Old Sarum XH558

[miniman]

Anyone know what time XH558 is at Old Sarum tomorrow? Anyone going?

[Riley Blue]

16:49.

[miniman]

Really? Where did you find that, I can't see any timings anywhere!

[RalphyM]

Any idea of the route down and timings? It has flown straight over our house before and assume it would do the same route.

[SydneyBridge]

meant to be Goodwood at 4.10pm

[RalphyM]

Cheers, unlikely to fly over us then but maybe on the way home.

[miniman]

Old Sarum confirm 16:40. Will be heading over lunchtime.

[miniman]

Diverted home after Goodwood due to technical issue. Bugger.

[Mave]

Indeed, queues on the way there, queues on the way out, and no vulcan to be seen. just got home with tired, ratty and very disappointed boys :-(

[Gareth79]

I went there because it was the last southerly display (other than Goodwood), everybody was disappointed of course :/ After the announcement lots of people left rather than see the end of the display, a bit rude for the B17 really. Probably took me 25 mins to get out, not toooo bad... I think a lot of the delay was people turning right out of the field exit rather than just go left and use the roundabout, even though there were cones to direct people to do that. Probably a sign instructing drivers would help next year.

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

A real shame the Vulcan didn't make it, but otherwise a nice little show. Didn't have the proper camera with me, but got some pics with the compact:

[ThunderSpook]

I enjoyed the show, but the car park organisation was absolutely piss poor and the catering was a joke.

Being let down by one catering company is not an excuse for how little catering they had.

It wouldn't surprise me either if there were serious questions asked by the council on wether the air show would be allowed next year because of the chaos it caused on the roads. The only reason for it was the parking attendants were too slow and didn't know what they were doing.

Tickets were all in advance so they knew how many people were coming, there is no excuse.

[miniman]

The exit traffic wasn't helped by the number of people who were parked up in the surrounding area (right behind the crowd line) merging in with ticket holders - a Vulcan-only issue I suspect. I believe it was the first show there but as you say, the catering was non-existant and the kids doing the carpark management were about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Ultimately they needed to be confident enough to yell at the idiots who barged their way into the queues slowing it down for everyone.

[aeropilot]

miniman said:

Diverted home after Goodwood due to technical issue. Bugger.

It never did Goodwood either, diverted home after it's Beachy Head photo sortie. It could be seen in the distance away to the east of Goodwood, circling around but then could be seen heading away north only a few minutes before it was due to run in for it's display.