BBC Archives - Microlight Rally

Came across a great video the other day on the BBC website.

The footage is from 1987 and has been reclaimed and published by the blokes at the BBC archive - Fascinating to watch.

Anyway, the 30 minute film is about a Microlight rally from Cumbria to the East coast of England. Back then Microlight Flying was still in its infancy, but nevertheless was established enough to have capable airworthy aircraft available.

Most of the trikes shown are old Mainair Flash 1s which were probably top-of-the-range back then. There are still plenty of them about and flying!

We can't embed the link into the blog, so we will just have to link to it from here

Cheers, Victor

BBC1 Northern Exposure - LLB & his wife Jackie!

Hello All,

We had a couple of b-list celebs down at the airstrip at the start of June to do a TV show.Lawrence Llewellyn-bowen(does the BBC holiday and Changing rooms programmes) and his wife Jackie travelled across Northern Ireland visiting all six counties, trying out restaurants, hotels and activities in each of them.

For the Armagh programme they visited the airfield and LLB went for a quick flight. Things didnt quite go according to plan, but not too sure how much the BBC will dramaticise the fact! They got some decent air-air footage with bullet cams mounted on the wing and front strut, and we managed to get a great spell of weather for it.

The Armagh edition is showing on BBC Northern Ireland at 9pm Friday 1st August, with a repeat on Sunday. The BBC IPlayer will have the show online for a week after the showing. Hopefully it will be listed as one of their favourites and will be listed on the Northern Exposure website from Friday night. Hopefully they will have got my good side ;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/northernexposure/

Cheers, Victor
www.flyni.co.uk