Waddington Air Show 07-07-2013

[Frosticles]

Ok, Not trains but what a day out it was.

Did anyone else go?

Full set of pics here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/28825728@N08/sets/72157634547963134/

Couple of samples -


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[crewmeal]

Brilliant superb shots, excellent quality, well done.

 

[Frosticles]

Thank you. My first attempt at Aircraft. Fantastic day.

 

[ryan125hst]

Ok, Not trains but what a day out it was.

Did anyone else go?

I certainly did! I went on the Saturday with my family. We had a fantastic day (I didn't take any photos though) and particularly enjoyed the Blades, Red Arrows and the Vulcan. On Saturday, they displayed one after the other from about half past one, so it was a fantastic hour and a half. Sadly, the order was different on the Sunday with the Vulcan displaying at around 11:45, so you wouldn't have got the same effect.

We were lucky to get in! We were going to buy a ticket on the gate, so you can imagine my panic when I saw on their website that it is unlikely that any tickets will be available. A mad dash to our local HSBC and we had our tickets about 5 minutes before the branch shut on Friday!

How were the traffic queues for you? We got in fine at just after 8am, but we were queueing for almost an hour and a half to get our of the brown car park, having set of at 5pm!

Excellent photographs by the way.

 

[Frosticles]

Sunday was extremely busy. I was lucky as I took my Classic Car along so enabled me free entry & parking before the general public. Just as well as the car's radiator fan siezed up on the way in so it nearly boiled up............

 

[43067]

fantastic photos, i was working at the RNAS Yeovilton airshow last saturday, and the highlight for me was watching Vulcan XH558 flying and the chinook doing things a chinook should not do for such a big helicopter.

 

[ryan125hst]

fantastic photos, i was working at the RNAS Yeovilton airshow last saturday, and the highlight for me was watching Vulcan XH558 flying and the chinook doing things a chinook should not do for such a big helicopter.

The Vulcan is an amazing aircraft. I will be very sad when it has to stop flying. :cry:

They can certainly throw those Chinooks and helicopters around! Did someone open the door at the back of the Chinook and start waving with a big orange had at the Yeovilton airshow? They did at Waddington!

 

[heart-of-wessex]

The Vulcan is an amazing aircraft. I will be very sad when it has to stop flying. :cry:

They can certainly throw those Chinooks and helicopters around! Did someone open the door at the back of the Chinook and start waving with a big orange had at the Yeovilton airshow? They did at Waddington!

Yes, seen the Vulcan each year at Fairford. Looks 99.9% chance that the Vulcan B2 will retire in 2015 when it's structure certificate runs out. Epic shame but I'll be making sure I'll see her in 2014 and 2015!