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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by mikeysoft » Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:19 am

Thanks. Are you saying the BBMF are staying at Blackpool overnight on Saturday? So they'll be flying to the area from Con and over the sea via Blackpool, then flying into Blackpool airport after their display ready for Sunday?
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by Oscar555 » Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:11 am

I would go to Blackpool too, and if you want to watch vulcan later on, have a drive to Lytham fairhaven lake, if the weather is clear you should see it in the distance...

Blackpool airports twitter page have got timings for lancasters etc

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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by mikeysoft » Sat Sep 20, 2014 11:06 am

Great thanks, can see the Blackpool schedule now.
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by bob909 » Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:51 pm

Vulcan now slotted in for 16.10 Sunday after not being able to get out of Doncaster due to weather today.
Incidently The Jet Provost display seemed to be curtailed after appearing to get rather low on a turn towards crowd. Just my opinion but didn't look like a normal manouvre. Was a good job to all crews concerned to display today as weather wasn't too good at times.

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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by mikeysoft » Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:28 pm

Mission accomplished. Thanks everyone. Excellent views of the Lancasters landing at Blackpool from the dunes. Certainly compensated for my dad not being able to attend East Kirkby.

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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by Oscar555 » Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:35 pm

Nice one mikey glad your Dad enjoyed it :)

An awesome sight seeing them overfly together:grin:

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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by dervish » Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:29 pm

mikeysoft wrote:Mission accomplished. [/url]
Glad you were able to get your dad over to see them. I imagine the view of Vera (in particular) was good from the dunes as she waited for Thumper to clear the runway.
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by batman7617 » Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:09 pm

bob909 wrote:Vulcan now slotted in for 16.10 Sunday after not being able to get out of Doncaster due to weather today.
Incidently The Jet Provost display seemed to be curtailed after appearing to get rather low on a turn towards crowd. Just my opinion but didn't look like a normal manouvre. Was a good job to all crews concerned to display today as weather wasn't too good at times.
I also noticed this Bob, it was a bit of hold breath move and looked as though the pilot miss judged the pull out as he was only 50ft approx off the deck and as you said, direct towards the crowd at the pier end of the beach, certainly didn't look like a planned move.
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by Blue Diamond » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:00 am

Great show at Southport today. The JP managed to stay out of trouble and the two Lancs were superb as always. Never been before but I think I'll ad this to my calendar for the future.
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Post by deerhunter » Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:56 am

Show on Sunday was great apart from traffic, took 2 hours to travel 3miles, but never mind it was worth it.
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by beefsteak » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:31 pm

deerhunter wrote:Show on Sunday was great apart from traffic, took 2 hours to travel 3miles, but never mind it was worth it.

Let the train take the strain..... I did (He said looking smug) and was having dinner in a restaurant 50 miles away before my mate had even got out of Southport!!
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by Newey2448 » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:53 pm

batman7617 wrote:
bob909 wrote:Vulcan now slotted in for 16.10 Sunday after not being able to get out of Doncaster due to weather today.
Incidently The Jet Provost display seemed to be curtailed after appearing to get rather low on a turn towards crowd. Just my opinion but didn't look like a normal manouvre. Was a good job to all crews concerned to display today as weather wasn't too good at times.
I also noticed this Bob, it was a bit of hold breath move and looked as though the pilot miss judged the pull out as he was only 50ft approx off the deck and as you said, direct towards the crowd at the pier end of the beach, certainly didn't look like a planned move.

I'm glad someone else noticed that! I think the JP pilot misjudged the roll and after pulling out of it climbed away to have a word with himself!

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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by deerhunter » Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:44 am

Let the train take the strain..... I did (He said looking smug) and was having dinner in a restaurant 50 miles away before my mate had even got out of Southport!!
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Must admit though, got a good spot when we eventually got on site, also managed to do a bit of birding whilst sat in traffic, so it wasn't wasted.
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by Blue Diamond » Fri Sep 26, 2014 5:17 pm

beefsteak wrote:
deerhunter wrote:Show on Sunday was great apart from traffic, took 2 hours to travel 3miles, but never mind it was worth it.

Let the train take the strain..... I did (He said looking smug) and was having dinner in a restaurant 50 miles away before my mate had even got out of Southport!!
I took the train also but it was a tad wedged on departure. Strengthening the formations would have helped but that would have involved logical thought by Northern and I donut think they are capable of that. My first visit to the show and was most enjoyable nevertheless.
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by beefsteak » Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:27 pm

Damndest thing is, I felt rather miffed and let down to hear that the tin triangle had cancelled as it couldn't get air born from Doncaster. (Although I was already committed to attending before it was announced she was coming)

Now call me cynical if you want, but my mate was at Doncaster Market at the time wearing shorts and T shirt!!, another mate flew out of Finningly to Cyprus at 16 .10 hrs with no problems what so ever, saying it was a cloud base of around 5,000 feet there when he left and two WW2 air frames were able to get to Southport from less than 40 miles away from Finningly.................... :whistle:

Also the Great war Display team 'cancelled at the last minute' yet according to their own web page they weren't ever down to display there!!

I hate to say it , but I feel that Southport asked the Vulcan to the Sky Trust to knock it back a day so that they would sell more tickets on Sunday (Seeing as how they had already had more there on Saturday than had been there over the two days the year before!!)

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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by Oscar555 » Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:16 pm

Saturday didn't look too clever up there
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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by Oscar555 » Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:26 pm

[quote= I took the train also but it was a tad wedged on departure. Strengthening the formations would have helped but that would have involved logical thought by Northern and I donut think they are capable of that. My first visit to the show and was most enjoyable nevertheless.[/quote]

They couldn't get it right with forecasting numbers going to see 'The Giants' in Liverpool n trains were chaotic, you'd think they'd know what to expect here !

Cycled in, lots of cars with tickets on parked on the coast rd pavement/cycle path on way home, good job cars crawling out of southport, as saw a few people with kids in prams having to walk on rd in couple of places...


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Re: Southport Airshow 2014

Post by aviationcafe » Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:13 pm

Blue Diamond wrote: I took the train also but it was a tad wedged on departure. Strengthening the formations would have helped but that would have involved logical thought by Northern and I donut think they are capable of that. My first visit to the show and was most enjoyable nevertheless.
I also took the train to Southport but on the Friday, due to line works between Hunts Cross & South Parkway the train I was on was absolutely packed, ended up getting off at Sandhills & catching the next one which was empty...

On the Sunday though I thought getting the 5:15 train was going to be hectic with the amount that was there, but managed to grab a space for the pushbike without any hassle. Its definitely worth spending a small amount of time walking around the displays/stalls before heading to the train though!

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