Aerobility brings the magic and wonder of flight (
#MAWOF
) to disabled and profoundly ill people, turning the dream of flying into an exhilarating reality.
Not one, but six, former and current members of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, including Squadron Leader Martin Pert (Red1,) are set to take part in this year’s inaugural International Armchair Airshow!
#RedArrows
#Airshow2020
#ArmchairAirshow
#AVGeeks
Announcing a significant moment for Aerobility...we are set to expand our operations and help change more lives, following a successful bid to acquire additional training aircraft from the UK Ministry of Defence, Defence Equipment Sales Authority (DESA).
Coming soon to your living room - Armchair Airshow 2020 promises live pilot interviews, walk-throughs & never-before-seen air-display & in-cockpit footage. Watch this space as we reveal all the details & featured aircraft - you won't want to miss this!
#ArmchairAirshow
A disabled person climbing out of a plane, sitting on the wing, putting their chair together and wheeling away having just flown solo isn't an unusual sight on UK airfields. The can-do attitude of General Aviation is to thank for this as is support from
@UK_CAA
&
@transportgovuk
Are you all caught up with our latest season of Inspire-Ability?
We're taking it all the way to the beginning with this clip from Episode One!
👉 Watch in full now on our YouTube channel:
We thought six
#RedArrows
pilots was a bit of a coup but now we have over 30 former and current team members lined up for our
#ArmchairAirshow
this Saturday at 2pm! What’s the collective noun for this many Red Arrows pilots? 🤔
Thank you for joining us for the first ever International
#ArmchairAirshow
! We hope you enjoyed it & found the footage and commentary as amazing and inspiring as we did. Thanks for bearing with us through the slight interruptions at the start and finish.
Our
#ArmchairAirshow
is a unique event with fantastic footage of past air displays, as well as interviews with aviation legends and exclusive in-cockpit footage! Join us on Saturday 20th June.
#AviationForAll
#Aerobility
Our
#ArmchairAirshow
is attracting aviation fans from all walks of life including actor
@mcgregor_ewan
and his pilot brother
@McgColin
You can hear them reminisce about their own flying experiences during the event; which, as Ewan rightly says, will be "fantastic!”
#ewanmcgregor
We're delighted to announce our new Red Arrows Trust Scholarship Fund.
Thanks to support from the
@rafredarrows
Trust we can now offer flying scholarships to 12 individuals!
Find out more and how to apply here:
#redarrows
#aerobility
#charity
#disabled
The Red Arrows Trust's generous donation to us is funding twelve Aerobility scholarships! The window for applications is open now. To find out more or apply, please visit
Thank you
@rafredarrows
Trust. 👏🙏
#aerobility
#redarrowstrust
#charity
Don't miss your chance to be awarded an Aerobility scholarship by The Red Arrows Trust! Applications close on the 22 October.
Scholarships are grants that enable anyone with any disability to learn to fly, irrespective of financial means.
Apply now at:
‘If I can fly what else can I do?’ We are Aerobility - The British Disabled Flying Charity, we enable light aviation for disabled and profoundly ill people, turning the dream of flying into an exhilarating reality!
#WednesdayWisdom
#charity
#ArmchairAirshow
- if you've got a question that you'd like to put to one of the pilots during tomorrow's show please message us/comment during the show and we'll ask our hosts: George 'Smokey' Bacon,
@MikeLingPilot
and Jon Windover to pass them on!
#questions
#pilots
#aviation
We are proud and delighted to share the news that Mike Miller-Smith has been made an Aviation Ambassador for 2022 by
@transportgovuk
Read what Mike had to say about this fantastic news and learn more about Aviation Ambassadors on our website:
#avgeek
We’re saddened and sickened to report that our new Warrior has had its Garmin GTN650 nav/ comms/ GPS and its Garmin GMA350 audio panel stolen. Please let us know if you see/hear anything.
