Southport Airshow 2015

[aviationcafe]

Dates: 19/20 September 2015

The Flying display has been confirmed for this:

The Red Arrows Sat 16:30 Sun 12:30
Typhoon
Hawk T2 Role Demo
Grob Tutor
Black Cats
Sea King SAR Demo
Swordfish
Chinook
Mig 15
RV8tors
Blades
P-51 Mustang
Bulldog
Rolls Royce Spitfire XIX (Saturday Only)
Hurricane & Spitfire
Xtreme XA41
Tigers Freefall Team
P-51 Mustang & Hawker Hunter
Meteor (T7 or NF.11)
Breitling Wingwalker Solo
Army historic Aircraft Flight

[mark.alan.barnes]

I'll be up there. My Wife's family live there so I can hit two birds with one stone.

I see the Vulcan is confirmed for the Saturday....... Result! I was planning on doing Southport on the Saturday then Duxford on the Sunday!

[aviationcafe]

Display times for the Saturday:

• Chinook 12:55
  Jet Provost 13:05
  Sea King 13:15
  The Blades 13:37
  P-51 Mustang 13:54
  The Tigers Free Fall Team 14:06
  The Vulcan 14:35
  Spitfire XIX 14:45
  Swordfish 14:59
  Black Cats 15:09
  Xtreme XA41 15:23
  Mig 15 15:33
  Typhoon "with beach explosions" 15:43
  Bulldog & tutor 15:52
  Bulldog 15:57
  Tutor 16:05
  Meteor 16:15
  Red Arrows 16:30
  Scout AH1 16:57
  Hurricane & Spitfire 17:05
  Hawk T2 Role Demo 17:22

Display times for Sunday:

• Red Arrows 12:30
  P-51 Mustang 12:59
  Sea King 13:09
  Tigers Freefall Team 13:34
  The Blades 13:56
  Jet Provost 14:13
  Swordfish 14:25
  Black Cats 14:35
  Bulldog & Tutor 14:49
  Bulldog 14:54
  Tutor 15:02
  Hurricane & Spitfire 15:12
  Meteor 15:29
  Mig 15 15:39
  Xtreme XA41 15:49
  Scout AH1 15:58
  Hawk T2 Role Demo 16:06
  Typhoon "with beach explosions" 16:18

Source: http://www.visitsouthport.com/whats-on/ ... %20updates

Please Note: All timings are subject to change and will be updated accordingly.

[aviationcafe]

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NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS
We are extremely pleased and proud to announce that on Saturday 19th September we are able to make an amazing addition to our flying programme.

The last EVER flypast with the Vulcan and the Red Arrows!!

As this is the last display season for the Vulcan, there will never be another chance to see this unique and incredible formation.

This is the last EVER flypast with the Vulcan and the Red Arrows and it is happening here, at the Southport Air Show!

[seven]

I love being proved right


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[mark.alan.barnes]

Tickets printed off.

Three sets of batteries charged for the scanner.

Only the car to clean and that is me ready for the Saturday!

[dervish]

Related to this. The tin triangle will fly over the Runcorn/Widnes bridges at 13:40 as a salute to Roy Chadwick (who was born in Farnworth) then meet up with the sparrows as they come back from Kleine Brogel. Reds continue into Warton and triangle pootles about over the beach at Southport.

[Headancer]

Sadly rumours suggest the Flypast over Widnes Bridge is cancelled (See NWAN).

If you do want maximum number of people to see it, would seem obvious to route South of Man TMA and toward HAW before then turning North up the Mersey !

[dervish]

Sadly rumours suggest the Flypast over Widnes Bridge is cancelled (See NWAN).

If you do want maximum number of people to see it, would seem obvious to route South of Man TMA and toward HAW before then turning North up the Mersey !

Announced on VttS website late yesterday afternoon that it was cancelled due to the likelyhood people would actually want to watch it.

South of Ringway and towards Hawarden would be good for people over towards the Wirral (though it should be meeting up with the sparrows off the North Gog coast so possibly good views for the plastic scousers anyway?). Routing down the Mersey would be better for numbers and given that the M62 and M6 usually seem like car parks when I travel down there that could work well!

[mattbruff]

Sadly rumours suggest the Flypast over Widnes Bridge is cancelled (See NWAN).

If you do want maximum number of people to see it, would seem obvious to route South of Man TMA and toward HAW before then turning North up the Mersey !

Announced on VttS website late yesterday afternoon that it was cancelled due to the likelyhood people would actually want to watch it.

South of Ringway and towards Hawarden would be good for people over towards the Wirral (though it should be meeting up with the sparrows off the North Gog coast so possibly good views for the plastic scousers anyway?). Routing down the Mersey would be better for numbers and given that the M62 and M6 usually seem like car parks when I travel down there that could work well!

What an ignorant little urchin you really are!

[Mayfly]

Related to this. The tin triangle will fly over the Runcorn/Widnes bridges at 13:40 as a salute to Roy Chadwick (who was born in Farnworth) then meet up with the sparrows as they come back from Kleine Brogel. Reds continue into Warton and triangle pootles about over the beach at Southport.

Apparently it was one the best displays to date.

[mark.alan.barnes]

I was fortunate in that I attended RIAT on the Saturday and also was at Southport Saturday.

The formation fly past with the RAFAT was much closer than performed at RIAT and the trailing Hawks were almost inline with the rear of the Vulcan. At Fairford they were in a vee preceding the Vulcan.

With regards to the display: Kev Rumens flew the wings off it! Have a search on youtube then have a say!

The rest of the day, well the usual really..... Four hours to do a two hour journey then four hours home (just what I needed after less than three hours sleep as I'd been at a wedding the day before). What was unusual was the crowds! I've never seen as many at Southport, it was like Fairford in its' heyday! I haven't found any link to numbers yet but I would guess at 70k+.

We were very lucky with the weather as I had driven up in fog that did not lift until I had got past Stoke, then it was overcast until Midday, then the 'current bun' came out in time for the air show.

Funnily enough, I think that this was the only show I have been at that 'The Reds' managed to do their full routine at whereas they have done the flat and rolling shows throughout the rest of the year.

Chinook to start, Typhoon to finish! All in all a great day out.