CHOX, i think you are being a bit tough on the organisers, i have attended in the static with my yak for the last few years and the vast majority of visiters are families and they have a whale of a time, they get into the fairground, the stalls the simulator, cockpit photo stuff and walk through of the heavies etc and the flying display is often just a backdrop for them – excellent pr for the airforce. i would guess the enthusiast is looking for something different, say a display by new types or one off flying examples of classic stuff – which is hard to find, what airforce is getting new hardware these days. you have seen it all before but this is not the fault of the organisers, my airfield has over 40 aircraft based there and i could get only 4 to commit for the 4 days that attending wad with their aircraft involves, after the airforces have committed to the show with the military stuff the organisers are left to fill the gaps in the flying with civvy stuff, the vulcan gets paid to come then it is the sponsored teams and solos who are pretty much free to the organisers, what else can they do ? they would have to spend a fortune of the charity proceeds to get the sexy civilian stuff in and the gate take would not go up any more, waddington is a bread and butter show, for the exotic aorcraft you have to hunt out the venues and sometimes you just have to be lucky, the shows like finningley used to be , with lots of service types ripping around the sky are gone forever, i guess thats a shame but waddington is what it is, and it is good at what it is. although i will never understand why parking cars is so badly understood, single file into a field for a queue five miles long?
yours
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