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Old 20th Feb 2016, 20:40
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The Oberon
 
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They can pay themselves as much as they want, they can also provide all the required on site manning but as a local, Scampton village, it is painfully obvious that no thought has been given to what happens outside the airfield boundaries. The police make the best of a bad job when it comes to major events on the show ground but when you extend the area further north to cover Scampton you cannot use the same traffic pattern. In addition, 3 sides of the airfield boundary are open to the non paying fraternity via tracks across open fields, non of which have public footpath status. This means cars parked up on B road verges whilst their occupants cram round the fences leaving tons of rubbish when they leave. In short, too many "naughty areas" and all the problems involved. I really don't see the point of it all. In it's later years, Waddington was a large, cheap and nasty fun fair/boot sale with a hand full of aircraft thrown in. I saw F117, B1 and B2 in the past but nothing interesting for years.
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