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[Fred Elliot]

hmmmmmmmmm

4.5 hours to get to Hereford

1.5 hours to get back

it was the poor fuckers that were still sat on the 419 at Blunsdon at 11.30 going fucking no where when they had forked out decent money for a ticket that I felt really sorry for.

Tempers where becoming a little frayed shall we say

[Bennett]

that's insane!
i don't understand why people would drive to somewhere like fairford when they do a very decent bus service from the bus station for a fiver there and back, and only takes about half an hour!

[Fred Elliot]

I know this may sound a little bizarre mate but I dont think that RIAT is exclusively open to the residents of Swindon alone.

It just may be that people came from further afield and didnt have a scooby about bus services and indeed where the fuck Swindon Bus Staion was if they did

Love

Fred x

[Batch]

They mention it (the bus) in the ticket literature. And it was an all ticket event. I drove. Got there early (took about 45 minutes , arrived at , left there late (took about 40 minutes, left at 7:15).

Queuing back to the M4 is taking the piss.  I know it was a sellout on Saturday but I thought the point about it being all ticket was to prevent this.

[Bennett]

I know this may sound a little bizarre mate but I dont think that RIAT is exclusively open to the residents of Swindon alone.

It just may be that people came from further afield and didnt have a scooby about bus services and indeed where the fuck Swindon Bus Staion was if they did

Love

Fred x

mentioned in ticket literature and presumably there are parking facilities near the bus station?

much love

andy

[ronnie21]

mentioned in ticket literature and presumably there are parking facilities near the bus station?

much love

andy

Guess they could have opened up the old park and ride for the weekend, it's only a short step off the A419!  Oh, and if you were travelling down the A419 in the full knowledge that RIAT was taking place and you were not actually going there, I think I might have found an alternative route, like Swindon/Malmesbury/Cirencester!

[Fred Elliot]

I left later Ronnie, thinking that most of the people would be in the fucking place by 11 - 11.30

Oh how wrong I was !!!

[donkey]

Should arrive by plane.

[ronnie21]

I left later Ronnie, thinking that most of the people would be in the fucking place by 11 - 11.30

Oh how wrong I was !!!

Didn't they have the cones in place, through traffic and Fairford traffic?  Last time I went that way on Fairford weekend it seemed to work quite well for through traffic.  Obviously not this year.  But I love your puppy Fred, the little girl looks lovely, it's just the guy in the shorts that sends a shiver down my spine!

[Phil_S]

Went yesterday & traffic was no problem. Left West Swindon (picking up sister & kids) at 7.30 got in for 8.30. Left at 6.00 pm after the red arrows back for 7.00.
Got soaked, but the vulcan was well worth it.
Like many have said a bit dissapointed about all the hawks on display. Not many attention grabbers apart from the Vulcan & Typhoon. Even the Harriers didn't do a display.
Still it answered the question of wht their aren't enough choppers in Afganistan. They were all at Fairford !

[Ardiles]

I get a free pass to the Farnborough Air Show every other July - in that we can pretty much watch the whole thing from the front drive.  One of the best weekends of the year.  Last year's highlight, for me, was the A380 Airbus.  Flies so low (and, it seems, so slowly) that you almost feel you can reach out and touch it.

[Batch]

Last year's highlight, for me, was the A380 Airbus.  Flies so low (and, it seems, so slowly) that you almost feel you can reach out and touch it.

The 380 was awesome last year. Went there instead of the washed out RIAT.

Apparently yesterday Vulcan display had a bit more about it than Saturdays. Grr. But at least I stayed dry

[Jamiesfuturewife]

I saw that scary plane fly over last Friday when I went to Tesco?? I know it was that one cause it was like a triangle and Army coloured?? Its scared me cause I thought there was a war starting or something??

[Don Rogers Shop]

That's just thick

[Batch]

@ JFW.

Here is another uninteresting fact. The triangle (delta) shaped Vulcan was designed in the 1940's, first test flight in 1952 and first delivered to the RAF in 1956. By the time of the Falklands war it was being retired and they had to nick bits from here, there and everywhere (incl. museum planes) to get the electronics and fuel refuelling probe working as required.

Doesn't look too bad for a 60 year old design does it. Especially when just 5 years before the Lancaster was concidered state of the art. The same man, Roy Chadwick,  'designed' both planes, though unfortunately he died (in a plane crash) during the Vulcans development.