On Sunday 26th June 2005 Keith Boardman and Peter Bevan, from the Scottish Aero Club at Perth, established what they believe to be a unique record. They flew over and photographed all of the malt whisky distilleries in Scotland, from the air, between dawn and dusk. They put the photos together in a website which can be accessed by clicking on the following link.

www.scottishaeroclub.org.uk/anip 

Three aircraft and 5 souls are now in flight as they circumnavigate the Iberian Peninsula in a major Scottish Aero Club fly-out.  My co-pilot in G-HACE is Ian Meikle from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  John Wheeler’s co-pilot is Ian Lawrence in another RV6A, G-RVEE.  Donald Smith is flying solo in his MCR1, G-CGCN.  We left Saturday May 26^th with the intention of arriving back into Perth on Sunday June 10^th. 

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Ferrari Owners Club (Scotland) visit to the Scottish Aero Club: July 2012

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We flew out from Aberdeen on the Sunday 21st July via Heathrow to Chicago connecting with Roger Hopkinson at Heathrow. After a 8hr 40min flight we collected our hire car and headed to the house John had organised for us 3 mile from the airport. After just short of a 3 hour drive we were in the house and settling in before heading our for a meal.

The following day was forcast to be hot, and indeed it was, 95F with a heat index of 105F. 

Scottish Aero Club hosts NASA Astronaut Alvin Drew – 6 July, 2012  

-          by Dave McElroy

Colonel Alvin Drew mesmerized about 75 members of the Scottish Aero Club on Friday evening when he presented an informative and entertaining description of the last flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. 

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I am convinced for the last few years I have suffered from what psychologist now call “SAD” (Seasonal Affective Disorder) or - for the more poetic amongst us – “winter blues”. The few short hours lingering between dawn and dusk during our winter, encourage in me, little in the way of action or deed. Hooray then for the Scottish Summer! Never mind the sunshine? what about the day length! There are nearly twenty hours of flying light in the middle of June, starting at 3:50 all the way through till 23:30. A day-length to be celebrated and savoured! Why not? The Druids did! Perhaps their unsophisticated approach was slightly less interesting than dancing naked around wicker men but the celebration was there. At the Scottish Aeroclub we neither danced naked or donned sheets and willow leaves.

Over the years “bikers” (motor cyclists) have developed a formidable reputation. Looking at them you’d not be surprised to learn its one they are reluctant to let go. Studded jackets; skin-tight ribbed leather; boots; shades; all combine to create as menacing a profile as the fertile imagination of writers like Asimov could muster.

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On June 25, two aircraft from the Scottish Aeroclub flew out of Perth with North Cape, Norway, the unlikely destination. David McElroy, accompanied by this passenger, a boyhood friend from British Columbia, and Donald Smith departed from Perth on June 25th at 13:11.

Written by Don Rivers

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Sunday 2nd October saw the Scottish Aero Club host the monthy Breakfast Meet of LEGS, the Lotus Enthusiasts Group, Scotland.

by Jim Crosby (photograph by Emma Hibbert)

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SAC helicopter pilot tells of his holiday adventures 

Before we went on holiday, myself and Donald Maclean (FI with Kingsfield Helicopters) made contact with Sloane Helicopters in Mallorca to arrange for self fly-hire on Friday 19th July. Costs around the same as UK prices.

Written and submitted by Stuart Neill

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The story of an extraordinary weekend at Scotland's major aviation event.

by Sophie Houston.

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2nd/4th Sept 2011

The weather did not look promising for this year’s LAA Rally. I took Duncan Robertson, an East of Scotland Strut member and legendry bat waver, down to the event on Friday morning in the Europa (G-GZTED). 

 by Justin Kennedy

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On Monday the 20th June, a small contingent of the SAC Flying Vermin Squadron (aka the microlight section!) decided that it would be an adventure to make use of the (almost) longest day of the year.

On the week-end of 25 September 2010, several intrepid members of the Scottish Aero Club took to the skies over Bute to help celebrate Bute's very own pioneer of aviation, Andrew Baird, in a series of events designed to commemorate the first all-Scottish, heavier-than-air powered flight, which took place at Ettrick Bay in September, 1910.

Yesterday the SAC Canadian Flyout group arrived back in Ontario from its flyout to the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada.