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Jason Really Did Go Completely Loopy!! - Aerobatic Challenge Update
SUCCESS!! WELL DONE JASON!! The Aerobatic Challenge
is complete!
3 days, 15 flights and over 250 manoeuvres! Jason must have
a stomach of steel!
Jason is still on cloud nine despite being completely exhausted after an adrenaline fuelled few days. Once he has recovered, Jason has promised to tell us all about his head spinning and stomach churning weekend!... meanwhile here is a summary update.
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Jason had two wonderful reasons for facing this challenge and I am delighted to let you know that he has achieved both with flying colours!!
Firstly, he was hoping to raise £5,000 for fly2help. We won't have our final total for a couple of weeks yet, but it is safe to say that Jason HAS reached his target! - WELL DONE and THANK YOU JASON! You can continue to sponsor Jason as his JustGiving webpage will remain open for a while yet. You can also find out more information by visiting Jason's blog
Jason also wanted to raise awareness of the charity, to both potential beneficiaries and also future supporters. The media coverage has been phenomenal, through TV, Radio and Newspapers. We have no doubt that this new awareness will be visible for many months to come.
By no-means least, Jason was hoping to get through all three days as best as possible, without using too many sick bags! We were all shocked and delighted by Jason's ability to spin, loop, roll and gyro (to each pilots delight!), and it has to be said that he did himself proud! The professional aerobatic pilots (more commonly known as 'Sky Gods'), along with the members of fly2help, and Jason himself were questioning whether this challenge could be done... anyone who has ever experienced high power aerobatics will appreciate the huge undertaking of this challenge... one single aerobatic flight of this level, can bring even the most daring to their knees... but FIFTEEN flights is truly a incredible achievement for one stomach to face.
The final total is yet to be confirmed, but it is fair to say that Jason will have completed over 250 aerobatic manoeuvres over a final total of 15 flights... and not a single bag was reached for, let alone used, and he landed each flight with a grin from ear to ear. WELL DONE JASON!!
fly2help would like to offer an enormous and heartfelt THANK YOU to every one who has so generously donated their time, effort, enthusiasm, aircraft and varying skills to this cause... we couldn't have done it without you!
OUR THANKS GO TO:
Jerry Flaxman of QBE Insurance - underwriting of Jason's costs
fly2help
volunteers at multiple venues:
John Baker
Jane Reynolds
Bob Franklin
Terry Selman
Melissa Dutson
Simon Fenwick - Photographer - www.simonsfotos.co.uk
Paul Beaver
BY VENUE:
Kemble Airport:
Kemble Airport Services - www.kembleairport.com
Glen Moreman & Paul Brown
Robert Miller (Nitro) - Pilot
Ultimate High & Mark Greenfield - Pilot - www.ultimatehigh.co.uk
Team Guinot: Martyn Carrington & Danielle Hughes - www.aerosuperbatics.com
Mike Dentith - Pilot
Darren Harbar - Photographer - www.focalplaneimages.co.uk
Cotswold Flying School - www.cotswoldflyingschool.com
Compton Abbas:
Compton Abbas Airfield - www.abbasair.com
Clive Hughes - Airport Manager, Compton Abbas
Yakovlevs & Jez Hopkins - www.yakovlevs.com
Goodwood:
Goodwood Aero Club - www.goodwood.co.uk
Steve Cooper - Aero Club Manager, Goodwood Aero Club
Dieter Sinanan - Pilot
Ian Harvey-George - Flying Instructor
Janet Bradley - Motor Sport Press & Public Relations Officer,
Goodwood
Justyn Gorman - Justyn Gorman Aerobatics - www.invert.me.uk
Plane Heritage & John Gowdy - www.planeheritage.com
Shoreham:
Shoreham Airport - www.shorehamairport.co.uk
Sue Stacey – Events & Marketing Co-ordinator
The Real Flying Company - www.realflyingcompany.com
Headcorn:
Headcorn Aerodrome
The Tiger Club
Dave Evans - Pilot
Trevor Beadle
RAF Halton:
Squadron Leader Colin Baker - Media Communications Officer,
RAF Halton - www.raf.mod.uk/rafhalton
RAF Halton Flying Club - www.haltonaeroclub.org.uk
Alec Trevett
Sywell:
Sywell Airport - www.sywellaerodrome.co.uk
The Blades - www.theblades.biz
Kat Nicoll - Public Relations Officer
Miles Garland - Pilot
Dan Tye - Go Flying! - www.goflying.org
THANK YOU TO YOU ALL!