If you don’t have a ticket (paid or otherwise) to enjoy the entertainment you’re freeloading.

Not really. What about all those thousands who are in a position to take images of airshow participants but who are nowhere near the airfield? Or the folks who live in the houses and villages surrounding most airfields, the folk (maybe even photographers) who live, or contrive to be, under the approach or depature routes, the bloke with a long lens stuck in the traffic queue waiting to get into, eg, RIAT. There are thousands of such people. Are they freeloaders?

I’ve been going to air shows for donkeys years now, since before you were born in fact. I admit the early years were kind of ‘free’ because I was either on the station or support to the away displays. But now I’ll always pay to enter not begruding one penny – except maybe at RIAT which is a con. Air shows for me, and thousands like me, are not primarily about photography they’re about meeting old friends, that and basking in an aviation centric atmosphere for a few hours. Seems to me that the good folks on this thread are getting exercised mostly about competition in taking the ‘best’ photos.

And that’s no problem. It’s a good thing in fact. The images presented here, and in other places, are orders of magnitude better that anything I (or most) can produce. But they’re not the main reason for air shows in my opinion.

If some folks stand ‘outside the fence’, so what? Means little in the overall scheme of things and doesn’t detract in any way from the quality of non-freeloader images does it?.

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Are you going to paint the Sea Vixen in Red Bull colours? 🙂

Ha! Ha! Don’t be silly, it’ll be finished in Famous Grouse colours. :diablo:

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Supposed to be an RAF organised dig on the site of the old dump looking for Spitfire, Hurricane and Lincoln bits in August this year..

That’s to be at Kenley I believe.

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Pennies? They’re gutted! There are going to be a lot of these coming up soon enough, and surely there will be plenty more with rather more bits still attached!

Thought the Jags have had their operational life extended to around June 2007. Something to do with keeping all the spare pilots in the RAF off the streets I suppose. Heard a dire rumour that some of the Jags were being considered as CAS for the troops in Afgahnthingy. Doubt it would work though – too high and too hot for Jags. :rolleyes:

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Rob. Cracking images squire.

Gawds! Contrition here. :confused: Sorry Brittania, went square shaped there. Your images of course. No excuses really, must read who actually posts a thing!

A senior moment there exacerbated by having been at Waddo since 07:00 on Sun and had just returned home (22:00) tired, hot, dehydrated, knackered, etc.

Would still like to use your pic of XH134 finishing its landing if I could. 🙂

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