Called into the farm this morning after work.
the place was allset up .

a lot of work had been done since last year with a long section of the hedge taken out at the front of the main battle field in front of the grass bank .
all with a hardcore base laid down and fence erected . it would also serve for a car park for the night time dinner dance in the large marquee.

all the trade tents etc all set up . what a lot of effort gone to waste due to this weather,

the days of just bring some wellies are gone today . its now all Health and safety .

Once again a real shame for all the hard work thats gone on over the year for it all to end due to the weather.

Build your own wooden workshop.

Price up from a few local timber yards the price for a few hundred meters of tongue and groove and some 2×2 timber for the frame work. other option if you do not want a tongue and groove finish is go for 8×4 ply wood sheets this quickens and makes the build a lot easier and the option of when building it to have 8×4 sections making it easy to take down in the future in said sections.

Seen this posted on the TVOC Website.

Flight Schedule Is In The News Area Under “Flight Operations” Sub Heading.

Due to a technical issue with the port under carriage while repositioning the aircraft from Waddington to Brize Norton the aircraft will not be able to display at Dunsfold, Sywell or Broadlands Park.

TO BE CONFIRMED.

As TJ as stated above . she should be out of Waddington and over to Lowestoft and RAF Marham Thursday.

What would you have done to make it happen then?

only chance it had of going ahead was if on Tuesday they stopped all entering the site and kept the car parks and entrances closed . they had the weather forecast for the week. poor weather Weds till Friday evening , the weekend was not going to be that bad .

The facts are they did not and let the place get ripped to bits.

if they closed the site prior to the weekend, ordered a trailer of straw at each entrance to the field car parks to be in place to be laid down Friday night and also got a tractor to pull a drainage spiked roller over the grass on the airfield viewing grass , they may have salvaged Saturdays show or even Sundays.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing thou.

But i feel the place was killed off by the weather and the use of the place while the rain was chucking it down. it had a slim chance if the steps above was carried out .

next year if the forecast is for rain leading up the the show than they should keep everyone out and off the car parks.
the weather on the Saturday and Sunday was very good for an Airshow.

many places had poor weather all week. but Ive not seen any other outside event that weekend cancelled. why because there car parks and show arena’s etc where not used while the rain fell. but only used after some soak time and bit of dry weather.

A shame it was killed by the weather at the end of the day. but a little thought they may of got one of the weekend days out of the week.

this will kill of any idea of anvanced tickets for next year i doubt many will buy into it next year. pay on the day and see the weather first.

I did notice that Waddington had laid a steel road from the main entrance all the way across to the parking Grass. they was prepared a little this year after last years mishap. and it rained most of the Saturday moring also. it saved the entrances and they got Sunday out of it also.

Would be nice for her to have a health check at Cov. any of her arrivals times would be nice as ive got my sons school sports day to photograph around 13.00hrs.

The 1st Aircraft i sat in was Just Jane as a 4 year old boy .
She was than at the time at Blackpool .

i did post a snap shot sometime ago of me and my Brother at the front of her at Blackpool . will see if i still have it floating around on an Hardrive somewhere.

Would love to sit in her once again maybe one day when i have some spare cash .

That Avro Lanc got me into this hobby and the whole Avro types.
still the same Avro fan as i was 38 years ago sitting in just Jane with me little stick of Blackpool rock.

Would be nice for her to fly again not an impossible task . after seeing the BBMF lanc dismantled at Coventry . Would seem it can be done very well with the right amount of funding. would be a lot cheaper to get airborne than say the Vulcan cost.