Says 29 in April this year
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Attended Legends Friday, Sat and SUN.

Friday is a must in my view we saw different displays to the show days.
On airshow days the GA park extended right down the field not so many Friday.
There are things to do for the family if they are not interested in the flying, play areas, hangers. Land Warfare etc Plenty of room for picnics. But it is not compulsory to bring the family. Interesting your children in air shows is solely your responsibility and the people we moan about have parents who are not really interested it is just a day out. Of course the shows need the money.
One company seems to hold the franchise for the vast majority of food and IMHO is very poor and therefore expensive. The coffee is well terrible.
At other airshows, Coventry and RIAT there was very good food and coffee at reasonable prices. RIAT has large varied selection.
Excellent coffee can be found in the FOD tent. The PIMMS burgers were very good and same price as the other vendor.

We had a Gold for one day but there were even children in there, there are no children tickets, and one came down and stood at the front. IMHO certainly not worth the money, catering staff disinterested and coffee terrible. Certainly will not do that again really it is worse than FOD as at least there you can get decent coffee , other drinks and biscuits.

In general other than RIAT we do find the lack of control of children at the crowd line a day spoiler.
In FRIAT stand had to ask a lady sitting three seats down to stop “talking” to somebody two rows back whilst flying was taking place as she was ruining the sound on the video.
The FRIAT enclosure and the extra access this gets you is well worth the expense with dedicated good food and coffee, left luggage and undercover seating area. Best pictures in my view were taken from the rope line not in the stand, so bring chairs just the same.
Despite being on site for three days hardly saw any of the static/stalls etc which extend most of the length of the field there is loads to entertain the rest of the family.

I found the commentary annoying at Legends for all the reasons already given. At RIAT it is worse they actually play pop music!! Need to split the Tannoy system into 2 one for the static with music and the second in the various enclosures with just the commentary.

I am very lucky my wife takes a keen interest and always joins me and enjoys the show and listens to me rambling on and on.

As for cost the term is relative to your personal circumstances. But as has been said airshows are actually cheap when compared with other forms of entertainment and when you take into account the cost of running the machines we are interested in they are very cheap. If you cannot afford it then just like anything else you cannot afford you have to go without. I cannot afford the car I would like but I do not go down the show room and steal one.

I was very surprised at the naughty fields at RIAT as the owners of the fields are taking money and they are clearly in the “danger” zone. Good luck with that with the insurance company if there was ever an accident but then they are probably not insured. One wonders what the situation is with regard to planning use as well.

This, of course, has all been discussed endlessly before and we all have our own views.

Mine is “There is no such thing as a free lunch” if you want to continue to see these aeroplanes fly you need, in fact, must pay.

Always make a contribution when visiting “free” museums. The only place I wouldn’t make a contribution is IWM North it is truly appalling. Seriously if I had paid to get in I would have asked for my money back.

My family used to go to Biggin Hill in the late fifties and sixties it was a totally different world then and I do not just mean the displays. My brother and I went in our school uniforms complete with caps!!

We will all very much appreciate the effort.

A lot of hard work! Is all good for Sunday then?

Just hang on one minut.
Just need to chek sumthing.

Yep Im in the rite place Key Aviation Forum.

Yep Historik Aviation.

For a minut their I thought I had strayed onto the Greengrocers Forum.

I cum here cause Im interested in and wont to learn from other membrs about historik ‘planes. If I was interested in English gramer and speling I would go sumwhere diferent.
If the meening is cleer it dosnt mater one tuppeny f@+& how it is spelt or if the punctuation is correct.

Gramer/spelling police what is your point? Have you added anything to the subject of the thread? Dos it make u feel superior?

If greengrocers aphostrefies wory you so much take it to Generel for a discussion.

Many on here have all sort’s of problem’s which u are quite rightly unaware ov in my view as long as a post is understandable then leave well alone.

Jack ignore these self elected police I understood perfectly what you said, I am starting to struggle to spell, or at times even recall, even the simplest of words and have to look them up, this can also be embarasing in a live conversation.

I was taught that “aeroplane” should be shortened to “‘plane”, however, common usage over the intervening n years has made “plane” acceptable.

There, got a aeroplane reference in. (yes I know grates doesn’t it):D

There you are guys knock yourselves out.

Old but not sad!!!:D

Nice of you to think so Charlie, we don’t seem to disagree on much. 🙂

I find the older I get the more I see our engineering heritage being destroyed or thrown away the sadder I get.

Thinking of taking up gardening.

I’m with TA on this. Basic rule of advertising clear, concise and accurate. Full location and date should be clearly on front including post code. Often find many do not quote postcode. You should not have to go searching for this basic info.

Sad old man.