#white waltham airfield

[opelman]

Harvard by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Built in 1942 by Noorduyn for the Royal Canadian Air Force, FE511 takes to the air for a pleasure flight from White Waltham Airfield. An hour or so later, this was my photoship for an air-to-air sortie with Hurricane R4118. Aircraft: Noorduyn AT-16 Harvard IIb G-CIUW/FE511. Location: White Waltham Airfield, near Maidenhead, Berkshire.

[world-of-wales]

─ •✧ CATHERINE'S YEAR IN REVIEW : 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 ✧• ─

𝟑 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : Catherine and William were spotted at White Waltham Airfield for George's flight lessons. Later, they spent time at the West London Aero Club.

𝟔 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : Catherine released a personal statement welcoming new UK Chief Scout Dwayne Fields FRGS.

𝟗 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : The Princess of Wales released a video by Will Warr and a series of photographs accompanied by a statement announcing the successful end of her cancer treatment & that she was in remission, however, she will be continuing her recovery.

𝟏𝟑 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : WillCat made a private donation to Pecan charity in aid of their recovery efforts following the theft food supplies from Southwark Foodbank.

𝟏𝟕 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : Catherine held an Early Years Meeting. This was the first official meeting that the Princess undertook sincerely the beginning of her cancer treatment.

𝟐𝟐 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : Catherine and William attended the Divine Service held in Crathie Parish Church. They spent a private Weekend in Balmoral.

𝟐𝟒 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : She held a Meeting at Windsor Castle for her annual Christmas Concert.

𝟐𝟔 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : Catherine attended a matinee performance of Akram Khan’s Giselle at Sadler Wells and sent a personal tweet congratulating the cast and crew. Catherine's unseen photograph with the Middletons was released as part of James Middleton's book 'Meet Ella'.

[houseofbrat]

Guess the kids suddenly don’t need privacy when their activities need to be leaked to distract from the negative reception to Mummy and Daddy’s pharmaceutical commercial 🙄

Interesting in that so many people were hailing Kate's video as heralding some "normalcy" or "celebration" or whatever, and George has been taking flying lessons all summer.

Yes, the kids' privacy suddenly isn't so important when the headlines aren't so glowing for the parents.

Also, flying planes at the age of 11 is so, so, sooooo relatable!

I don't know why more 11-year-olds aren't flying!!

[usafphantom2]

Topside Tuesday’

The Navy Wings Supermarine Seafire Mk. XVII SX336 doing what it says on the tin at the West London Aero Club Members Day at White Waltham Airfield last September…@WLACFlying #spitfire #rjmitchell #supermarine #vickers #warbirdphoto #warbirdpics

@Shutterbug_WGC via X

[danglovely]

Taskmaster Location Task Settings

Series 11: White Waltham Airfield White Waltham, Berkshire

[floydmtalbert]

“endless” and “return” from this prompts list, requested by @mercurygray ‘for your newest-to-you fandom!’

Okay, so we all said we wouldn’t come up with OCs for MotA before the show even came out, but, well. Meet Rosie Clifton, ATA pilot, who strolled into my head before I could tell her to wait her turn.

Twice a week she is put on taxi duty, flying the Anson from airfield to airfield to ferry the pilots to their next delivery. In the bluish half-light of dawn she taxies out and takes off, feeling the familiar and still-thrilling swoop in her stomach as the machine finally lifts into the air. She is kept busy through the day, and in the evening she makes the rounds again, picking up the pilots close enough to the pool to bring back; the others are fated for an overnight stay somewhere, or a nighttime journey by rail, sitting on their flight bags in the corridor of a cramped and stuffy train.

It is the end of a glorious day in late summer. This is the time she loves the most, the image to hold on to in the depths of winter, shivering in some draughty dispersal hut: the sun slipping beneath the clouds and gilding their edges, the sea still, today, and shining like beaten copper, the fields and waterways of the Fens and Broads stretching out beneath her, seemingly endless, disappearing into the golden haze along the horizon. Trees and churches and windpumps cast long shadows; she catches sight of the shadow of the Anson, too, rippling across salt marsh and grassy farmland, across rivers and woods.

Behind her, along the length of the fuselage, her passengers are shouting to each other, trying to make conversation over the roar of the engines. Rosie is quite content in her solitude. She could fly on and on like this, chasing the lowering sun forever westwards.

