'Cottesmore is easily the most suitable show venue. Okay, it's under Army control but so what?'

It's not an RAF station and it doesn't have an active runway.

We'll this chap isn't happy about the cancellation!!

Hilter learns RAF Waddington Airshow 2015 cancelled - YouTube

Hitler learns Waddington Airshow Cancelled for 2015
 

You may find find this amusing...

Hilter learns RAF Waddington Airshow 2015 cancelled - YouTube

It's not an RAF station and it doesn't have an active runway.
Er, yes, I already said that and no the runway isn't active... until it's active:p

WH904, have you thought about Catterick?

Wittering, the RAF's newest super base?

It's an RAF station and has an active runway.

NutLoose wrote:

I'd be interested to see data on the FROM Date for that amount of money.

This is from a few years ago, but is based on the only figures that I have available just now.







2011- 2012
RIAT £6,152,663
Other Income £1,186,089
Total Incoming Resources £7,338,752

Grants to charity £136,921


2012-2013
RIAT £5,982,202
Other Income £640,519
Total Incoming Resources £6,622,721

Grants to charity £113,665

From the Waddington Air Show website:

AL1 no F-35 BBC News - F-35 combat jet's UK debut at Fairford Air Tattoo cancelled

Looks like an opportunity for a re-run of 'RAF Spirit of Adventure'.

I seem to recall was one of problems was the change to controlled airspace above North Weald to suit the rearrange of Luton Routings.

Air police, those figures are for RIAT which is Fairford not Waddo :O


From

http://www.waddingtonairshow.co.uk/charities

I think it fair to say that the F-35 was the "star item" for RIAT, at least judging by all the excitement being expressed by youngsters in particular (presumably because the poor souls have never seen any "real" aeroplanes). Without that, then there's only the Su-22... all very nice but hardly worth the admission fee when there is so little else. It makes Waddington's show look all the more impressive.

One has to wonder whether RIAT's allegedly snotty attitude towards XH558 has rather backfired on them this time? It would seem that they thought they could afford to dismiss XH558 as less important because they had a shiny new toy to show off. Now that's gone, they're left with very little.

I guess we're heading for some interesting times. If the RAF is making noises that sound suspiciously like abandonment of all shows, and RIAT manages to pull-off its dullest show so far, it will be interesting to see what happens. Let's hope the outcome isn't too horrible.

Hmm, RIAT has not been worth going to for last 5 years at least! Havn't been to Waddiington since 1979. Too far away!

Only decentish Airshow I regularly attend is Shoreham these days. Eastbourne is OKish; but display Line a little too far from the coast, so could be better.:(

Waddo became a funfair with a tacky market place many years ago.

Nutloose, I know that, I was trying to highlight the difference in revenue to charity donations.

Waddington don't publish costs, the way that RIAT do.

I doubt that Waddington actually spend the same, even if you take a percentage for the military people pressed into action instead of paying for staff.

However the annual contribution to charities from Waddington Airshow looks like it might exceed the contribution from RIAT, with an average of over £155,000 a year.

I think that more people need some more clarity with how much, or how little, money from their ticket actually ends up with the charities.

They can dress it up all they like by saying the proceeds go to charity, but there are lots of expenses to be repaid before they count up any proceeds.

The Airshow Business is much more of a Business than a chance to show off Airpower or a Charity gig.

Hilter learns RAF Waddington Airshow 2015 cancelled - YouTube

Thank you, still drying my eyes as I type :ok:

No active runway and No ATC facilities (the Tower and the Comms / Navaids) have all been ripped out.

When you say "ripped out" I assume you mean "removed" in which case the necessary equipment can be put back easily. It's not as if dormant airfields haven't been re-opened for air shows before. There's absolutely no reason why Cottesmore couldn't be used - it's just a question of will. Obviously, it isn't going to happen as nobody from the RAF is going to propose that the Army should even be approached. Doesn't mean to say that it wouldn't be the best thing to do though :)

If we're talking about reality, I guess we will simply be kept in the dark and eventually the RAF will announce that they are no longer proposing to stage shows of any sort but that they will participate in other events (insert suitable cliches and platitudes at this point etc.). But the outcome will probably be that the Waddington show is abandoned. Hopefully that won't happen but I don't think it's unreasonable to imagine that it will.