Sandown Park flying sites
SANDOWN PARK: Temporary flying site
NOTES: It would appear that in 1910, after flying from BROOKLANDS the French pilot M Paulhan then flew from SANDOWN PARK, (My note: presumably the racecourse?), and made a height record of 1,150ft. This was just before Paulhan famously won the Daily Mail London to Manchester air race.
SANDOWN PARK RACECOURSE: Helipad within racecourse
Note: These four pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Two day helicopter event in June 1980
A GRAHAM FROST GALLERY
Picture One: The Aerospatialle AS350B Twin Squirrel G-BGHG
Picture Two: The Hughes 300CQ G-HUSH
Picture Three: The Enstrom F28C G-BHAX
Picture Four: The Enstrom 280C Shark G-BEYR
Picture Five: The Westland AB-47G-3B-1 Soloy Turbine G-BHKB
Picture Six: The Hughes 369D G-BHWD
Picture Seven: The Hughes UH-12E-4T Soloy Turbine G-BAIU
NOTES: Clearly this was a pretty major event which I was blissfully unaware of at the time. There are, in the background of some of these pictures, some pretty serious heavyweight military helicopters in attendance.
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