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Each month Martin gets the Pilot
Magazine delivered and there are always a selection of free landing vouchers to
entice you to visit airfields. October magazine had one for
Stapleford. Martin had not landed there for many years so we decided, with
the free landing and no exciting flyins available we would venture North of the
Thames.
We took off and headed past family
houses towards Guildford and then along the M25 to Redhill and on to where it
heads North. We followed the road and caught sight of Biggin Hill and then
some of the sights of London. Over the Thames and onto Stapleford.
We joined the circuit and landed
following the taxi instructions towards the fuel. After queuing for a
while we pushed the plane to the pumps and were delighted to hear the admiring
words of the young lad on the pumps. However this was short lived when we
discovered that Stapleford do not have a pair of step ladders to enable us to
receive fuel. They only have a steps the sort that are used for passengers
to get into large planes, definitely no good for high wing aeroplanes with
pretty "pants"
The lad did offer to get some boxes
and "make" a standing position so he could reach the fuel caps, but
since we had waited so long and we did just have enough fuel to get us back to
Popham we gave up.
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