Air To Air With Spirit Of Safety I

Making a welcome return to Halfpenny Green Airfield during April 2011 were two Lightship A60s in the shape of the Goodyear liveried G-HLEL and G-TLEL.

Once home to part of the Lightship Co, A60+ Blimps were a regular site at Halfpenny Green in many different advertising schemes but G-HLEL is the first to return for a number of years.

Unfortunately during its stay at Halfpenny Green the weather precluded most of the flights for G-HLEL Spirit Of Safety II but for sister ship Spirit Of Safety I the weather was a lot kinder and allowed some extensive flying on Monday 11th April.

During a very short window of time I was lucky to get airbourne to do a few air to air shots on what turned out to be G-TLELs last vip flight from Halfpenny Green before moving on.

A very big thank you to Steve for getting me airbourne and to the pilot of G-TLEL that allowed us to fly alongside and make the following images possible.