I was there yesterday and heard no mention, unless it’s hushed up .

The Heritage Flight is an exciting development, provided I can ignore the predictable comments from the inevitable monotonous voiced Brits in the crowd complaining about the US commentary and music.:eagerness:

The Reds will just do a flat or rolling show?
At Biggin they opted for a stream take off rather than a formation one.
I’m surprised Farnborough is going ahead after all that’s happened, but then big business trumps everything.

I can’t justify keeping a printer just for the odd airshow ticket (the carts dry up )
The IWM did say you can show your e-ticket on a phone or tablet which is fine but what of the silly car pass, hold the fone on a selfie stick out the window as I drive by to show to an attendant???

“was the american air show an all ticket affair then? if so that perhaps that would explain the low attendance?”

Alf, Yes indeed it was, and yes that undoubtedly led to the low attendance.

The crowds were way down on the Sunday too.
I bagged a seat during the Red Arrows display in the Friends area and had my choice of others, this is unheard of normally.
The displays were further away but still enjoyable.
At one point mid display I left the enclosure for another browse of the stalls and one popular book retailer was beginning to dismantle its pitch and the others were just as quiet.
I spoke with a very well known aviation author who attends all the shows and his first words were, when the low numbers were brought up by me , that the all ticket policy was absolutely to blame, followed by the new ticket and car pass prices and lacklustre line up.
The IWM Duxford got a good kicking over the weekend lets hope they listen.
Away from these current irritations the revamp of the AAM impressed me but I’d rather the section on the CND peace camp had been left out,even it was part of the history. Those women weren’t peaceful protestors, disgusting vandals yes who no doubt went on to find success in Labour councils up and down the country.

The big screens erected added to the display by playing clips relevant to the display as well as helping those already
plagued with poor eyesight to view the distant aircraft.
This all said, I still had an enjoyable day and the main benefit was being able to start my car and drive out of the Bailey Bridge car park onto the M11 within 2 minutes, totally unheard of normally.
We need to tolerate this season and there are signs elsewhere that the CAA are willing to listen to exemption requests for some acts.
I am assuming the final AAIB report will be published outside of this season because that is another storm we need to weather.
Finally, Duxford aren’t RIAT and without a ‘star’ item or major aviation anniversary the all ticket policy is a failure.
The average last minute family punter isn’t concerned with changed crowd line distances and what the A and B axis is.
They wake up to a nice day and want to go to an airshow.
This last weekend, they were robbed of that spontaneity.

Interesting how the two sets of photo’s from two different cameras and two photographer’s tinkerings have altered the Blue Nose colour significantly from what it really is. They have become darker and more of a midnight blue whereas it is in fact a greyer colour veering towards a Prussian Blue. Matched directly to surviving paint chips on the doors of the wartime latrines at Bodney which were painted the same colour apparently. If you look at DCW’s first pictures from today, they are more faithful to the real colour as opposed to the later renditions which are notably different.

I was thinking the same thing ! If i was looking for a reference on the ‘Bluenoser blue’ ,the result in DCW’s pics are what I’ve read that they approximate to.
I wonder if ‘Miss Helen’ is going to be sharing ‘Fly in a Mustang’ duties with ‘The Shark’ at Goodwood?

I think Farnborough have something sorted for that but cannot for the life of me remember where I read it. As for Fairford, the Rhymes campsite/viewing area on the northern perimeter fence is not happening this year

I’m not sure if the Totterdown site will be business as usual. But I have yet to wade into the threads on various airshow forums.

TS

Re Farny, when BAE systems have stuff to flog all rules go out the window