin crew provided water, one of the doors was opened, and the lady next to us continued to be sick!. We thought we might have been taken by bus to Montego Bay, but having eventually seen the number of available shuttle buses at Montego Bay, that clearly wasn’t an option. Eventually we were provided with a stand so we were then pulled onto that stand for refuelling, but we were told everything was performed on “Jamaica time”, which was a common theme whilst in Jamaica. Refuelling was completed and the flight crew needed to do a walk around. Guess what, the aircraft hadn’t been quite lined up with the airbridge for the Captain to desiembark, so again we had to wait “Jamacian time” for the tug to move us forward… Eventually after about three hours on the ground we took off (At least I got another flight!), landing 24 minutes later in a very wet Montego Bay. The aircraft taxied off the runway and STOPPED. Apparently the airport had mixed up the available stands and the TUI before us (the one that diverted to Kingston) had been given our stand and the one were allocated wasn’t a 787 one… Eventually we moved onto an airbridge stand and we disembarked. When we went to Barbados last year we went down the aircraft steps straight onto the buses to takes us to the cruise ship.