Blue Eagles Team News Archive

Archived 30 August 2001

The Friday practice day from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone 1999, live!

The day started early as Cuz, the Team Manager, and Shaun, Eagle Lead, left Middle Wallop for Silverstone shortly after 09:00 in the solo Gazelle. Arriving at Silverstone, a recconaissance of the site was flown, prior to the main Team arrival in the early evening. Shaun then flew a solo display to Queen’s "It’s a kind of magic" which was televised across the site. Tomorrow, the whole Team will fly a full display, so stay tuned for some outstanding photographs taken in the air by Jez Beynon.

This page shows the air to ground shots of the reconnaisance flight, followed by Shaun’s solo display, and then Blue Eagles fan Joseph Mawby being treated to a tour of the Gazelle cockpit by Shaun.

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Running in to crowd centre on the reconnaissance flight	Looking up the track from the Southern end of the central airfield
Shaun marks the compass heading of the A axis for the display	The centre of Silverstone becoms a town for the weekend.
The Gazelle’s office.	The Gazelle parked at Silverstone.
Shaun, Eagle Lead, did a solo display that was very well received by the Silverstone crowd.
Cuz Curry, Team Manager, and Shaun Wyatt, Eagle Lead, brief prior to Shaun’s solo display	Shaun starts up and checks in with Silverstone
The middle of the display includes a good, hard pull up to the vertical….	….followed by an equally hard push to the vertical the other way!
Coming into land after a very successful display	Blue Eagles fan Joseph Mawby gets the full brief from Eagle Lead!
Click here to see the Team’s display from Silverstone on Saturday. Following the display, the Team had a Photocall. Click here to see the pictures.

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