The Air League wishes to note the sad passing of Laurie Price, who throughout his professional career, brought both vision and change to the world of aviation. Laurie Price was the former Director of Aviation Strategy for Mott MacDonald. He…
The Perlan Project is a research project to study atmospheric conditions utilizing sailplanes designed to fly at extremely high altitudes. The Airbus Perlan Mission II has set a new world altitude record for a glider, this time soaring the engineless…
In the picture: Sir Adrian Swire when he was a pilot with the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force (Source - The Times) The Air League wishes to mark the sad passing of our long-term member and supporter, Sir Adrian…
The annual Warriors at Wallop event will be held on the 15th September 2018 at the Army Flying Museum at Middle Wallop Airfield. The day is a celebration of flying for current or ex military WIS personal and their families.…
In the picture: BBC Look East's Louise Hubball experiencing her first winch launch in a glider The BBC Look East team came to meet our Boeing sponsored gliding to solo scholarship winners of 2018 as well as taking to the…
The Air League Gliding to Solo scholars have been busy completing their scholarships at Booker and the London Gliding Club. Other scholarships are also being undertaken by scholars at Glasgow and Cardiff. Sponsored by British Airways and Boeing, the Gliding…
This is an exciting opportunity for an events and marketing professional to lead the planning and execution of key events for the Air League, including guest lectures, Annual Reception, Air Shows and fundraising drives. You will use a variety of…
The Air League strongly welcomes the governments recognition in its National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) of general aviation airfields and the need for their strategic and local importance to be taken into account in planning decisions and development plan policies. …
The Air League would wish to record the very sad news of the death of the legendary Mary Ellis at the age of 101. Mary was a young ATA pilot during the Second World War delivering spitfires around the UK…
The Air League welcomes the announcement of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on General Aviation that it intends to investigate the way that airspace changes are processed by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in the UK. The Secretary of State…
