If anyone is in need of a ticket for Cosford Airshow I have a spare

[NutLoose]

The 75 year old gent I was taking as a treat for part of his bucket list is in hospital, but I will take him another day, he used to regularly fly in the Lincoln in the museum as an Air Cadet and wants to see it one last time.

But they will need to contact me soonest as I will need to send next day delivery.

It's a freebie and I've also posted on other sites, so don't be disappointed if it goes.


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[salad-dodger]

Hey, we could go together Nutty! ;)

S-D

[NutLoose]

Not a problem..



I will get a tow hitch fitted so I can drag you along behind :p

[NutLoose]

Looks like it has now gone, thanks all.

[salad-dodger]

That's a shame, I was looking forward to our day out Nut :{


I had some old carrots left too.


S-D

[NutLoose]

They been over feeding you again have they. :p

[sunnybunny]

Slight thread drift. What did you think of today? I attended with my family but was a bit disappointed compared with previous years. No Vulcan :sad: and only fast jet a Typhoon. The red arrows gave a very good display despite cloud limitations.

Sat in the rain right to the end waiting for the B52, got a very brief glimpse through the cloud then announced it wasn't going to show.

[ricardian]

This was posted on Facebook by a retired RAF WO:
[QUOTE]Is it just me or RAF standards slipping, lucky enough to be invited to the Cosford airday today, great trip down memory lane and thoughts of all those days spent in the classroom. Only thing that marred the day was the failure of the weather, but to get to the crux of my opening statement, SNCO's/JNCO's giving no direction to juniors who were left to try and get 20,000 plus people off the airfield, added to this it seems you can now stand around in uniform with your hands in your pocket. Were we not always told as NCO's that we were there amongst other things to give guidance to the Junior Ranks. Patently, as you can imagine frustration took over and Joe Public were get frustrated at this lack of direction in relation to getting the traffic moving and when rightly challenged if they could try and use some logic gave what appeared to be a lot of verbal abuse. Open days were the place where we could show the air force at its best, some of the things I saw today left a bad taste, other things like the Arrows display as always were excellent. As I said to my good lady as we struggled to leave and get on the road home, oh to be back in uniform for just 5 minutes, I would give some of these SNCO/JNCO's a good talking to./QUOTE]

[NutLoose]

oh to be back in uniform for just 5 minutes, I would give some of these SNCO/JNCO's a good talking to.While your at it, have a word with the Station Commander, now I know they place was swamped with the public wearing everything under the sun and dropping a lot of it, but it is an aviation training establishment, and the only service personnel "Airside" wearing a hat was the Group Captain., not exactly leading by example. :E
I know what you mean about hands in pockets etc, and one of the Falcons on the ground looked like he could do with a damned good shave.
Getting out was as you said, and there appeared to be no one organising the feeding of cars out of the car park, though there were a few NCO's standing in the tent doorway there, watching the chaos.
But most of the service personnel working were very, very good and helpful, I have done it in the past and know the stupid questions you often have to deal with.

Weather didn't help and the display was lacking in the RAF dept, oddly enough I couldn't fathom out why the Herc was simply limited to a single flypast, heck those under the holding point saw more of him than we did. The ww1 stuff was excellent.

To the organisers, Please, Please, Please, get rid of the commentator with his inane chat about everything under the sun but what was actually displaying, heck he couldn't even tell you when stuff was coming in until it was almost upon you, and then rattled on about totally different things, and as for him correctly telling you the individual display had finished, I don't think he got it right once.

I departed as the Chinook was strutting its stuff and I am glad I didn't stay to see the B52 now I know it was a no show.
PS
I never knew they trained people in the RAF to do nose wheel landings BTW :E




Finally
Thanks to the little space cadet that saw me drop my lens hood and chased after me to return it, shame he nipped off sharpish to rejoin his buddies as i was going to give him a fiver as thanks to get an ice cream. (your eyes would water at the cost of a lens hood, £55 for the one in question.)

A couple of pics from me under poor conditions, Only started editing them so a couple I have done, I had to use manual settings to try to get the best out of the weather.

[NutLoose]

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[NutLoose]

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[GGR155]

Great photos Nutloose as always.

[Wander00]

Nutloose - thanks, brilliant pics

[Finningley Boy]

Nutloose,

Don't know what went wrong with the B-52 it made it to Skrydstrup.

FB:)

[NutLoose]

Think it was he weather at Cosford, low cloud and by then rain.

RAF wheelbarrow Mk 1 saving main wheel tyre wear :O

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7070/27727829961_df606a0e1c_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JfdnPP)Cosford King Air saving tyre wear (https://flic.kr/p/JfdnPP) by Tony Taylor (https://www.flickr.com/photos/142550108@N08/), on Flickr





To be honest he had a little skip on landing, if you click on it the big version it will show it's only running on the nose tyre, see the camera can lie :E