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Look out for the March edition of FLYER Magazine - Editor Ian Waller gets to grips with recovering from unusual attitudes with our intrepid instructor pilot Mark Grigg.
The issue is on sale from 4th February. |
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Ultimate High welcomes aerobatic ace Nick Wakefield to its team of flying instructors. Ultimate High is offering bespoke one-to-one training with Nick on the Extra300 aircraft to pilots wanting to improve their aerobatic skills and for competition flying.
Nick is a highly accomplished competition aerobatic pilot; he won the British Advanced Aerobatic Championships in 1992 and was a member of the British Team at the Advanced World Aerobatic Championships in 1999 and 2000, and at the Unlimited European Championships in 2002.
Nick started flying at the age of 17 when he was awarded an RAF Flying Scholarship, and while he was at Cambridge studying Engineering, he spent 3 years with the University Air Squadron flying Bulldogs; it was there that he acquired his taste for aerobatics. In 1995 he joined Brian Lecomber's famous Firebird Aerobatics team and spent 4 years flying the Pitts S2B and Extra 300L in solo displays throughout the UK. Today, Nick continues flying competition aerobatics in his Pitts S1T G-WILD.
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  The 2009 Air Race Tuesday series winner was Phil Lavender, who flew an impressive time of 2 mins 03 seconds round the circuit on the last day of the season.
In recognition of his achievement, we will be putting Phil's name on one of our Extra300 aircraft, and he will also receive a commemorative mug.
We are now taking bookings for the 2010 series - more information can be found here. |
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Ultimate High has been working hard all year to support Mazda's sponsorship of the World Aerobatic Championships, culminating in 2 days of flying Mazda's media guests during the last days of WAC'09 at Silverstone.
With the competitors launching every 4 minutes for their flights and an Air Display to fit around, it was a huge task to complete the 40 flights. But a combination of solid planning, a flexible working plan and fantastic pilots meant that we completed all the flying and even squeezed in an extra one for good measure.
Team Mazda UK took 3rd prize in the 4 minute Free-style competition and came 4th overall. More information can be found here.
It was an amazing few days and definitely takes the award for top event of this season. A huge Ultimate High THANK YOU to everyone who helped make this project a success.
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Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason brought his two sons to Kemble for a Top Gun Air Combat Adventure. The two boys who are avid classic car and aircraft fans spent the day racing around the skies on a mission to shoot each other down. Both Nick and his wife Annette are pilots and are hoping that this exciting flight experience will result in additional aviators in the family. From the photos it looks like a good time was had by all.
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Working with Mazda to promote the World Aerobatics Championships at Silverstone in August, the Ultimate High display team has been wowing the crowds at Air Shows around the country.
At Kemble Air Day, the Flying Instructors created a special 4-ship display demonstrating their aerobatic and formation skills to a home crowd. For the Biggin Hill and RAF Waddington Air Shows, internationally renowned display pilot John Taylor put the Extra300 through its paces, performing a stunning sequence of high performance gyroscopic aerobatics to capacity crowds.
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/media.html - Hicko flying Lincolnshire Echo presenter Sarah Holt at RAF Waddington for the press day.
http://blogs.news.sky.com/skynewscom/Post:d1bd4064-3ee2-49b7-8aa4-a54bbe111704 - Greeners flying Martin Stanford, senior news presenter for SKY News at Biggin Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocEyDh13qhQ (You Tube version of SkyTV piece)
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Ultimate High's mission to promote the World Aerobatics Championships gathers pace as Blue Peter presenter Andy Akinwolere took to the skies with Greeners to learn how to fly competition aerobatics. British Team Member Gerald Cooper joined UH for the day flying his CAP 232 through a truly outstanding performance of high precision and freestyle aerobatics (respect).
The programme was broadcast on BBC1 on Tuesday 26th May at 4:35pm.
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Filming for BBC Working Lunch
Filming for Battlefield Britain
Filming for Mazda TV
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| Flying the Press / TV Filming:
Our display pilots are extremely experienced in operating and dealing with the media as we often work closely with producers to create bespoke programmes. We have worked directly with many TV companies including the BBC, ITV (various channels), Nickelodeon, Nuts TV others.
We have on-board digital video recorders with camera mounts on the wings, nose, cockpit and tail-fin of the aircraft. The performance and agility of the Extra300 aircraft makes this a superb camera ship.
For newspapers, in the run up to an event, we can offer advance photo-news stories to all your local media. If required, we can also arrange press flying, including broadcast quality video that can be used directly by TV.
We can offer prizes which can be flown at our Advanced Flying Training Academy at Kemble.
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