Cosford Airshow 12th June

[Whitefly Swatter]

Anyone any experience of this one

I might go if I get some good reports

Bob

[Eric Mc]

Great museum on the site.

[Whitefly Swatter]

Eric Mc said:

Great museum on the site.

Yeh I know I have been meaning to get down to see my favorite aircraft (TSR 2) for some time

[sawman]

It was a great show last year, i used to live in the next village and spent the day on my drive cleaning the cars and watching the airshow last year. The planes where turning between runs pretty much overhead.

As Eric said the attached air museum is pretty good. James Mays life size airfix kit was there for while as he made it there. Not sure if it still is though as it looked a bit weatherbeaten last time I was there

[Eric Mc]

It was still there last November but looking a little forlorn.

[NismoGT]

The Spitfire is still there.

I went last year , great show.

As far as i remember these displayed :

The Yakovlevs
The Blades
RAF Solo Hawk
Red Devils
Red Arrows
EF Typhoon
Tornado GR4
F-86 Sabre and Hawker Hunter
RN Black Cats
WW1 Bi-planes
BBMF
Harrier GR-9
Army Lynx and Apache
Chinook

List looks the same for this year so far. Hopefully XH558 will make it.

Get the train if you can , Cosford has a small two lane road to the main base. Tailbacks last year were horrific.

Also get there early. Base capacity is 50.000. Elf'n'safety turned away ticket holders in 2009.

Edited by NismoGT on Thursday 5th May 17:31

[Eric Mc]

I bet there's no Harrier on display.

[anonymous-user]

Chinny is only doing four shows this year, and Cosford isn't one of them.

[NismoGT]

Indeed. Should have written "Similar" .

[IanMorewood]

Went to the museum last week and will definitely consider the show this year little lad is 4 years old now so just starting to get interested in planes.

[spitfire-ian]

XH558 is confirmed. Obviously subject to the usual weather and serviceability conditions.

[CobolMan]

Persuaded Mrs C to go, subject to me not being on call.

[kiteless]

According to Mrs k (part of ATC at Cosford), the only displays confirmed so far are Vulcan, BBMF, Arrows.

[PaulV]

Other than getting there early, are there any tips on where is best to watch from etc?

Thanks

[D4VE 3LL]

PaulV said:

Other than getting there early, are there any tips on where is best to watch from etc?

Thanks

Depends if you're bothered about watching/photographing. Photography is rubbish in the show due to shooting into the sun all day. Head out of the show and towards the cricket club for the sun behind you.

[speedchick]

Son has just come back from Air Cadets with borrowed 'working blues' so he can go on Sunday, and he is rather looking forward to it.

[kiteless]

For information, all of the historic jets (Vulcan / Meteor / Vampire) are displaying from 16:00 onwards. So, as Dave suggests, if you want to take pics & vids of those then walk as far away from the rail line as possible to avoid glare.

[NismoGT]

Can anybody point me toward some information regarding Saturday practice runs? Sure XH558 did it in 2009 the day before the airshow.

Any info about activity regarding air traffic at RAF Shawbury over the weekend would be great too.

[jonny142]

Sorry to go off topic slightly.. heard on Uk Airshow review that the Vulcan's landing at Kemble after displaying at Cosford, ready for the week after display ..

[kiteless]

NismoGT said:

Can anybody point me toward some information regarding Saturday practice runs? Sure XH558 did it in 2009 the day before the airshow.

Any info about activity regarding air traffic at RAF Shawbury over the weekend would be great too.

Saturday is going to fairly quiet.

The Chinook is arriving, as are the JP's. The Black Cats also, and may do a practice demo. The Hawk may do a practice run. I'm not heading there on Saturday for the first time in a few years as it's so quiet.

Taken on Saturdays from previous years:

Harrier Landing

Vulcan Practice

Hurricane Low Pass