Newbridge Leisure Centre
NEWBRIDGE LEISURE CENTRE: Very temporary flying site
Location: In/near Newbridge
NOTES: This site is included simply to illustrate the immense diversity of UK flying sites and the information comes from the AAIB report EW/G2010/06/11. It appears that the owner of the Pegasus XL-R weight-shift microlight G-MTOO, who was not a qualified pilot at the time, elected to do some ground runs. He maintains that on the last run the throttle stuck open and the aircraft became airborne and collided with a goalpost.
One aspect for mentioning this incredibly brief flight, or ‘hop’, was that it mirrors so many very early flight attempts of roughly 100 years before. In those days it was often the case that the pilot had no previous flying experience and indeed, may well have designed and built the aircraft himself. In other words the first flight of the prototype was also the first flight for the pilot. Small wonder then that if the aeroplane became airborne, (certainly not an assured outcome), the result was often a crash, or at best a very heavy landing.
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