I thought Duxford was a museum first and an air show venue second so why do you need permanent facilities just to cater for 4 air shows and the odd special event a year?.
As has already been stated, there are already permanent facilities for catering and toilets, and there are more permanent toilets and catering facilities at Duxford than probably any other UK air show venue you care to mention.
Why is the Tank Bank taking a bashing?. If you don’t like what’s happening there, MOVE. There are plenty other vantage points around Duxford to be taken advantage of during an air show.
As for grandstands along the crowd line?. The only place to put them is on the grassed area from Hanger 5 west to the Tank Bank. There is no where from Hanger 5 east to the M11 as they would impede free movement of people, traffic and aeroplanes.
The only improvement I’d make would be to enforce a no tent/wind break rule and the removal of chairs/tables etc. fixed to the crowd line barrier. Then again how would you enforce it as Joe Public can get quite territorial when his little piece of space is under threat, even if it does belong to the IWM, which means some poor security guy hired for the day is going to take the brunt of it
Brian
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