I was hoping they could have used expenses scandal MPs as live subjects in the shelter, for greater realism.

It’s junk to me if it doesn’t have power steering, air con and a damn good sound system… plus it’s an MG, so it’s junk anyway. I’d rather drive a Fiat :diablo:

Having emailed the organisers to point them to this thread I had a remarkably swift response pointing out that the only charge is £5 per additional passenger, so perhaps if your father didn’t fill his car with people he’d get in for free. Perhaps his passengers can get off outside the airfield, walk in and pay the full price like everybody else? Little Gransden charges vehicle owners too. Seems asking for donations from them results in empty buckets. Misers…

Just been told by my father that they charge people to bring classic cars to the show, is this true? If so thats somewhat of a Joke, they pay the owners of the aircraft to attend so why charge people to display classic cars?!

What “display” does this “classic car”* perform? Any loops, rolls, Derry turns, etc.? Or is it just … parked … How much fuel does this “classic car” use during its display or its transit to the venue? Please compare with, say, the consumption of an F-16.

I will hazard a guess the crowd will neither notice nor care if one miserly “classic car” owner is so outraged by being asked to pay to get in to a charity fund-raising event that he stays at home.

* some people say classic car, others may say old heap of junk

Why do you think it’s faked?

Because I was there and the aircraft had passed way off to the left before the pyros went off. Note two people holding up cameras at bottom of frame – following the aircraft, which in reality was far out of shot to the left.

It also didn’t descend by about 100 ft in the space of the 5 seconds or so that would have elapsed between the first frame above and the faked one! If you’re going to fake a shot like this, basic details like keeping the aircraft size consistent does help.

Here’s a video from almost exactly the same view point:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8240485.stm

I count 4 seconds between aircraft going out of shot to left and the explosions having developed into the stage shown in the faked pic.

The last shot is a bit obviously faked. Why ruin your reputation by posting such rubbish?

TSR2 was not equipped with an arrestor hook of any description.

It wasn’t as good as last year, I thought, but it was still an enjoyable day out and my nephew enjoyed himself just as much. Vulcan very disappointing of course but I kind of expected that. The Typhoon display made us both forget about the Vulcan anyway.

I see Chox continues to live in his alternate reality where he’s in the RAF, the sky is green, everybody thought the show was rubbish despite the forums he’s pointing you at showing that most people thought it was a good day out, and the UK is at the height of an economic boom.