8th Abingdon Air & Country Show

With just 2 weeks to go before the event,advance tickets are still available from our web-site www.abingdonfayre.com
or Dawson Music Shop in Abingdon or the Abingdon Information Office in the Abbey Hall,Abingdon

Last day for ordering is Thursday 26th April,but……….

Our publicity stall will be at the Clarendon Centre,Oxford on Saturday 28th April and advance tickets will also be available here

cheers
Colin

Sounds like it will be turning out to be a good show. I expect pictures! Don’t think I can manage that hop across the pond.

Abbott SPG not aviation related? Sure it is…they call them targets!!!:D

Just been added to the flying display list are the Army Air Corps Blue Eagles display team

Colin

Latest up-date…………….

Static update:
Royal Navy Lynx, Hornet Moth x2, Rearwin Cloudster, Austers, BAC Strikemaster, based RAF Grob Vigilant x2, Jet Provost T3 & T5, Twin Pioneer,Chipmunks, Prentice, Dove, C47 Dakota (visitors allowed inside), Polish Navy AN28 Bryza 1R (tbc), RAF Puma (tbc).

Thames Valley Air Ambulance Bo105

The Twin Pioneer, a Chipmunk, Prentice and Dove are all giving Pleasure flights @ £55 per person, and the C47 will be open to the public.

FlyCB’s EV-97 Eurostars will again be present offering trial flights

Flying list as at 23/2/07:
RAF Tucano
RAF Tutor
RAF Hawk
Pembroke C1
Spitfire
Extra 300L
Jet Provost T3
Messerschmit ME108
Hunter tbc
RAF Merlin tbc
RAF Chinook tbc

Got your tickets yet chaps,they’re selling fast…………..

Colin

Best place for it.
Oh and by the way I’m already ‘known’ to the organisers – well Neil anyway.:)

Fair enough mate…
look forward to meeting you myself on the 6th
Colin

Best place for it.
Oh and by the way I’m already ‘known’ to the organisers – well Neil anyway.:)

Hi Aeronut
the Abbott is a privately owned “civilian” machine so there should be no problems.It is intended to operate her on the rough-terrain area to the south of the old ATC-tower so there should not be much of a FOD issue.
You’ll have to try and make yourself known to us on the day
Colin

I do hope the Abbott will be driven responsibly. As one of the weekend flyers at Abingdon I’m fed up of sweeping all the cra… sorry, FOD off the runways and taxiways. And as for the Army ripping up the grass and disolving the tramac with spilt fuel… Aghhh.

Its a darn good show though and yes I intend to be there.

These are valid points but with many of the smaller shows, Abbo included, they do have to struggle to get the punters through the gate and cover the ever increasing (often ludicrously) costs and in Abbo’s case raise some monies for a worthy cause.

Before days of t’internet I seem to recall lists of expected acts appearing int the aviation press so pre-event listing is nothing new.
Just quicker

Cheers AW…took the words straight away from me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As Gary says,the smaller shows(ours included) need to do whatever we can to attract the paying public(..& remember that’s not just the enthusiast).
Even-so,there may still be a surprise or two that might not be announced in advance.

Again,as Gary says,pre-event listings are nothing new…most of the aviation press carried these lists in the pre-internet days and there was always the local rumour mill.
Many events had premium rate telephone hot-lines with these lists…at least doing it this way,we are keeping your phone-bill costs down.
cheers
Colin

These are valid points but with many of the smaller shows, Abbo included, they do have to struggle to get the punters through the gate and cover the ever increasing (often ludicrously) costs and in Abbo’s case raise some monies for a worthy cause.

Before days of t’internet I seem to recall lists of expected acts appearing int the aviation press so pre-event listing is nothing new.
Just quicker

Personally, I prefer to be ‘surprised’ to a certain extent when I go to an airshow!

Of course you have to give away some information to get the interest going, but it’s just like the days pre-WWW when you turned up to a show hoping to see something rather then expecting to see it.

sadly we got a handful of people who treated this is a some sort of personal slight and sent remarks along the lines of “If you don’t publish exactly what is going to take part, you don’t get my money because I won’t turn up” (only rather less politely). Needless to say we did without their entrance fee.

Ah Yes, remember this well, I even got email’s coming through the Societies server about this, as you say some were a lot less than polite, and that’s to put it mildly!!

Why do organisers have to tell you what to expect at shows????

Surely it is much more fun to arrive in a state of anticipation and be thouroughly surprised at what you see????

Prior to the internet we never knew what was going to appear at shows until you got there, always hoping that you would see that something special but also knowing that you would see some established acts.

Do any of you think that shows have lost some of their spark because of this? Or do you think that it’s better to know what your getting for your dosh????

Can now add US Army UH-60A Blackhawk and Royal Navy Merlin on static,with Pembroke and Jet Provost T3 in the flying display.

A major non-aviation feature will be the opportunity to have a ride in a 1960s Abbott self-propelled gun vehicle

Colin

LATEST UP-DATE

The eighth annual Abingdon Air & Country Show takes place on Sunday 6th May,

at Abingdon Airfield / Dalton Barracks, Oxfordshire.

Attractions include a Three hour afternoon Flying Display & Static Aircraft,

both of which contain Military & Civilian aircraft such as RAF Hawk,RAF

Tucano to WW2 Spitfire, Me108 and Hawker Hunter with hopeful International

support, Arena Displays, Crafts & Trade Stalls, 25th Anniversary MG Car Works

Rally, Tank Rides, Amusements and much more for all the family to enjoy.

Public entry is permitted from 10am, with gates closing around 5pm.

Proceeds are going to the Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance Service,

now based at RAF Benson.

Advanced Tickets are now on sale, at the Abingdon Information Office,located

at the Old Abbey House, from Dawsons Music Shop and via Paypal on our

Official website, to which more information can be obtained on:

_www.abingdonfayre.com_ (http://www.abingdonfayre.com/)

Telephone enquiries are welcome on 01235 529142, with Traders & Crafts

persons welcome to book a pitch still.

Advanced tickets prices are Adult £7, OAPs & Children £3.50, Under 5s Free.

On the day they are Adult £8, OAPs & Children £5, Under 5s Free.

It promises to be the biggest and best event yet to be staged by Neil Porter

& his band of volunteers known as the Abingdon Air & Country Show Committee

The following have been confirmed(or as near as can be….) as attewnding our show in May;-
Extra 300L Denny Dobson
Spitfire PR11 Peter Teichmann
Bf108 Taifun.

I would suspect the Grob Vigilants of the based 612 VGS will be around during the day as well as the Thames Valley Air Ambulance Bo105

Tickets selling well from the web-site www.abingdonfayre.com
Colin

Cheers Steve
can you contact Neil on [email]neilsevent@aol.com[/email] for PPR
cheers
Colin

Count me in – in something slow!! 😀