[caption id="attachment_1860" align="alignleft" width="250"] Enjoy aerobatic manoeuvres in the French designed Robin 2160 light aircraft[/caption] Being fans of all things French, we pricked up our ears when we heard we had to write about our new aerobatics experience in Norfolk in the French built and designed Robin 2160i light aircraft. A good looking little plane, the low-wing aerobatics trainer is a recent evolution of the Robin H series plane, which was designed based on the original Jean Delemontez-designed Robin series by Christophe Heintz. The first prototype flew on the 19th July 1971. The first in the R2000 series flew on...
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[caption id="attachment_1853" align="alignright" width="250"] A aerial view of RAF Manston taken by Luftwaffe planes in 1939[/caption] We've just added a new trial flying lesson activity which takes place at Kent International Airport near Folkestone. Whilst researching the new venue, we found out the airfield has a rather interesting history. RAF Manston as the airport was previously known, has always played a high-profile military role in both war and peace time. During the First World War planes used a very precarious-sounding cliff top grass runway and as you might guess, this led to several accidents, so the landing strip was moved...
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[caption id="attachment_1850" align="alignright" width="250"] A Mother's Day present with a difference - get Mum making her own jewellery![/caption] We've only just 'recovered' from St Valentine's Day and yet Mother's Day is nearly open us, with the big day being Sunday 14th March this year. The shops are full of no-go options for our Mum : chocolates (cholesterol), cute teddy bears (has too many already), perfume (brings her out in a rash) and underwear. Just who buys their Mum underwear for Mother's Day?! That's just wrong. So, we turned to our faithful friend the t'internet and it has to be said...
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[caption id="attachment_1816" align="alignright" width="250"] Northern boy Peter Kay did a fine job in front of all those southerners hosting the 2010 Brit Awards[/caption] We just LOVE the Brit awards. All the glitz and glamour mixed with the bad jokes and the bad behaviour, it really is a great show. And this year's gathering of stars was no exception. Who could not cringe at Jonathan Ross's lame performance? Who didn't laugh when comic host Peter Kay described Lady Gaga as New York's Su Pollard? And who'd have thought they'd wheel out Mel B and Geri from the Spice Girls to collect...
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[caption id="attachment_1796" align="alignright" width="250"] The Into the Blue team has a go on the Easyglider transporters in our company car park![/caption] One of our suppliers came all the way from Berkshire to see us at Into the Blue HQ in Kent the other day in a van loaded with Easygliders for us to try! Of course, we weren't short of volunteers to head out to the ITB car park and give it a whirl on these admittedly rather odd looking gadgets. Designed in Switzerland, the Easyglider was born out of the idea of having a light, eco-friendly and easily transportable...
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