i suppose many of those comments are from people who wouldnt go near airshows usually, but of course airshows these days HAVE to be billed as family events.
I understand that a family in tow isnt the easiest thing, my dad used to have to do it with me, my bro and sister too! imagine paying attention to whats going on and looking after three kids. I understand that its not easy.
I am not having a go at anyone and have watched cosford airshow from the inside and the outside in the past (particularly when you HAD to pay for the museum too (which is an admirable organisation but having been there a number of times, that particular cost wears a bit thin)).
tickets may have been sold out at one outlet, but, there are others.
because this is a ‘family'(with reasonably priced ‘family tickets’) day with many people i suspect not even particulalry going for the airshow, I would expect people to show a lot less patience. Queues are a fact of airshow life, they happen everywhere to everyone. I have been going to airshows as a nipper and on my own for the past 22 years(dad took me to woodford when i was months old! ) and of course we have got stuck in traffic, we never made it to abingdon when they had the huge flypast, but were stuck on the motorway and had to live with a look round cambridge( VV boring for 3 kids under 10!!).
the answer???
there are two answers.
fly in.
go to bed early and get up early.
we live in that area and have got up early enuf for all sorts of shows all over the place.
Unfortunately for cosford there is only one practical way in and out, and thats down the road there. there is a fire exit that they usually let some traffic out of, but thats on the active side of the field.
I heard over the tannoy that the nimrod had operational commitments.
canberra and sentry?? are there even any in this country right now??? pretty busy I’d say. the sentry has not made public displays to my knowledge, outside of waddington.
as for a SAR display, did you miss the big yellow helicopter???
rotary cfs(and the other units at shawbury) has more important things to do than get a display team going.
raf at home day?? i’d say so. a good turn out from the raf.
I admit that it would be good to see an apache display. i went to larkhill last summer and saw it display there ,and it was rather good. and there was one in static, which is somthing considering the ‘situation’ with them right now.
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