There cannot have been any UK flying for the first few days of 2012, with wind & rain widespread and wet fields. However our fingers are crossed for high pressure & frost for the forthcoming Icicle Meet (Jan 7/8) at Savernake Forest, Wilts. Certainly the main social event, the Saturday dinner is selling out fast - must be the pull of our BBAC President and ‘4 men-on-a-raft’ speaker Anthony Smith. Again this issue sees a good number of envelopes join the List but only 2 deletions. We suspect that there should be more so have instigated the annual round up of old ads - your responses to our forthcoming emails will be greatly appreciated in an effort to keep the List ‘clean’. The additions range from a complete AS105GD airship in Germany, an almost new 77 in Belgium, a UK based complete 90 & complete 180 to a UK 315 and Italian based Kubicek special shape ‘BB-S/Fish’. The last mentioned quickly replaces the Michelin man which generated several enquiries after appearing in the last List and has now been sold. Also new this issue are two very clean fans at Zebedee - one a 5.5hp, the other an 8hp, a 105 bottom end in Belgium, oxygen system in Eire, retrieve vehicle in UK and several Situations Vacant for crew in Southern England with Go Ballooning - these should surely be snapped up if what we are told about the labour market is true... One of our regular advertisers, Tim Revel has just announced his retirement from ballooning after 28 years in the sport. Tim has been working for Ultramagic for the past 12 years and will hand over his task to Richard Penney at the Icicle Meet. We wish Tim and Hilary well in their new adventures and Richard in his new post. Finally another of our long term advertisers Chris Dunkley (as Wendover Trailers & the Balloon Repair Station) has just set up an EASA Part M Subpart F & G CAMO as Easy Balloons. For the run down on services provided, the band members & lots of other ballooning info - all written in Chris’ usual laid back style - see www.easyballoons.co.uk. We wish you well... 40th
Icicle Balloon Meet At Warren Farm, Savernake Forest,
Marlborough, Wilts SN8 3BQ. Reminder about Change of Ownership
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