Wow, I’m finding myself agreeing with Chox on a few of his points!

Defending the RAF (and I work at Waddington), it has a LOT of assets (planes and crews) working overseas at the moment. That’ll explain the lack of presence. That said…..

I remember writing to my boss when he asked for comments about the airshow in 2006 and I reeled off loads of things that could have made the airshow outstanding as opposed to an almost ran. My comments fell on deaf ears.

The RAF generally isn’t too interested in hosting airshows. Most personnel are hard pushed to work when overseas commitments are high, it means working an EXTRA weekend beyond normal commitments. Of course the odd crewman will be happy to come and get lubricated, which will make the nause worth it.

There isn’t a lot of spare cash to go pumping fuel into the aircraft.

The airshow office at Waddington has a full time staff employed year round to organise this event and I’m ALWAYS left wondering WHY the show is so dire. I can only think that they work so hard that they don’t get out to SEE other shows. Maybe they ought to.

Waddington is a charity show and for that reason it’s a success.

Go to Leuchars, it’s much better, for an RAF show.

Waddington Air Show Office:- Go and do some homework.

Cheers,
C6

Hello

Heres what we did to Spitfire Mk18 SM969 for Jim Beasley

The crowbars were natural metal as i recall.

Hope this helps

Regards

Bwb

Not 100% on this one mate but seem to rememeber that it was modern day style yellow and black……

C6

I heard politics at EK….some young thruster decided it could earn more revenue, some old thrusters lost a Spitfire. The Major is still in the seat, we are all still in awe.

C6

well, once in a blue moon you might find us within 150 miles of each other!

jim harley

Sick with envy….:o

When can we expect her to be leaving us?

Cheers, Huw:)

In the traditional TFC style, I’m sure it’ll be after that summer show at the beginning of July. Someone in TFC will be able to answer that question IF Mr Grey has allowed that info to go to the public domain.

C6

Another thing…. I’ve long been curious about the fin – why it is wedge-shape? The tiny amount I know about aerodynamics screams “wrong” but it obviously wasn’t.

Roger Smith.

Hi Roger,

Justan educated guess about the fin, but I think it’s to create a ‘swirl’ behind the surface that would ‘pull’ at the back of the aircraft, keeping it tracking correctly. Slower aircraft (BAe Systems Hawk for example) have this feature on the trailing edge of their undamped rudder. The tug created by the swirl or vortex keeps dragging the surface straight. It works in theory and hope it’s correct!!!:o

C6