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The Great Yorkshire Air Show Sat 26th Sept 2015
Topic Started: Sep 3 2015, 04:32 PM (847 Views)
thomasweir
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Have a great time tomorrow Colin
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ColinM
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Thanks Tom, it should be a good day, plenty of flying displays and static. I will report back.

Colin
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ColinM
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Hi Folks

A very interesting day. Journey time from my house was expected to be 2 hours and at 10am I was indeed five miles from the venue. The last five miles took another 1.5 hours...

The organisers had tried hard with well marked routes but the approach road I was on had roadworks with a single open lane controlled by traffic lights and the last three miles were along narrow lanes and there were an awful lot of cars.

It was advertised as one as the last chances to see the Vulcan and all around the airfield boundary there were cars parked up crammed with people hoping for a free view.

Once inside there was plenty of parking, on the wrong side of the runway so it was a long walk back to the display line, static park and other attractions. There were many, many thousands of people there and although there were various food concessions and banks of portaloos queues for each were taking 30 minutes plus. There were many military vehicles, a funfair, a couple of cockpit sections you could climb into (Tornado and Buccaneer) and the Lytham St Annes Spitfire replica (as seen at Telford a few years ago) was letting young Spitfire pilots pretend they were shooting the Hun.

Weather was overcast on arrival but later in the day the sun was bright and hot.

There were a few traders selling the usual tat that is always at events such as this, but an official Red Arrows simulator was doing brisk trade, and there were many classic cars, and another group of cars that were due to be auctioned. One of the big hangars contained the cockpits, car auction and some traders. If they were to allow model displays I suppose they would go here but I don't think it would be worth doing, £50 would get you one six foot space for one person. Next year is already being arranged, dates set and attractions booked. it has the makings of a major air show. (See separate thread http://s15.zetaboards.com/AMSIG/topic/8069708/1/)

There was a great selection of aircraft displaying and static. I didn't stay for the whole display, I was concerned about being able to get out of the place in a reasonable time. When I left every spare verge and pull in around the boundary had cars, bikes and lots of people waiting for the Vulcan, I imagine that the later traffic would have been horrendous.

There were around 25 aircraft due to display and I saw most of them including three Spitfires, a Dakota C-47, Mig-15, Venom, Meteor, Huey and Loach (as seen at Telford in 2014), P40 Warhawk, Jet Provost, a Pitts S2 pair and the Team Raven display team. The show was opened by the Royal British Legion free fall parachute team. I can't fault the aerial displays, the layout of the airfield and runways allowed some very close views and there were plenty of loops, barrel rolls and aerobatics. I think all of the display aircraft other than the Mig (owned by the Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron) came from private companies/owners.

If the organisers can improve traffic flow and increase the provision of food and facilities they will have a very successful event. (I suspect they will have a very successful event anyway.)

A few photos follow.

Colin

Edited by ColinM, Sep 26 2015, 09:56 PM.
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A few photos from the aircraft park (I now know why my camera cost £150 and Mark's didn't...)

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The odd looking cloud in the back of some shots is the vapour from the cooling towers of the nearby Drax power station.

Colin
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A few more

You don't see many of these...

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Some of the cars up for auction
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The hangar where some of the traders were
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My only aerial picture that worked. The thump of those rotors was wonderful!

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The show has a lot of potential, I wish the organisers well.

Colin
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Looking on twitter this evening I think I did well to see any flying, some people may still be stuck there, you will need to scroll down a little.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/YorkshireAirShow?src=hash

The 'Freeloaders' comment is a valid one. As advised I bought my ticket online (£21.90 including booking fee), carefully printed it out and took it with me. At no stage was I asked to show it. Anyone who knew there was an air show there but hadn't seen the 'you must purchase your tickets in advance online' message so just turned up in a car would have been waved in to the parking area, FOC. The organisers on the day decided to take cash on the door but that would only affect people arriving on foot and considering the location that wouldn't have been many. Anyone arriving by car could get in for free, and at £20 per head that could equate to a lot of lost revenue.

Colin
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thomasweir
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Good pics Colin. Waddington has been equally as bad for access and exiting in the past, the legacy of building airfields in the countryside during WW 2 with no decent road network.
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ColinM
Sep 26 2015, 09:27 PM
A few photos from the aircraft park (I now know why my camera cost £150 and Mark's didn't...)
We won't talk about how much I spent! :fear:
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ColinM
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I found some excellent aerial shots on the Daily mail website

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3250498/Magnificent-men-flying-machines-Huge-array-vintage-military-planes-wow-crowds-Yorkshire-Air-Show.html

Colin
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It has been announced by the RAF today that the Waddington Air Show is no more. RAF Scampton as a possibility from 2017 so it looks like the GYAS will come the main air show event at least for 2016.
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