DanO1978 wrote:Is there a reason for cramming everything into three hours at Duxford? We wondered if it might be something they'd historically agreed with Stansted on show days? Was that why they were so keen to finish on-time yesterday, completely cancelling the P-40s slot?
Flying Legends has enough aircraft there to fill five hours, still at a decent pace. Some displays had woefully short slots. As someone said before, gaps are there for good reason.
Dan,
The display was timed for about 3.5 hrs, not 3. The P-40s were lost due to the Dr1 nose-over, one P40 called critical engine temperatures, was told to hold by Duxford Information and by the time they got back to him the P-40s had all shut down.
Yes legends has enough to fill five hours but I would question the decent pace point. Multiple aircraft take time to position and we would see "large" gaps that would turn one of the best displays in the world into just another boring left-right, next please airshow.
I would also question your previous point on several incidents related to pace. The Sea Fury problem was due to the navy aircraft arriving too early which could happen anywhere, the Skyraider coming in too low was also some thing that has happened at other events and Stephen Grey's landing options were based on feeding him in during the Balbo with the risk of an overshoot accepted every time i.e. take a look, see if it fits and if it doesn't then overshoot. At all times he was in communication with both the ground and Balbo lead.