FighterControl

Just heard about this on the news locally.

http://www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/air-show/

Here's hoping that they put some thought into it.
Lowestoft (nearby) was quite good but sadly they couldn't make it pay.

Good luck to them.

Just for your info.
Gt Yarmouth has a Maritime Festival, this is always well advertised and reported on, but in all honesty it's a bit poor.
There's often more boats in on a 'normal' week than on the Festival weekend, on previous years there's been tall ships arrive a week after the Festival finished.
Co-ordination at it's finest.

I like their idea of evening displays on Thursday and Friday, and the afternoon displays on Saturday and Sunday.

It's just been on the news that there's a council meeting this morning to decide the fate of the new air show.

They are saying that costs for crowd control and security have risen significantly in light of recent events in France and Germany.

I hope this isn't a new 'trend' for 2017, many smaller events make little profit anyway so rising costs may end them.
I'll update if anything else is announced.

***Update***

12.38 pm Radio Norfolk
Yep, air show been cancelled.
Shame.

Update in local press.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/tourism ... _1_4870167

Hi Peeps

Just to let anyone interested know that the Gt. Yarmouth Seafront 4 day Air Festival has been CANCELLED for this year

Security cost increases are cited as the main cause

They are still planning for next year, but who knows

Cheers

Paddyboy

Update on the official website.

http://www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/air-sho ... irect=true

To whoever combined the two threads.
Thank you.

I have no idea why I didn't think to put Gt Yarmouth in the original 'subject' line.
I even edited it earlier.
I'll get the hang of this internetting stuff one of these days :-)

Heard today that it’s on for 2018.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/great-yarmo ... -1-5263443

June 16th and 17th.

Best they start booking some noisy stuff.

Current line-up

Military Flying Displays

Red Arrows - BAE Systems Hawk T1 x 9
Grob Tutor T1 - 6 FTS (Sunday Only)
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Avro Lancaster B1 (Saturday Only)
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Supermarine Spitfire
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Hawker Hurricane
The Tigers Freefall Parachute Display Team - PWRR, British Army

Civilian Flying Displays

Wildcats Aerobatic Team - Pitts S-2B Special x 2
Blades Aerobatic Team - Extra 300LP/330LP x 4
Rutan Long-EZ - Dan Gay
Avro 504K - Great War Display Team
RAF BE2c - Great War Display Team
RAF SE5a x 2 - Great War Display Team
Sopwith Triplane - Great War Display Team
Junkers CL1 x 2 - Great War Display Team
Fokker Dr1 x 2 - Great War Display Team
Supermarine Spitfire IX - Old Flying Machine Company
de Havilland Vampire FB52 - Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron
de Havilland Vampire T55 - Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron
BAC Strikemaster Mk82s - NWMAS
North American OV-10B Bronco - Bronco Demo Team

Hi dose anyone have a time that the red arrows will be displaying on Saturday and Sunday. I won’t be there first thing and would love to see them.

Kind regards mark

3pm both days! (The organisers released timings last week - click here!)

That should work out ok. A big thank you.

Kind regards mark

Morning Mark

Hope you and your good lady are ok

Enjoy the Reds

Sure they will be superb as always

Fingers crossed for the weather

Paddyboy

I just heard on Radio Norfolk that the first Great Yarmouth Air Show has posted a loss of £584,000.
Organisers (Councillors ?) have just had a meeting and announced it.

That’s a huge amount of money, I don’t know how this affects future shows but it doesn’t bode well.
I thought they’d committed for 2 or 3 years but I should imagine that this has hit their finances quite hard.

It’s a bit of a shame because all said and done it wasn’t too bad a show, we saw both days one from Gorleston and one from Great Yarmouth sea front both were pretty good for a first attempt.

I’ll edit this to update it when Local News Websites post about the meeting.

That will upset the local tax payers!

Seems the CAA have said NO more airshows in June 'cos of the Terns, amongst other gripes

Local official said that the show will return, but maybe 2 or 3 smaller shows dotted about the summer

Anything would be better than nothing

Paddyboy

More info on local sites.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-45664304

http://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/n ... -1-5714049

Update on 2019 Show.

Been on local radio news.

https://m.facebook.com/pg/GreatYarmouth ... l&mt_nav=0

No Airshow for 2019.
Hardly surprising with the huge loss they made.

So sad but sooo predictable: just like Scampton

Can't understand how Clacton can do it financially but Lowestoft and Gt Yarmouth can't. However, the worst thing is that neither of them talked to the Clacton team to get best practice. Do different does not always work.