Aerobility make moving aircraft fully accessible

This week saw the exciting arrival of the Aerobility radio controlled towbar.

Striving to create absolute accessibility as ever, the towbar gives people with a disability the ability to move aircraft with ease and safety.

The futuristic towbar uses advanced technology to automatically connect itself to the aircraft nose wheel and is driven using a handheld remote control. This removes the need to physically push the planes in and out of the hangar at Blackbushe.

Click on the link below to see the first test of the new Aerobility radio controlled towbar.
http://vimeo.com/115188875

Volunteer Christmas BBQ

We stuck to our unconventional roots last night by hosting a Christmas BBQ to thank our team of dedicated volunteers for their hard work throughout 2014.

Chief flying instructor James was in charge of the BBQ serving hot dogs and burgers whilst Service Development Coordinator Bridie and Office Administrator Sue kept the mulled wine flowing.

Aerobility HQ was filled with Christmas songs and everyone wore their worst Christmas accessories to add some sparkle to the evening!

CEO Mike Miller-Smith ended the night with a special Aerobility Quiz which saw volunteers win prizes, one of which being two flights to any City in Europe.

The night was enjoyed by all and once again we would like to thank all of our volunteers for their dedication and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

Aerobility proud to work with Muscle Dreams

Muscle Dreams are a specialist national charity delivering highly personalised experiences known as Muscle Dreams for children and young people in the UK living with the muscle wasting disease, Muscular Dystrophy and allied neuromuscular conditions.

Last year Aerobility teamed up with Muscle Dreams to deliver a fun filled day of flying for their service users which we are excited to be hosting again in 2015!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-xqlG2faSE

The latest AEP session was on the topic of How We Fly.  The four forces of flight were discussed - weight, lift, thrust and drag.  We had various demonstrations of all those forces and raced propeller driven cars, experimenting with different sized propellers and wheels.  It got very competitive!!!

Aerobility Christmas opening information

The Aerobility office will close on Christmas Eve Dec 24^th and reopen for normal operation on Monday 5^th January.

Over the holiday period the phones will be manned for enquiries only 29^th - 31^st December and 2^nd January. There will be a normal Saturday service on 3^rd January.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

The Aerobility Team. 

An inspirational evening hosted by paralypian, Sean Rose

Last night Aerobility launched their first Winter Lecture of the season.

The evening was hosted by inspirational paralympian Sean Rose who engaged our flying community with some amazing stories and videos of his career in sport.

Sean brought along his specially adapted sports equipment to show the group and ended the evening with a Q&A session. You can find more information about Sean at http://seanyrose.wix.com/

Our Winter Lecture Programme runs from December to March and is open to everyone.

For more information about upcoming events please email bridie@aerobility.com

It's not too late to book your place at our first Winter Lecture tonight!

Final reminder to book your place at our first Winter Lecture! 

Where? Aerobility HQ, Blackbushe Airport

Date? Thursday 11th December 2014

Time? Arrival from 7pm. 

Guest speaker Sean Rose 7.30pm start

Sean Rose … Dreams and Challenges of a Paralympian 

Sean broke his back in a freak Ski accident in February 2000. Since then he's realised his dreams, surpassed expectations and become a world champion. Sean will be delivering an inspirational speech about his journey and how he has turned his accident into a positive life changing experience based on Dreams and Challenges.

There is no cost to this event but we do ask for a small donation for refreshments.

For more information or to book your place contact bridie@aerobility.com