Other than this is the Historic Aviation Forum? 🙂

It is historic in a way because Thorium is/was used in jet engine construction and missile fuselages

Its not negative -its pointing out that many North and North West enthusiasts are going to find it expensive in fuel !That will be off putting to some!

Yes but that was the case for Shoreham too, dealers/buyers from the North and North West still turned up though. Using Google Maps, Shoreham is 18 minutes and 23 miles nearer to Manchester than Brenzett, not really significant. Newark is much closer to people in the North and North West but very few dealers go there. So I don’t think that distance plays that big a part in deciding whether to attend.

Hopefully next years event will have a bit more in the way of aircraft exhibits “& maybe an aerojumble stall or 2 ?”.

Bob T.

If you contact Alf Tupper I’m sure he’ll help you to increase the number of exhibits and Aerojumble stalls. 😀

Not sure the location is going to attract enormous crowds ! Maybe a few more visitors from the continent!

Don’t be so negative. It’s a good museum in one of the nicest parts of Kent.

Glad it went well chaps! I will try to display next year. Any pics would be great!

yer ’tis

https://picasaweb.google.com/116243599059675114004/Mfms14080103?authkey=Gv1sRgCJPAt_OVrpDyKQ

I’m not the worlds best photographer and the light wasn’t always that great but you’ll have an idea of what it was like. Starts with the beer tent then military stuff, don’t try to understand it because everyone mixed in with each other at some time. In some photos there’s a mix of 20th and 21st centuries with cowboys and medieval. Then it’s stuff for sale, people and aviation.

Questions welcome, preferably on the backs of used fivers. Could be fifties but I’m not greedy.
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I was there and have the photos but I was too tired when I arrived home last night to do anything with them.

I would echo what Stuart said, it was a brilliant event that unlike War and Peace doesn’t take itself too seriously. On Saturday evening, after the paying public had left, there was a surprise attack on Spearfish Creek, the cowboy encampment, by Waffen SS, Russian WW2 infantry and modern British soldiers in desert clothing. The attack was repulsed due to superior intelligence and weaponry. The cowboys knew they were coming and had two cannon, the best the opposition could manage were .5 machine guns. The cannon were amazing. Even though there was no projectile, or even wadding, the recoil sent them back about a foot and the shockwave travelled at least 100yards to the marquee I was located in.

The air show was short but very entertaining. I didn’t see any of the planned battles but the static displays were well thought out. They may not take themselves seriously but they do take accuracy very seriously. It was odd seeing an SS officer walking along with modern Russian and British soldiers, there was a bombed out café used by the French Resistance, a medieval camp site.

The entertainment on Friday and Saturday evenings was free and the cider was lethal. Friday was a DJ playing good music, no rap or similar modern stuff and a live singer, Annie Andrews I think. Saturday was the Jive Aces.

GOKONE and I are booked in for next year, I think Stuart and Mike are going next year. It would be good to see more aviation content but if not we’ll still have a good time at an excellent event.

The crime was unsuccessful !!! He didn’t get away with it!

If they didn’t recover the money he made then he got away with it. Prison or fines are just a cost of doing business to these people.

Usual high forum participation I see……

Agreed

This sort of thing fills me with despair. The Essex lot are really enthusiastic about having a greater aviation content and it’s probably the best opportunity we will ever have to draw attention to, and promote, what we do in all its forms and yet there’s hardly anyone willing to commit.

A lot of people say that Cockpitfest is too far north to attend, this isn’t so where are you?