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Not really wanting to shell out £80 for 2 tickets so was just wondering if anyone knew of any good locations where you watch for free or if any farmers opening up a field for a small fee etc?

Ask 4D.

You can usually watch it from atop that hill at blunsdon.

Never been myself, but I imagine somewhere like Lechlade would be a good spot.

Most roads in the vicinity of the airfield get closed. You could try parking up somewhere like South Cerney or Lechlade.

A beer garden in blunsdon would be better.

I've got freebies tickets so hoping the weather improves

I've got a paid for ticket, either day. Hoping the weather improves.

same, i won the a pair in the adver comp. shame i won't bother going as the cloud will be too low

Ah u madman bennett,u gotta go its brilliant

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Well if somebody doesent want their free tickets please pm me

the goldfinger pub in highworth looks right across it, its a superb view, also whilst
driving to get my kebab i had the pleasure of the stealth plane fly over me at the rugby club half hour ago :toocool:

Bugger, wanted to see the B2 in the air. Batplane.

Wasn't that stealthy then

Can recommend www.totterdownhillcampsite.co.uk at £5 per person. Sorry not a direct link.

Yeah live round the corner from there and can see the entire airfield from my house.

We're fortunate enough to see the airbase from our bedroom window, but nothing beats being there as they rarely fly directly over the town.

Presume the Red Arrows are flying? Wondered what they they were doing at B'mth airport midweek. Now if there's one thing that makes me proud to be British.....................................

Yup, they are. Lets hope the reds have a better year than last year.

When do the Red Arrows do their fly over the Military College in Watchfield?

Indeed Batch, believe they are only flying as a seven at B'mth this year. Such a sad year. The ultimate of their profession

Éclat as the motto says.

The tin triangle hasn't made it to Fairford yet. Technical hitch. Hope its not engine related, they only just changed 2 engines after the old ones ingested a silicon gel pack and blew up.

You get a pretty good view from Lus Hill, near Hannington. Whelford and near Marston Meysey have very good views too. They don't normally close the roads, they just turn it into a one way system.

There's only one thing better than the Red Arrows...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu21rM9ahkY

...and that's the Red Arrows and Concorde. In your face rest of the world!

But there is more chance of seeing this sometime OST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqsqxgbGftk&feature=related

That is very nice indeed. I saw the Vulcan a few times as a kid at Greenham Common when they used to have the air show there. This is another of my favourites, still going strong after 70 years. Amazing, nothing like seeing it 'in the flesh' of course...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2Ejnca_xM

And this - not British but still makes the old hairs on the back of the neck stand up...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVSMxVKXa0M

We saw quite a few of the aircraft from the Grand Peace Fete at Coleshill.

The irony was noted. :)

Those plains are indeed ace OST.

Technology really sped up after the war.  First Lancaster test flight : January 1941 Vulcan 1st test Flight : August 1952. 11 years. I think I have 11 year old socks.

Vulcan was as good as ever (pity it didn't take off - will do on Sunday), Lancaster/Spitfire made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, other displays restricted by low cloud, fast loud jets were brilliant but for me the stand outs were the helicopter pilots - just mental.

Met some old colleagues from RIAT and didn't get too wet so had a great day.

Good stuff Bewster.

Vulcan should have arrived Friday, but technical hit meant it got delayed. They had to do a display validation flight at Farnborough before allowed to display at Fairford. They did validation and flew straight to display after.

Saw the Reds and I think the Spit fly over the back garden. They don't usually come out this way. Hope tomorrow is mainly dry.

Took this


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Nice Pic. Did you photoshop the weird blue stuff between the clouds?

 ;D no thats the genuine clould line. Best photo I took all day - trying out new camera and I've discover its easier to take picures of slow/static things  ;)

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Gorgeous.

Any crashes yet?

Out here, we sometimes get the Vulcan booked for the White Horse Show (big country show). It really is a sight to behold.

