A few hours work by our small team of hard working volunteers

made a huge difference today transforming this..

to this….

It was a good couple of days work by the Rangers and their volunteers adding chips to sections of the path that we first chipped back in 2014 and also chipping some new sections of path.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the work on Friday.  A lot of cuttings were chipped and with a bit of characteristic ingenuity by the Rangers the chippings were moved to where needed on the Woodland walk.

The Yellow Chip Road has been extend with Chippings laid on the path from the Woodland Walk down toward the Lane End Road.

Thanks to the Chiltern Rangers and their volunteers for adding a new rest stop to the Woodland Walk

Thanks to the Chiltern Rangers who have removed the fallen tree that was blocking the Woodland Walk

Message received from Simon Atkins, Head of Training and Director, Airways Aero Associations Ltd, T/A Booker Aviation.

Wycombe Air Park will be welcoming the Red Bull Air Racers on Tuesday 9^th August 2016. They will be staying here until the Thursday 11^th August 2016 where they will then depart to Ascot in preparations for the air race. During the time here they will be conducting a few practice sessions and all will have received a noise abatement brief from myself before their first sortie. The locals may however be more aware of their flying due to the increased horsepower of each aircraft although like last year the pilots will be throttling back as soon as possible when at a safe height in a bid to reduce the amount of noise in and around WAP as they transit to the local area.

On Wednesday 10^th August they will be conducting their first practice session which will all be inside the aerodrome boundary or a designate area in the local area (to be confirmed). Being as the aircraft may be operating in the airfield boundary none of them will be breaching the NAZ but due to the manoeuvres they will be conducting and horsepower of the aircraft the noise will be a lot more noticeable, this will only however be a period of no more than one hour.

May I add that all local residents are more than welcome to visit the airpark and observe the flying. Red Bull are more than happy to show you around the aircraft and potentially meet the pilots. It may a great opportunity for those with children to come and watch them as they practice.

Simon Atkins

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