Don’t forget, the AGM will be held on Tuesday 14th November at the Trowbridge Cricket Club starting at 7.30pm sharp.
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Lavington Stem Day
The message below has been sent from Lavington school to the Gazette and Herald and hopefully to the Wiltshire times so well done to Peter and the team for the Stem day.
As part of our ongoing commitment to STEM opportunities at Lavington School, we were delighted to host a STEM Flight day: Engineered for flight, supported by the Wessex Model Flying Club. Six pilots joined us for the day from the Keevil club, bringing along with them an impressive knowledge base and a range of model aircraft used as part of the dynamic presentation to Year 8 and KS4 students.
The Flight Day gave groups of young people a chance to be motivated in their study of STEM subjects and to see the exciting career opportunities available in the dynamic sectors of aviation and aeronautical engineering, which included investigating the science and engineering behind the principles of flight, gliding and aviation. Students built, prototyped and tested their own models in the workshop, testing their own Aerojet and Hawk planes for length of flight, plus most creative and daring designs that flew well. A flight and static display of model aircraft was memorable and bought the workshop activities to life with practical examples that prompted plenty of discussion about the principles of flight, radio gear, learning to fly, model types, start up jets and the finer detail of flying a helicopter and jet.
This was a brilliant day organised by the DT Faculty and an absolute pleasure to welcome our six pilots into school and work with us to enhance our STEM provision in the classroom.
Kind regards,
Anna Woodman
Club BBQ Plenty of flying, fun and food
Al & Chris in full swing
The committee would like to thank all those that helped make our BBQ a great success particularly Chris,Al and Fiona. It’s always a question of the weather and how many we can expect to come, we think that we got everything just about right (well Chris Wakley did more like). We must thank all those and their wives that brought food. I did notice that none went home!
A few took the opportunity to fly the club trainer including Peter Dauncy (Melkshams town crier) which we have photos of and with a bit of luck Tony will have got uploaded these and others to our web site by the time you read this.
Please don’t forget we are looking for volunteers for the Southwick flower show on bank holiday Monday set up 1030
Chris Kirk’s Spitfire ready for its final coat of paint
The Jetstream is moving! (Or so they say.)
And Summer is just around the corner. Again. Anyway, let’s hope it gets here before Autumn does.
Just spent some time on the refurbishment of our latest acquisition, a third scale SE5A in the colours of the one flown by Maj James McCudden VC.
Not too much to do (considering my Fokker DVII is now two and a half years overdue), just some tweaking with the rigging and bits and pieces. We put it all together in the kitchen today (on account of the rain outside), then realised it was too big to get through the doors for some outdoor shots when the sun did come out (how we laughed).
All being well we’re up for some engine trials and maybe a test flight this weekend….
And yes, there is a pilot on the way, but I think he may have heard about Michael’s flying and is taking the scenic route…