Sunday 31 July 2011

Boardmasters Tickets to be Won!

If you didn't already know - Boardmasters and giving away tickets with ThisIsCornwall all this week.

There are 5 chances to win a pair of tickets to the Boardmasters festival in Newquay (Friday only)

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Boardmasters-giveaway-tickets-Friday-won/story-13034056-detail/story.html

Follow the link for more info!


Boardmasters 2010 - Chase & Status

Wednesday 6 July 2011

King Air Avenger to Replace Jetstream's at Culdrose


This rather impressive and smart looking aircraft is a new King Air Avenger, and it will be operating from Culdrose Naval Base for 750 Squadron training Naval Observers. It replaced the old Jetstream 41 which were retired earlier this year

The King Air will fulfill the role left by the Jetstreams, but will increase the top speed to 350mph and its range to 2,000 miles...

Expect to see these in the skies over Cornwall (probably doing a clockwise circuit as per the original T1's) very shortly!

The original article can be found here

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Pete Goss Completes RIB Arctic Circle Voyage

The celebrated seaman and adventurer Pete Goss has made the record books once again by leading the first crew on an inflatable RIB around the Arctic Circle.

The crew of 8 battled through huge seas and bad weather - with only a few hours sleep - in order to complete to journey from Shetland to Maloy in Norway. The trip was conducted to prove the RIB's capabilities in all weathers - and from the looks of it Pete Goss was certainly impressed!

More info can be found here:

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Cornwall-s-Pete-Goss-leads-mixed-crew-historic/story-12883401-detail/story.html