Any one know which aircraft cockpits will be attending Shoreham Aerojumble next week? I believe that this is a new thing for this years aerojumble, hope its sucessful! Would also be nice to see an increase in traders this year, seems to have been slowly declining in recent years but none the less still very much worth attending.
By: MarkG - 11th March 2005 at 09:59
Not yet I’m afraid. I normally get updates from the organisers at Newark to add to the website, but Bill hasn’t got access to e-mail at the moment so I’m not sure how well that’s going to work this time.
I do know that Mick Jennings is planning on taking a number of the cockpits from the Coltishall collection this year which should be an amazing sight and you can always rely on people like Tony Dyer, Tony Collins, Stuart Gowans, AeroVenture, Frand Lund, Karl Edmondson etc., etc. to put on a fine show.
Are you planning on taking the Hornet?
(I know, I know, I owe you an e-mail 🙂 )
By: TempestV - 11th March 2005 at 08:29
cockpit fest
Is there a published attendance list yet?
By: Rocketeer - 11th March 2005 at 01:49
I’m desperately trying to get it into a transportable condition with the aim of taking it this year. Unfortunately, I’ve still not joined it back together where it was cut down the middle. I am hoping to do that in the next few weeks though. I’m then planning to mount it on a LOX trolley – should then be a simple case of hiring a trailer to move it. I guess there’s still a good 1-2 years restoration work to be done so ain’t going to be pretty, but will make a nice contrast against the restored examples on display.
I reckon this years event is going to be a real cracker and I can hardly wait! 🙂
Me too….hope you can make it with the Hunter as the more the merrier!!
By: MarkG - 11th March 2005 at 01:06
MarkG are you taking your Hunter this year old fruit? I am undecided whether I will take the F1 (which has not been before but is complete but ‘tatty’) or the F6. The Museum will be taking its Jaguar complete with working (extending/retracting) AAR probe and cockpit lighting.
I’m desperately trying to get it into a transportable condition with the aim of taking it this year. Unfortunately, I’ve still not joined it back together where it was cut down the middle. I am hoping to do that in the next few weeks though. I’m then planning to mount it on a LOX trolley – should then be a simple case of hiring a trailer to move it. I guess there’s still a good 1-2 years restoration work to be done so ain’t going to be pretty, but will make a nice contrast against the restored examples on display.
I reckon this years event is going to be a real cracker and I can hardly wait! 🙂
By: Rocketeer - 11th March 2005 at 00:54
MarkG are you taking your Hunter this year old fruit? I am undecided whether I will take the F1 (which has not been before but is complete but ‘tatty’) or the F6. The Museum will be taking its Jaguar complete with working (extending/retracting) AAR probe and cockpit lighting.
By: MarkG - 11th March 2005 at 00:41
It was a noble effort and I am pleased Andy invited people to attend and offered some money towards costs. Cockpits are expensive to transport. I often get asked to take cockpits to shows. To attend Newark CockpitFest costs about £250 all in (van hire + fuel) but for me is worth every penny as there are so many great people to meet. Unfortunately I cannot attend as many as I would like.
Transporting a cockpit is no trivial undertaking and I fully understand the reasons for the limited response received from cockpit owners – in fact I warned Andy when he first suggested the idea that we would struggle with numbers, primarily, because of the travelling distance involved. I have no complaints at all against the cockpit owners, quite the reverse in fact.
The fact is that the idea was suggested purely as a device to promote Shoreham aerojumble and not to promote the cockpit preservation movement. The shame is that it seems the plan was dropped like a hot potato when it became clear that there weren’t going to be huge numbers of cockpits in attendance. There were two cockpit owners who were keen and willing to support the plan and display cockpits. In the end they, and those of us who who put effort into trying to organise attendees, didn’t even get a reply of e-mail or return of phone-call.
I, like you, find CockpitFest immensely enjoyable and so that, for me, will be the one and only.
By: von Perthes - 10th March 2005 at 13:44
Last year someone turned up at our museum looking for the Aerojumble!!!
By: Rocketeer - 10th March 2005 at 03:43
That’s an easy one to answer – none!
Unfortunately there was limited interest from cockpit owners so the organisers of the aerojumble lost interest and just stopped speaking to us. There were two cockpit owners who said they would attend, but when the organisers went quiet they, quite rightly, said forget it then.
I don’t know what he was expecting – hundreds of cockpits converging on Shoreham from all over the globe presumably. :rolleyes:
It was a noble effort and I am pleased Andy invited people to attend and offered some money towards costs. Cockpits are expensive to transport. I often get asked to take cockpits to shows. To attend Newark CockpitFest costs about £250 all in (van hire + fuel) but for me is worth every penny as there are so many great people to meet. Unfortunately I cannot attend as many as I would like.
By: MarkG - 9th March 2005 at 22:27
Any one know which aircraft cockpits will be attending Shoreham Aerojumble next week?
That’s an easy one to answer – none!
Unfortunately there was limited interest from cockpit owners so the organisers of the aerojumble lost interest and just stopped speaking to us. There were two cockpit owners who said they would attend, but when the organisers went quiet they, quite rightly, said forget it then.
I don’t know what he was expecting – hundreds of cockpits converging on Shoreham from all over the globe presumably. :rolleyes:
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