Like many, I was at Old Sarum on Sat just to see the Vulcan for the last time. It was disappointing that it didn't make it there. However, 2 Spitfires, Swordfish, First War display flight and the B17 made up for it to an extent.
What did let the display down was the lack of organistion on the ground. For them to only have 3 food vans, the airfield's own food venue running out of food by about 1300, drinks in short supply and even running out of cups for the hot drinks by 1500. It was as if the organisers had been taken by surprise with the number of people who went. But as there were no tickets on sale at the gate; it was advance purcahse tickets only, there was no excuse. Next was the lack of organisation in the car park as evryone tried to leave. I saw about 5 stewards who were making little or no effort to organise the departing cars and it was a free for all to get to the exits from the fields. It took over an hour to get from to the exit in the relatively small farmers field which was used as the car park.
The whole ground organistaion was amateurish and felt like a village show than a proffessional air display.
Rant over....a couple of photos..