#charity
#whowouldstoopsolow
We are thrilled to announce that our Aviators Ball on Saturday evening, along with our Grand Auction raised in excess of £110,000 for disabled flying!
Thank you to every supporter; we are so grateful that we can change even more lives through the magic and wonder of flight! 💙
Thank you
@MikeLingPilot
and
@WindoverJon
and George Bacon and not forgetting
@PlanesTV
- we literally couldn't have done it without you, just hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Technical (network) woes to start and finish but a whole lot of fun and we received amazing support for such a wonderful charity. Some incredibly inspiring stories. Thanks to all who tuned in
@Aerobility
#ArmchairAirshow
Aerobility has appointed Brian Wheeler as its Chief Operating Officer. Brian, who has been a trustee of the charity since 2019, will be based at the charity’s headquarters at Blackbushe Airport. He takes up his position with Aerobility from April 24.
Looks kinda cool doesn’t it?
#aviatorsball2021
Thank you so, so much to every bidder, for every donation and to each and every person that helped us reach this amazing figure tonight.
#aerobility
#disabled
#charity
Meet Aerobility's Chief Flying Instructor and Director of Operations, Mike Owen!
Mike has taken 1000s of aspiring aviators into the sky, given them the controls, and changed their perspective on the world and on their personal capabilities forever.
Have you flown with Mike?
Now that's what we call a celebration! Congratulations to Neil Tucker on his first solo this week, it's been an incredible journey so far and one we'll be trying to keep up with!
#disabledpilot
#limbdifference
#iamable
Six former and current members of the
@rafredarrows
team will join us in our
#ArmchairAirshow
on the 20th June - don’t miss it, follow us on Facebook or subscribe to our YouTube channel now - just search Aerobility!
#AVGeeks
#Airshow
What a fantastic time we had at
@airtattoo
! ✈️
We'd like to thank
@2Excel_Aviation
for their incredible surprise donation of over £16,400 on Friday! 😱 ❤️ We are extremely grateful.
We'd also like to thank
@FSFDP
for inviting us to their award ceremony on Sunday.
Join us on the 9th March at 7pm for our next Inspireability session with
@MandyHickson
. Find out about Mandy’s incredible journey to become one of the UK’s first female, fast-jet pilots & how she overcame many obstacles to develop the skills to succeed in such a demanding career.
We're celebrating women in aviation this
#IWD2021
and are really looking forward to tomorrow's Inspireability session with
@MandyHickson
- RAF pilot, author and motivational speaker - join us on YouTube at 19:00 Tuesday 9th March.
#womenpower
#womeninaviation
The Royal Air Force Aerobatics Team,
@rafredarrows
took part in our Armchair Airshow 2022 broadcast, not only by giving us exclusive cockpit footage but also an exclusive interview! A fascinating feature which you can catch up with here if you missed it:
Tonight at 8pm on
@channel5_tv
- The Red Arrows: A Year in the Sky.
Go behind-the-scenes of the
#RedArrows
in this special programme, recapping how the team prepared for a season marking the centenary of the
@RoyalAirForce
.
Don’t miss tonight’s Inside Out at 7.30 on BBC South - Aerobility flier Stuart Miller tells the BBC team what flying means to him and how it can help others to leave their disability on the ground.
#ChangingLives
#InsideOut
#IAmAble
#AbilityNotDisability
We opened our doors in 1993 and since then have contributed to the lives of thousands of disabled people who have taken to the skies with us. You can read just some of their wonderful stories here:
#aviation
#aerobility
#charity
#avgeeks
#inspiring
Don't miss your chance to win one of Perty's Red Arrows flying suits, as worn by Red1 himself during the 2019 North America tour and signed by the 2020 team! Get bidding on this very special lot here and support our work.
#GrandAuction
@pilotperty
Great to see
@Arthurvw1986
in the latest issue of
@pilot_mag
- we're so proud to have been part of his recovery journey and are delighted to see him continue to fly both literally and figuratively. Thank you Arthur for all your support of us too.
