Duxford September Airshow list now online

Windbreaks – if they only enclose sufficient space for the occupants then they’re not unreasonable. However, this is rarely the case.

Windbreaks, along with stepladders should be removed by the Duxford staff, placed alongside the runway then used as a demonstration of FIDO!

Might provide a spot of clear weather for a change😀

If someone arrives at 06:00 then stays put until 18:00, fair game but to set up camp then ****** off is not right!

But then again, simply symptomatic of the current climate!

“All for One, One for Me”

PS
Sorry, just spent an hour speaking to British Gas and am more than a little p*ssed off (Stepladders excluded) and why is B U G G E R replaced by ******, surely we’re all adults here?

Sorry, did I really write that:D

It all does sounds fine in theory of course but we British do not like to complain but we should and we should not feel the threat of retribution for doing so. It just seems unfair that some people want it all, they want to spend the morning amongst the ground exhibits and then turn up front row for the flying, selfish!!

Those that set up camp and stay there for the day are fine, they have decided that for them they want to see the flying action from the front row and that is their sacrifice so to speak, but for the selfish ones we sacrifice.

Perhaps I should not be so polite, from now on set up camp then s0d off

The shocking truth is that windbreaks and other obstructions along the fence line unless part of an official enclosure have no legal validity. The people who put them there are not expecting anyone to challenge the claim. if I wander along and decide to stand in a windbreak section to get a particular photo angle then apart from stupid comments from the self appointed “owner ” of the windbreak section there is nothing to stop me. Threats of violence will be met with silence and if anything happens the person will be filmed and reported to the police.

My ticket price entitles me to stand and move in the public areas and no one is going to stop me .

Also aren’t windbreaks there to as the name suggests ‘break the wind’ so to speak, stop the person behind it being in the draft, breeze – howling gale. If that is the case I expect to see people camped the wrong side of them when the wind is coming from across the airfield and in their face, I doubt that this will happen somehow, so what is their point?? I think they are used more as a marking of territory. If it is a free country and I am free to arrive early and claim my acre along the crowd line then I am equally free to remove unused obstacles (chairs and windbreaks) from this public (for the show) land and set up camp after someone has claimed it but as far as I can tell not used it![/QUOTE]

So what happens if you are caught in the act of removing windbreaks and chairs set up by a bunch of Mafia Gorillas wanting a nice break away from the daily ritual of assassinations and kickings, not worth it pal, you don’t know who you are dealing with.
Many years ago, I used to meet my brother at Mildenhall Air Fete, as I travelled up from Essex and he used to come down from Nottingham, I always got there first. The crowd line at Air Fete was so vast, that I would put up my distinctive blue windbreak and little Union Jack and read the programme and crash out, well I would normally get there very early and need some time out to recover. Now, I don’t agree with this saving places stuff, but we always had an army of kids with us anyway, and someone was always around the ‘enclave’.
This particular year, my brother was a bit late arriving, the kids were grumbling, and the smell of the Polish sausage was wafting over us, we couldn’t bare it any longer and went off to the nearest barbie.
Meanwhile, my brother and his entourage arrived, found the distinctive windbreak and flag and crashed out in the chairs. Unfortunately it wasn’t mine, they were ejected very unceremoniously, and wandered down the flightline till they found us stuffing our faces with the ultimate grub. Good times, DX isn’t big enough to cope with that sort of thing though, it should be controlled, though this issue has been debated so many times before, it never gets anywhere, I know I will arrive at DX quite early and the crowdline will look like Bournemouth beach, it’s no fun anymore is it.

What’s wrong with making the effort to arrive early and sticking your chair by the fence? I see no sense in having to be present by your chair in the morning – why on earth would you want to guard your chair rather than having a wander around?

If you arrive to find a line of empty chairs then you’re arriving too late.

Windbreaks – if they only enclose sufficient space for the occupants then they’re not unreasonable. However, this is rarely the case.

