Southend Airshow

[tank slapper]

Anyone going to Southend airshow which is on this weekend, Sunday and Monday? It is free and usually pretty well attended.

I'm going to be there, but watching from the water rather than on land.

Edit: Further details: http://www.southendairshow.com/

Edited by tank slapper on Thursday 21st May 21:57

[B16JUS]

same here fantastic tide, monday HW is 2.00 we can get out 2.5 hours either side of HW so will see all or nearly all the airshow.

[tank slapper]

Not quite sure what we are going to be doing yet, but probably sail down from the Blackwater on saturday evening, watch the show on sunday and sail back on monday.

[anonymous-user]

I'm taking a trip down there today.

News earlier this week was both the B25 and Apache had cancelled.


It is a quite truncated display this year, I think the casino pulling out of the sponsorship and the RAF cutting back on displays, i.e Harrier pulling out of all shows and the Tucano pilot being out of action due to the crash the other month, has hit it badly.

I usually go to the airport but most of the aircraft are operating from elsewhere. Typhoons and Reds from Manston, and the classic jets, Gnats and Vampire from North Weald.

[anonymous-user]

Laindon & Basildon stations have queues down the road just to buy tickets. I have come home and am not bothering going. It is going to be hell down Southend.

[zetec]

Hell, my thoughts exactly, decided to give the show a miss as the great weather would've bought out all that is bad about Southend.

Decided to take a drive to Canvey at 3ish, managed to park up ok and watched the Red Arrows, allbeit from a distance lol!

[anonymous-user]

Was staying at Leigh on Sea Saturday, courtesy of my daughters boyfriend who lives there. We walked down to watch the show yesterday from the beach and got a good view. Great fun watching the Red Arrows buzzing over the town and being deafened by whatever the delta winged plane was at the end of the show. Best bit for me though was the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Never tire of watching Spitfires, I think they're the most beautiful piston engined aircraft ever made. Anyone going today?, the weather may be not so good apparently.

[anonymous-user]

Weather was good up until the last hour, when it got quite dark. There was a storm down Shoeburyness way, you oculd see the lightning.

[muppetdave]

I had a good time there Sunday, although as someone said, it did illustrate all that's bad about Southend!! I just hid right by the water with my camera and got on with it - Mrs and her mates got fed up and found a pub inn town to hide in - result!!

[Seasider]

zetec said:

decided to give the show a miss as the great weather would've bought out all that is bad about Southend.

muppetdave said:

although as someone said, it did illustrate all that's bad about Southend!! I just hid right by the water with my camera and got on with it

Pray tell guys ?

One of the things i'm thinking is the mass influx idiots ..... (not putting you in that category )

[tank slapper]

I was there on Sunday, watching from offshore. The good weather was nice, though I'm glad the sun was behind us. The rain came on monday as we were sailing home.

It was a disapointingly short display this year, noticably fewer aircraft than in previous years.

Here are a few photos I took:




















And as we were making our way past Maplin sands, we were overtaken by MTB102 probably heading towards Lowestoft:

[B16JUS]

it was good on sunday apart from some tt in a rib ripping it up through all the little gaps between boats causing massive wakes

we all got sunburnt had a little swim in the thames lol

[Eric Mc]

If you look carefully at the Spitfre, you will see that it is the colours of 303 (Polish) Squadron and shows the personal mount of Jan Zumbach. The infamous BNP poster showing the Spitfire shows a picture of the original aircraft back in 1942.

[anonymous-user]

Thanks for posting the pics Tankslapper, great stuff.