There's also a bloke near Abingdon who owns a few WWII aircraft and flies them out this way. It made me doubletake when I first saw a Spitfire and ME109 over the village!

Arrows and the Lancaster/Spitfire/Hurricane flew over my dad's place while I was round there yesterday, sounded so good!

My uncle was a navigator in a Vulcan, his house was always full of models and paintings of them. Love them.

i have two tickets to give away, but the downside is i'm leaving on the 10:00 bus, so you'll have to contact me before then...

Should be Thursday about 1pm

I have just picked my sister from the bus station after she went today & she looks like Zoiberg from futrarama

Someones sliced her top lip?

She's got a fake doctorate and is wearing a white overcoat?

Both of the above is true of her & she is a nice shade of lobster. ( Her doctorate is in travel & tourism so must be fake )

Does she do the whoop whoop thing?

dude, that's not something you ask a family member about...

I think that says more about Fola than anything else, he must have a different kind of relationship with his sister.  Maybe he lives in Oxford.

I don't have a sister.  :)

She's just your lover, huh? Whatever makes it easier :D

The Vulcan flew low over the Melksham area today around mid morning, something was flying a few seconds before it but I was to slow to get outside to see what it was, Glad I saw the Vulcan though, well impressed.

They did a transit to Farnborough today, did the plane it was with sound like a prop plane? If so it was

http://www.theblades.com/

If it sounded more Jet like it was this:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/

They did a Farnborough flypast with the Reds as an opening :) Formed up over Frome.

Landed at Farnboro' at 11:22.

The Vulcan flew over Silverstone on Saturday as well, that was pretty cool.

To be honest Batch it could of been either of those but am now disappointed I didn't get outside quick enough to see what was before the Vulcan. I did see a couple of Spitfires messing about over Cribbs this weekend but not sure if they were connected to the Fairford show, probably. About a hour after that what looked like an Airbus came really low before pulling up and banking sharply away, being close to Filton perhaps they were testing one?

I'm very sure I saw the red arrows or some other formation of jets pass across Stroud earlier on. I don't know much about them so one of you lot can probably piece together what they were.

What colour were they?

I don't know, it was a quick glance. There were about 5/6 of them, went past very quick. And before you say whoosh I see what you did there.

Wasnt There a Korean team at Fairford this year similar in numbers to the Red Arrows?

No idea. They had wings if that helps.

Just had a look and if it wasn't the Red Arrows it was probably the South Korean Black Eagles. Black and white in colour with splashes of Yellow. Apparently they were dismantled in Korea, flown to Manchester and rebuilt at RAF Leeming for the show.

Quite surreal to think that South Korean jets flew over little ol' Stroud.

Could be wrong as after checking ( again )it seems there was 7 display teams on show. Let's stick with the Korean Black Eagles over Stroud though as it sounds pretty impressive :)

They could have at least bombed Cashes Green.

Black eagles, or Brietling Jet Display team, or the Jordanian eagles, or the UAE Al Fursan, or the Reds.

Happy to help :)

As a boy I used to watch the Red Arrows practising when they were based at Kemble. Used to see them flying over Aston Down, Minch and Chalford.

Remember that as a nipper living in Michinhampton. Saw them do the thing with concord on more than one occasion during their time at Kemble

My dad was stationed at Little Rissington then Kemble until he fucked off.  Part of his  job was painting and stickering up aircraft, presumably the arrows were included in that.

I do vaguely recall sitting in a red arrow* on an RAF Kemble family day, but I was only about 3 so it its a bit hazy. That pretty much makes me a pilot.

* to be honest, it could have been a mock up, but I like to think not.

Ooooh can you still get in the posh lounge of you have a Brietling watch?

You did well, 33 is hazy as fuck for me

Yes

Yes.

I didn't find the Accurist communal deck chair though.

And you are only 34....

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I'm older than that, I'm 37. (Just checked with the misses)