Wow, this is a date for the diary! Culdrose is celebrating its 60th anniversary on the 1st August with a spectacular air show.. this year with a distinctly historic theme. I wonder when the last Anson operated from the base?
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.5166
Some impressive warbird content in the provisional list!
By: RobAnt - 14th March 2007 at 13:08
They usually have “on the field” parking (it’s a big place) – be sure to join the correct queue on the way out, otherwise you can spend hours in the narrow back lanes trying to get back to Redruth for the A30.
And it’s the only show I’ve been to with a grandstand, which is very welcome – I think it’ll be a fairly modest price for a seat, payable on the day.
Blue Badge holder (disabled) cars get very good access too.
By: ALBERT ROSS - 14th March 2007 at 12:45
For those not in the area, best to get there by train to Camborne, then by bus to Helston. The list is not exactly exciting at present, but Culdrose shows are an unknown quantity and previously there have been surprises wheeled out by the School of Aircraft Handling and maybe there will be some foreign Merlins there for training.
By: RobAnt - 14th March 2007 at 12:38
Ahh, good, I was worried Culdrose wasn’t going to be “on” this year, because they were very late announcing it, and their usual website doesn’t work (or didn’t – havin’t tried yet).
– ahh, it’s working now http://www.airday.co.uk
By: 109ster - 14th March 2007 at 12:26
Decisions, decisions,Cornwall or the Isle of Wight for the second week of my summer holiday?
‘Of course I didn’t know the Classic Flight, was going to be here love, oh look I left my ear defenders and hi-viz vest in the car, what a coincidence….’:rolleyes:
Alan
😀
I just happened to be staying on Holiday at Mullion (a few hundred yards down the road from Culdrose) last year during the exact same week as the Airshow….Blimey…what a coincidence :diablo:
By: alanl - 13th March 2007 at 22:32
Decisions, decisions,Cornwall or the Isle of Wight for the second week of my summer holiday?
‘Of course I didn’t know the Classic Flight, was going to be here love, oh look I left my ear defenders and hi-viz vest in the car, what a coincidence….’:rolleyes:
Alan
By: Will J - 13th March 2007 at 14:57
Unless of course, you call an (aerial) cab 🙂
Im not certain how much help we are given that you are starting from Hampshire, but for those put off by the trek from ‘up country’, you could always leave the car in Coventry, and arrive in style! See www.classicflight.com
As ever I would hesitate to include this ‘plug’ if not provoked, but as you brought up the subject of the long journey 😉 .
By: Will J - 13th March 2007 at 14:52
A couple more shots from recent years:
Always a good mix of classics and exotic heavy metal!
By: Will J - 13th March 2007 at 14:47
I guess the Wasp pair are the two from Kennet aviation….?
Which have displayed at the show before, I think they are two of the more distant specks in the mighty balbo (2003 ish)
They do a very nice pairs display, something you don’t get to see every day.
By: stringbag - 13th March 2007 at 13:05
I’ve always wanted to do Culdrose, trouble is it would take hours to get there by road, even from Somerset!
Unless of course, you call an (aerial) cab 🙂
By: kodak - 13th March 2007 at 12:00
Some wishful thinking there me thinks. Sea Vixen? Wasp HAS.2???:confused:
Sea vixen’s more likey than a Wasp HAS 2, being as there never has been one! :rolleyes:
By: Lee Howard - 13th March 2007 at 11:57
Some wishful thinking there me thinks. Sea Vixen? Wasp HAS.2???:confused:
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