By: Hawkkeeper - 9th August 2009 at 12:19
I hope your gear was waterproof! Your little Schopf was popular that afternoon……:)
That’s me with the black wolly hat on,standing directly in front of the Hawk,
we have 2 of those new tractors, there OK, but will only take 2 in the cab, where our older douglas taskmaster could carry 4 easily, makes the Schopf a pain when we are moving aircraft to the paintshop or detuner for engine runs.
By: Lima1 - 8th August 2009 at 21:48
weather was really bad, rained all day till around 5 then started to clear, we [the hawks] didn’t fly except for 1 in from Yoevilton & he returned in a FN100 a/c aabout 4pm, waste of a working day for us ground crew, we were just hanging about waiting for the weather to lear & then after the guys crewed in, their bit of the FN100 flypast & display was cancelled.
I hope your gear was waterproof! Your little Schopf was popular that afternoon……:)
By: Lima1 - 8th August 2009 at 21:38
I heard the Sea Vixen did a brilliat display in the rain is that true?
James
Yep, she certainly displayed – not in the rain but in near perfect conditions just before 1800 Hrs, well worth the wait!
By: Manston Airport - 4th August 2009 at 00:41
I heard the Sea Vixen did a brilliat display in the rain is that true?
James
By: Lee Howard - 31st July 2009 at 23:20
Si – didn’t see this post until just now. Shame – could have said hi. Did anyone happen to get a photo of the RNHF Chipmunk taxying in on Tuesday lunchtime with the white ensign flying from the rear cockpit (as opposed to on Wednesday)?
By: Hawkkeeper - 30th July 2009 at 18:53
weather was really bad, rained all day till around 5 then started to clear, we [the hawks] didn’t fly except for 1 in from Yoevilton & he returned in a FN100 a/c aabout 4pm, waste of a working day for us ground crew, we were just hanging about waiting for the weather to clear & then after the guys crewed in, their bit of the FN100 flypast & display was cancelled.
By: RobAnt - 30th July 2009 at 02:24
Gave up all thoughts of attending. Weather was going to be absolutely dire until 16:00, and that proved to be the case by all the TV reports during the day.
I expect a few items got up, and promptly came back down though.
Did it go ahead, or was it rained off?
By: Manston Airport - 30th July 2009 at 01:37
Cool Cant wait to see pictures of foxy lady at the event 😎
Also why are the RNHF not flying?
James
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th July 2009 at 17:26
Blue sky & a Typhoon (of the FJ kind) by all accounts now.
“Turned out nice again!!”
By: Snotty - 29th July 2009 at 16:58
MetO radar shows the clag cleared the Roseland peninsular at about 1630 local – hope they managed to get you a display before the bars open….
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th July 2009 at 16:29
Yes – I have it on good authority it was practicing it’s display over Helston yesterday afternoon.
The weather is just starting to clear up down there now – or so the latest METAR says… Here’s hoping they’ll attempt to at least squeeze a bit of the flying display in…
Yep the Vixen was up yesterday.
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th July 2009 at 16:11
Yes – I have it on good authority it was practicing it’s display over Helston yesterday afternoon.
The weather is just starting to clear up down there now – or so the latest METAR says… Here’s hoping they’ll attempt to at least squeeze a bit of the flying display in…
By: Manston Airport - 29th July 2009 at 15:55
Was/Is the Sea Vixen there at all?
James
By: Snotty - 29th July 2009 at 11:27
EGDR 290950Z 24012KT 3500 RA FEW002 SCT003 BKN008 14/14 Q1010 YLO2 TEMPO 0800 RA FG SCT000 OVC002 RED
That’s the Culdrose I knew and loved. Only difference between winter and summer was the air temp, and the amount of traffic on the roads.
By: Hawkkeeper - 28th July 2009 at 23:28
was quite good this afternoon, good bit of sunshine & good high cloudbase, wind was a bit strong though.
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th July 2009 at 11:25
Seafire is up now… think i might have a quick wander up there.
By: RobAnt - 28th July 2009 at 08:51
Tuesday doesnt look much better….especially the afternoon when we are meant to arrive. We’ll just have to see how things go. May have to leave earlier tomorrow than planned.
Martin
Not a good idea – wind is heaviest in the morning from about 1am to 10am wind is as high as 34km/h, Moderates to 18km/h around 10 and gets only a few km/h lower till about 4pm, then speeds up to 24km/h.
But rain is forecast throughout the whole day.
Tuesday’s (todays) windspeed is higher, but only “chance of rain”. Suspect clouds will be low, visibility poor.
By: RobAnt - 28th July 2009 at 08:43
Weather forcast is worsening. Heavy rain all day.
By: T6flyer - 27th July 2009 at 19:41
Tuesday doesnt look much better….especially the afternoon when we are meant to arrive. We’ll just have to see how things go. May have to leave earlier tomorrow than planned.
Martin
By: RobAnt - 27th July 2009 at 13:41
I havent been to Culdrose for years, but this year will hopefully be arriving on Tuesday night and departing after the display has finished the following day.
Just checked metcheck and its looking quite good – showers in the morning and then getting better as the day progresses.
Martin
I’ve just checked the weather for wednesday and it doesn’t look good at all.
My guess is that some aircraft won’t make it at all because of the high winds in the morning.
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