She follows the curve of the coast, flying low, glimpsing a train, billowing steam, cars on the roads, the white sails of small boats on the rivers. The sun glints off something in the far distance: barrage balloons around London. She crosses the Deben, the Orwell, the Stour, and turns the aeroplane inland, skirting the smoke over the city.

They return home by following the edge of the Chilterns, and Rosie lands back at White Waltham in the gathering dusk almost in a daze, her legs adjusting to the ordinariness of walking and her head still in the clouds, sunlit and perfect.

[valkyries-things]

LETTICE CURTIS // AVIATOR

“She was an English aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot, and sportswoman. In early July 1940 she became one of the first women pilots to join the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), remaining with the ATA until 30 November 1945, when the organisation was closed down. She commenced her ATA career by delivering primary training aircraft such as the Tiger Moth, progressing to the Miles Master and North American Harvard advanced trainers. During her ATA service she graduated to fly all categories of wartime aircraft and was one of the first dozen women to qualify to fly four-engined heavy bombers. She was the first woman pilot to deliver an Avro Lancaster bomber and also flew 222 Handley Page Halifaxes and 109 Short Stirlings. She flew continually during World War II from various Ferry Pool locations delivering all types through all weather to various destinations. In October 1942, she was introduced to US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as the first woman pilot to be trained on four engined bombers, during Roosevelt's visit to the ATA at White Waltham Airfield in Maidenhead. Postwar, she became a technician and flight test observer at the A&AEE military aircraft test establishment at Boscombe Down, moving later to Fairey Aviation where she was a senior flight development engineer. She took an active part in British air racing, flying various aircraft including her Wicko and a Spitfire XI owned by the American air attaché in London. She was a founding member of the British Women Pilots' Association. She qualified to fly helicopters in October 1992 and continued to fly aircraft until voluntarily "grounding" herself in 1995. With the nationalisation of the aircraft industry in the sixties she left Fairey for the Ministry of Aviation, working for a number of years on the initial planning of the joint civil/RAF Air Traffic Control Centre at West Drayton. Later under the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority, she worked for the Flight Operations Directorate. Retiring from the CAA in 1976, she took a job with a firm supplying contractors to the Sperry Corporation at Bracknell. She died in 2014 at the age of 99.”

[weehughie]

Throwback Thursday… about to depart Nottingham back to home base White Waltham… • • #dehavilland #chipmunk #dehavillandchipmunk #dhc1 #dhc1chipmunk #nottingham #nottinghamairport #tollerton #throwback #aerodrome #airfield #gapyg #wb619 #tailwheel #taildragger #throwbackthursday #avgeek #throwback #pilot #privatepilot #flying #instapilot #redandwhite #vintage #classic #aviation #retro (at Nottingham City Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpRwqxXo5dP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mastersoftheair]

edward ashley as lieutenant colonel john b. kidd (@carninator-blog recognized them on set from the Beginning, like the first few photos on set back in early spring!)

sam haygarth as (possibly) captain ralph d. kelley. (there was no ralph kelley in the 100th. the only kelleys are a dwight and joseph and neither of them have "ralph" as a middle name or something. what makes this theory make sense to me is that capt. kelley was in the 95th, similar to how dan o'donnell was in the 95th. i may still be wrong about that, but these guys were not in the 100th but people with their names were in the 95th. anyway, we'll see what happens!)

there's also tiyanyi kiy, an actress playing a party guest in an anna boden directed episode. her role by itself probably isn't major since she's playing someone with no actual name. but her cv mentions White Waltham Airfield, and that's probably a new filming location for us!

[royally-obsessed]

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) and his instructor Royal Air Force (RAF) Flight Lieutenant Caryl Ramsay Gordon look in to the cockpit of the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk two seat trainer aircraft in which the duke will learn to fly, at White Waltham Airfield near Maidenhead in Berkshire, England on 12th November 1952.

[opelman]

Ready for Action by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Battle of Britain veteran Hurricane R4118 stands outside the hanger at White Waltham. Aircraft: RAF Hawker Hurricane Mk.I R4118. Location: White Waltham Airfield, near Maidenhead, Berkshire.

