“Wing Walkers”

 George Dent arrived in the car park, avoiding the boulders to the sound of the “Battle of Britain March” and the cheery melody of “Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines” and proceeded to glide around the area with my imaginary wings catching the strong breeze.
In the circle Piltdown Man posed the question “What was the name of the wartime airfield which inhabited the area to the west of us?” Several disturbing guesses later Smellie chirped in with “Heron”, and won the pint.
For interest it was originally made into a landing strip and named HALDON in 16ft letters by Bill Parkhouse in 1928, and he was the first to fly his Avro on to the heath.
The hares in there flying kit laid out the details of our flight plan. We were expecting a flight of nearly one hour with an en-route fueling stop. Care was to be taken crossing the busy corridors en route.
We started with a loop the loop to the east of the car park before crossing the B3192 and entering HMS Heron 11 as was. A meandering trail with a little turbulence saw us heading in the general direction of Exeter Airport but lack of fuel caused us to redirect east towards Smallacombe Farm. Our circuit nearly complete we descended rapidly to the refuelling stop at the 13th Century remains of Lidwell chapel. We were offered chocolate heroes and Haribo packets. I did not have de Hawibo bags cos vey make me sick and my Mummy says vats not nice. We saw no trace of the evil, murdering monk as we sank slowly to our ankles in the mud, but the spooky balloons were still glowing after we left.
It was a struggle to regain our altitude prior to the landing but climb we did and returned to the B3192 to try and navigate our way back to our landing strip.
Thanks to the Hares for a very interesting and well planned flight.
In Dicey Reilly's Hornie received a down down for shortcutting to the pub missing the trail completely. Zoot was nominated by her co-hares to receive a down-down on their behalf for a good days work. There were others which I fail to remember but I can report the naming of “Manopausal”, so good they did it twice!
Deliciously tasty food was provided for £2 in the pot plus any extra you could manage for the Lifeboats Charity, which was to be the beneficiary of the collection.
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George Dent SCB and Bar