Meet our talented Hebe! Hebe started at Aerobility as a volunteer and has now completed her first year in the role of Fundraising and Outreach Events Manager 🎉 Congratulations Hebe and it is wonderful to have you on-board with us!
This is the amazing total raised by last night’s Aviators Ball!
Thank you all so much for your support and generosity.
Together we will continue to change lives through aviation; we really couldn’t do it without you!
#AviatorsBall
#Fundraising
#GrandAuction
#ThankYou
Last call for applications for our scholarship programme funded by The Red Arrows Trust. Closing date is tomorrow, 22 October.
There are two types of scholarship to choose from:
⭐️Experience Day Scholarships.
⭐️5-hour flying scholarships.
Apply now at:
Isn't it incredible that flyers can go all the way from their first flight in a light aircraft to a PPL with Aerobility?
Aerobility has worked extremely hard to make sure that almost anyone, whatever their impairment or previous experience, can fly.
We are very pleased to announce that Aerobility will receive a
@BBCCiN
Children In Need three-year grant of £29,700 for our Junior Aspiring Pilots Programme. You can read more on our news blog here:
#JAPP
#Youth
#Funding
#Aviation
Last Wednesday, we enjoyed an incredible evening at
@TheRAFClub
in Piccadilly, celebrating the release of
@JohnNicholRAF
's latest best-selling book, "Eject! Eject!"
Thanks to the generosity of John and his guests, over £2000 was raised, for which we are hugely grateful. ❤️
🎉👏congratulations to Harvey Matthewson on his first solo flight yesterday! Harvey aims to get his PPL, he also suffers from cerebral palsy but doesn’t let his condition get in the way of his ambition!
#abilitynotdisability
#yesyoucan
Mike Miller-Smith, who you'll know better as the character on the front of our Cream Soda, set up
@Aerobility
after being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, Mike wanted to offer disabled people the opportunity to fly an aeroplane.
Read more:
#goodfolk
Chief Flying Instructor Mike Owen is hanging up his headset and stepping back from the role after more than 15 years. 🙌
Please join us in thanking Mike for his incredible service to the charity. If you've flown with Mike, we'd love to hear of your experience in the comments ❤️
We contributed to a paper by
@KPMG
'Passenger use cases in the Advanced Air Mobility revolution' highlighting the importance of introducing accessibility into the DNA of the new generation of AAM aircraft and vertiports. You can read the report here:
We are delighted to announce that our 2021 Aviators Ball was our most successful ball yet! We raised more than £115,000 which will change 1000s of lives. Huge thanks go to absolutely everyone involved including these 3 amazing companies
@NATS
,
@2Excel_Aviation
and Breitling UK.
Our stellar Aerobility Armchair Airshow presenters and crew are in place and running through final preparations for take off!
The show is broadcast from
@LBH_Airport
and starts at 1pm.
is the place to watch it all unfold!
#AAS2022
#aerobility
NEWS FLASH - fresh from their North American tour,
@RAFRed1
Squadron Leader Martin Pert, Red Arrows Team Leader, will now join us for our incredible fundraising Aurora flight next month!
Tickets are selling fast:
#RedArrows
#Avgeeks
#Fundraising
#IAmAble
We’re back, on Sunday 5th July with UNSEEN footage!
Following on from our first Armchair Airshow on the 20th June we’re flying again with UNSEEN footage and more not to be missed attractions! Watch this space for all the details...
#ArmchairAirshow
#Unseen
It is with great sadness that we must announce the untimely and unexpected death of our Tatenhill Chief Flying Instructor, Craig Knott. During his 12 years at Aerobility, Craig took thousands of people flying and was hugely respected by all his colleagues and students.
2018 marks our 25th year!
A quarter of a century making dreams come true, enabling the disabled and profoundly ill to experience the exhilaration of aviation.
#25years
#Anniversary