Welcome to my site, which I set up after a flying holiday to the United States. During the planning stage I found a number of websites really useful where pilots had taken the time to detail their previous trips. These sites have inspired me to dig out my photos in the hope that:

1. It provides ideas and recommendations of places for fellow flying tourists to visit.

2. It will help promote Aerotech, the excellent aircraft maintenance facility at Coventry Airport, where I am lucky enough to fly in my spare time.

3. It will simply provide interest and enjoyment to anyone who finds aircraft and flight fascinating.

Please do not use the photos without permission, but by contacting me on

airclark@compuserve.com

I may be able to provide better resolution originals.

Flying from Aerotech Aircraft Maintenance Ltd at Coventry Airport.

You can find out more information on Aerotech by clicking on the link below:

Link to Aerotech Aircraft Maintenance

On a Chippy run from RAF Halton Flying Club

 Click here for my short little movie of a Chippy spin

 Also click here for my RAF Lyneham Movie

Click here to see my article on Ratcliffe Aerodrome and the plaque above

For GA touring pics click below on:

Touring Scotland and Ireland

Touring the Scilly Isles

Touring Arizona and Utah

 Touring Germany

Coming Very Soon … Touring Idaho and Montana

Click here to Learn How to Fly in Half an Hour!

Some Flying Highlights:

The one you never forget. First solo Cranwell North 1985.

Flying the secret Cold War deterrent from its hardened bunker at RAF Bruggen around 1990. Our lovely Bolkow 208 Junior, still owned by Derek.

Trying to look competent on Red Nose Day 1999 whilst colleague, Miles, looks away in despair.

(Hence a little computer manipulation of the BA logo)

Glide landing onto the grass at Cov after C337 airtest when right main gear failed to lock down.

Spare time flying with a fantastic set of people at Formula 1.

(above: Budapest airport for the Hungarian Grand Prix 1999) 

Flying down the valleys in the BAe146 for the great approach to Saanen in Switzerland.

Doing OUZO's last flight from Athens to London in March 2000, for many years she was Virgin's only A320.

Happy Days... now lost forever. Virgin Sun RIP

A potential problem with a highly automated Airbus can be a "monkey see, monkey do" mentality !!

One of the very last Sun flights 2001, with Martin and Jason showing why the airline will be missed by all.

An A340 has 4 thrust levers but no control column, so how do you turn?

"What you do is press hard on top of the right side of the panel like this... and she banks right, see!"

Looking up from the flightdeck at the reflection of the A340-600 in the windows of the Terminal at Shanghai.

Current little beauty at our hilltop strip in Northants.The fabulous Maule M5-235C.

And coming soon I will try and scan some of my photos from my earlier days before digital cameras made it all so easy.

Such as the Cranwell Tiger above, flown by Clive Moreton back in 1985, while I hang out the back of the cub being flown by "Dickie" Bird.