[world-of-wales]

─ •✧ WILLIAM'S YEAR IN REVIEW : 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 ✧• ─

𝟑 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William, Catherine and George were spotted at White Waltham Airfield for George's flight lessons. Later, they spent time at the West London Aero Club. Kensington Palace released a welcoming statement for the new Earthshot Ambassadors and Council Members on William's behalf.

𝟓 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : He visited the "Homelessness: Reframed" Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.

𝟔 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William appeared in a video announcing Blue Peter's Earthshot Competition.

𝟗 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William appeared in photographs and the video released by The Princess of Wales announcing the end of her cancer treatment and that she will be continuing her recovery.

𝟏𝟎 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William was received by His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Dyfed (Miss Sara Edwards) at Swiss Valley Primary Community School in Llanelli. In the afternoon, he visited Wales Air Ambulance at Llanelli Gate. Afterwards, he visited Parc Y Scarlets to facilitate players as part of WRU’s “Missing Caps” Campaign.

𝟏𝟐 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : He was the Reviewing Officer at the Commissioning Ceremony at Royal Air Force College Cranwell and was received by Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (Mr. James Foster). Following this, he attended the Reception given.

𝟏𝟑 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William visited Airbus UK Headquarters in Oxford to celebrate Airbus Helicopters 50th Anniversary. It was announced that Catherine & him had made a private donation to Pecan charity in aid of their recovery efforts following the theft food supplies from Southwark Foodbank.

𝟏𝟕 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : The Prince of Wales visited 22 Special Air Service Regiment at Stirling Lines. He released a personal tweet offering condolences on the passing of Gary Shaw and wishing Aston Villa good luck ahead of their Champion's League game.

𝟏𝟖 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : The Prince of Wales wrote the foreword to 'Take Care' - Lindsey Burrow's memoir.

𝟏𝟗 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : The Duke of Rothesay visited Shelter Scotland in Aberdeen. Afterwards, he attended a Homewards Aberdeen 'Thank You' event at Union Kirk. Subsequently, a Homewards & Blue Light Card partnership was announced. Sqn Ldr Mike Reynolds was confirmed as William's new equerry.

𝟐𝟐 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William and Catherine attended the Divine Service held in Crathie Parish Church. They spent a private Weekend in Balmoral.

𝟐𝟑 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : An Earthshot × British Airways Partnership was announced.

𝟐𝟒 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William unveiled the 2024 Earthshot Prize Finalists during a video message at the 2024 Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit.

𝟐𝟓 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William gave a video message at UN General Assembly's 'The Campaign for Nature'.

𝟐𝟔 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : William received Mr. David Fein (Vice Chairman, Earthshot Prize) at Windsor Castle. He wrote the Foreword of 'At Your Side' Guides by Suicide Bereavement UK. He also wrote a letter to Emma Webb congratulating her for the JustGiving Awards win.

𝟐𝟕 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : The Prince of Wales as filmed an Earthshot Special in the woodlands of Buckinghamshire.

𝟑𝟎 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 : He chaired a Meeting of The Prince's Council at Windsor Castle.

[houseofbrat]

Nothing says overprivileged parents with too much money when an 11-year-old boy is taking flying lessons.

The Prince and Princess of Wales watched their son soar into the air and come back to land safely just under an hour later. The treat came on the final day of George’s school summer holiday last week. An onlooker said: “George is only 11 years old but it is the right time to start. [...] Wills, Kate and George also relaxed at the airfield’s teeming clubhouse, home to the West London Aero Club. One person at the airfield said: “There were probably 30 or 40 people in the clubhouse. “Catherine and William watched George take off. “But they were relaxed about it. All three of them had been pretty chilled in the clubhouse.” [...] George’s great grandad Prince Philip was 31 when he began his flying training at White Waltham in November 1952. [...] William and Harry were both in the Army Cadet Corps at Eton College and did not get flying lessons until they were in the military.

[usafphantom2]

‘Swordfish Sunday’

The Navy Wings Fairey Swordfish W5856 during a display at West London Aero Club Members Day at White Waltham Airfield in early September 2023…@WLACFlying @NavyWingsUK

@ShutterbugWGC via X

[grandmaster-anne]

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh at White Waltham airfield in Berkshire when he made his last three flights before qualifying for his Royal Air Force wings.