East Kirkby RAFBF Airshow 2009

East Kirkby Airshow

YAK 11 Fan ,,do you know if Janie or Marrinel will be doing any fly by,s at the 100 th Bomb Group open day this Saturday 8th August ,its a World War Two Music Event at the museum at Dickleburgh ,looks good ,,

Cheers Terry

Yes, bl**dy forecasters, we sat on the ground waiting for the deluge that didn’t come. I think we were lucky and EK was in a microclimate plus the track back home remained clear until 20 minutes after we landed.

Janie and Marinell did, but early due to the forecast weather (which didn’t happen as planned)

East Kirby Airshow

Does anyone on here know if Janie ,Marinell ,or Rob Davis arrived there in the end to do a display ?? or did they not turn up due to the poor weather forcast ?

Cheers Terry

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It certainly sounded well.:)…I was hearing it very clearly at the South end of Spilsby…

Thank you,
Clive.

She did 2 circuits over Horncastle. You dont realise what a noisy a/c the Hurricane is, till you hear it on its own.

A grand day out….. A lovely friendly show, well organised, and the excellent commentary by K E stopped as appropriate to allow
the aircraft noise to be heard. If I had to single out one display it would be Keith Dennison in the Hurricane – superb !

I’ll second all of that ! A very memorable day ; the organization and atmosphere were superb. It was very nice to be able to savour the Hurricane display with no distractions or interruptions.

Well done to all at East Kirkby – it was well worth the trip up from London.:cool:

The hurricane ended up staying over night at EK due to a band of horrendous weather that came through at about 1800. The first Hurri to stay in a hangar at EK i believe. Departed EK at approx 0815 (?) on the glorious sunday morning.

It certainly sounded well.:)…I was hearing it very clearly at the South end of Spilsby…

Thank you,
Clive.

The hurricane ended up staying over night at EK due to a band of horrendous weather that came through at about 1800. The first Hurri to stay in a hangar at EK i believe. Departed EK at approx 0815 (?) on the glorious sunday morning.

Did the Hurricane night stop at East Kirkby.??

On Sunday morning at 8-25am-ish I was hearing RR Merlin sounds from East Kirkby direction.

Clive.

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Really wanted to go to this one, but fiances and poor weather forcast made it a no go. I dont mind walking 12 miles in normal weather, but not this recent downpour! Hope they have another. Any pics anyone?

Well dona all at EK, a great afternoon out. Commentary by Ken was great – witty, informative and, as stated above, he would pause to allow the aircraft to be heard without interruption. Well done Ken, a lesson in how it should be done, and seconded regarding Keith Dennison!!

FF

A fantastic show, thanks to everyone involved.
Please have another one next year!!!!

Shame about the weather FORECAST though, no where near as bad as predicted, until after the show when some lanes around Waddington were getting quite flooded!
Then to top it all a glorious sunset while heading back along the A5 to Shropshire!!

A few aircraft from Norfolk for a start, good to hear it was a good display, shame I didn’t make it…

You missed a treat Y11F, we didn’t have any weather problems either there or back in Nellie.

Well done the Met Office. I wonder how many people were put off travelling to to EK today? The rain didn’t arrive until after 18.00 hrs!

A few aircraft from Norfolk for a start, good to hear it was a good display, shame I didn’t make it…

Well done the Met Office. I wonder how many people were put off travelling to to EK today? The rain didn’t arrive until after 18.00 hrs!

A grand day out. I left at 4pm before the wx arrived. A lovely friendly show, well organised, and the excellent commentary by K E stopped as appropriate to allow
the aircraft noise to be heard. If I had to single out one display it would be Keith Dennison in the Hurricane – superb !

East Kirkby Airshow

I was going to go ,but because of the weather forcast ,i wont be going ,they put on a very good show a few months ago when they had Lola Lamour singing in the Hanger ,and they also had an original Lancaster Bomber crew answering questions ,but ,,2 points,,they kept having a power cut ,so the singing had to stop 4 times and also the PA was pretty poor and you could not hear what the Bomber crew Veterans were talking about ,,which was a great shame ,im sure Maurice and his band of merry men will try their best to put on a good show ,very nice bunch of people at the 93rd bomb group open day,the smoke generator,from a mobile disco i assume in the hanger made me laugh anyway ,,Cheers Terry

Unfortunately that weather front for the afternoon looks pretty bad. Such a shame that the weather hasn’t been playing ball.

TJ

Tickets have now been released for the gate (approx 1000)-
£10.00 adults
£5.00 children

Here’s hoping for a good day!

Having spoken to our display pilots today we have the RAF Tutor coming over on Friday morning for a quick touch and go/practice approach and some practice passes and the RAF Chinook should be landing at around 12.00.
Weather forcast is beginning to look a little more favourable now.