Not much I can add to the above excellent summaries. I’ve been 20 or so times, and always camped (with 40 or so international friends) in the woods a hundred yards into the main campground. Good clean hot showers and a very informal & friendly way to meet up with folk. Hotels get booked up very early, and the traffic can be horrendous at times.

I would seriously recommend staying for the whole show. If you can’t, then make sure you are there for the Saturday Warbirds show. Many folk leave on the Sunday, and the last Monday is usually very quiet.

There are usually some interesting speakers to see at the “Theater in the Woods (sic)” each evening. As stated above, these are listed in the programme, which can be downloaded a few weeks before the event.

A rather stunning satellite photo from 2004 here (2.5Mb but worth downloading)

Brilliant photos, Neal.
I didn’t get to fly at all that day, too busy “upstairs”, but club members flew about 160 local residents.

My special thanks to Trinny for agreeing to bring the JP. A pity we couldn’t arrange a formation fly-by with the only other pure jet…model F16. 😀

Auster must be the only manufacturer who has managed to make all of their products good looking!

Beauty is of course in the eye..etc. Personally I find all Horsters ugly. Girders, eh?

mainly Nomex-clad men and a lady

..the lady being Trinny, I’m sure. 😎 Your description does not identify whether she was also Nomex-clad.

Would you happen to know the distance between the 10 threshold and the 15/33 intersection?

As Trinny says, it’s about a third of the length of 10/28. Ironically, the whole runway length, with a hooly-howly crosswind has a similar effective LDA to that of 04 with the same hooly-howly headwind.

We do get surprised sometimes that PA28 and C172 type spam cans insisting on accepting the 10/28 crosswind component instead of the “shorter” runway headwind component…

..I guess at the end of the day, it is the pilot’s decision etc.

[All of the above does not apply in Janie‘s case because she was being a clever lass. Nor in Trinny‘s either, because she was landing something with a different set of approach parameters!]

Three ex-military trainers from three different countries, from three different era, from the left:

DHC Chipmunk (Canada), Stearman (US Navy) JP5 (UK RAF)

I did not get a piccie of the fourth aircraft that formed the complete Leicester line-up, Bulldog (Scotland)..

Apologies to the spam cans sent “aft”, but it was worth it for the apron view.

..but I did get a piccie of the JP5 “ejecting” its load of cargo upon arrival!

I hope that the Stearman got home OK…a long way back in the cold quartering headwind.
Thanks to all for a wonderful day.

Wonder what the state of the grass is like?

I’ll be on the a/g that morning…I’ll advise grass runway state over the Radio. Because of the dry conditions, it’s recently been OK for lightweight t/w aircraft…drier towards the centre triangle (i.e. the left side of 06 grass..the right side always has a wet patch anyway.)

If anyone prefers the grass, please advise when in the circuit.

To all: Please remember no parallel runway operations, and all circuits are left hand.

KM
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