A couple of things, I usually arrive early enough to choose a spot if that is what I wanted to do. I just think that reserving a space is a bit rude, it never used to happen years ago, I have been going to airshows since the seventies and the windbreak and chair reserving has really only taken hold in the nineties onward. I think that back in the day crowd lines used to be more fluid, people would move up and down and back to their car (not so easy at Duxford I appreciate) as things of interest (to them) appeared.

Also aren’t windbreaks there to as the name suggests ‘break the wind’ so to speak, stop the person behind it being in the draft, breeze – howling gale. If that is the case I expect to see people camped the wrong side of them when the wind is coming from across the airfield and in their face, I doubt that this will happen somehow, so what is their point?? I think they are used more as a marking of territory. If it is a free country and I am free to arrive early and claim my acre along the crowd line then I am equally free to remove unused obstacles (chairs and windbreaks) from this public (for the show) land and set up camp after someone has claimed it but as far as I can tell not used it!

I live literally less than 5 miles from DX. I always aim to get onsite for about 7am. Park up, relax, and then chill knowing you’re in.

why bother? just troll along about 1 o’clock, park up somewhere local, plonk yourself on the motorway bridge, and you’ll see and hear the Vulcan. And you should be able to make a quick getaway.
Everything else you would have seen umpteen times this year anyway.

I’d normally leave home for Dux for a Sept or Oct show at a leisurely 8.30 from SE London……….on seeing the Vulcan listed, better make that ‘0 dark thirty’:p

If that goes firm I reckon you’ll have to be giving the sparrows an early call:D It would be worth it though.

Personally I get a bit fed up with all the chairs and windbreaks by the crowd line first thing with no one there. I came close at legends to moving some. Seems a bit rude to me!!

I kno this is maybe a bit cheeky but if you have your own chairs is there anyway you can (if you get there early) put them up by the fence to get a good spot and then go away for a while and come back to them?

cheers
M

You forgot the necessary windbreak, my son knicked mine and seems to have left it in Cornwall, without that, I’m afraid I won’t be able to attend the airshow, whats the point if you’re not properly tooled up, I’ve told him to go back to Padstow and find the bloody thing, otherwise my airshow visits are just a waste of time.

I kno this is maybe a bit cheeky but if you have your own chairs is there anyway you can (if you get there early) put them up by the fence to get a good spot and then go away for a while and come back to them?

cheers
M

Sure – that’s how we got all those chairs outside of TFC! 😀

I kno this is maybe a bit cheeky but if you have your own chairs is there anyway you can (if you get there early) put them up by the fence to get a good spot and then go away for a while and come back to them?

cheers
M

I’d normally leave home for Dux for a Sept or Oct show at a leisurely 8.30 from SE London……….on seeing the Vulcan listed, better make that ‘0 dark thirty’:p

I live literally less than 5 miles from DX. I always aim to get onsite for about 7am. Park up, relax, and then chill knowing you’re in.

I’d normally leave home for Dux for a Sept or Oct show at a leisurely 8.30 from SE London……….on seeing the Vulcan listed, better make that ‘0 dark thirty’:p

Interestingly TVOC are only showing attendance at the October show not the september show

Sally B down as static….:(

Yes, unfortunately Elly has posted on the Sally B website that she won’t be flying again until next year.

http://www.sallyb.org.uk/index.php?_a=viewDoc&docId=15#grounded2009

Looks like Miss Demeanour is the Hunter.

It’s less than 5 miles down the road from me. Be rude not to attend…:D

Be great to see the Vulcan display at DX once again..:)

hmm

I thiink i might get along to this one, only been to 1 event for this year so another wont hurt. Having abit of a break just lately as you can do to much.

Cheers
M

With a P1 show at Southport and the show at Portrush the same weekend it was always going to be a bit busy.

All true (especially the 90th part :eek:) but at least the vulcan is listed as is the Lancaster so we could get what flying legends could have been just a few months later.

curlyboy