Minehead Summer Festival

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Minehead Summer Festival

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14th August

Displays include:
RAF Tucano
RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Red Devils Parachute Display Team
Hunter Fast Jet Display
Breitling Wing Walkers
The RV8tors

http://www.visitsomerset.co.uk/things-to-do/whats-on/minehead-summer-festival-p1232433

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Park & Ride from Bishops Lydeyard & travel on the West Somerset Railway (mostly steam-hauled that day).

There's very little info around for this event, but I've managed to find some basic timings, which may or may not be accurate:

11:00 - Market stalls open
12:00 - Flying starts as a Sea King helicopter lands on the seafront at Warren Road upper car park
12:15 - Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
13:00 - Red Arrows
14:00 - Red Devils parachute team to close the aerial part of the event

I can't find any timings for the other items mentioned above, i.e. Tucano, Hunter, Wing Walkers and RV8tors

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that's what it said on a couple of pages I have looked at but thanks.

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Raining at the moment.

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Dull, grey and overcast with occasional light drizzle, but several thousand people lined the sea-front.

BBMF cancelled due to weather.

PA announced Reds 13:30, then later announced 13:45, then postponed to 14:30 due to weather ... then again to 14:50 ... then cancelled due to 700ft cloudbase. The crowds dispersed and everyone left.

Minehead Summer Festival Air Show thus comprised: a couple of fly-pasts by an RAF SAR SeaKing and the arrival of Red 10 in the Squirrel. With a couple of exceptions, the sea-front 'market stalls' were all charity stalls. All in all, very much a non-event.

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Tilney.G wrote:A real shame, the organisers put a lot of effort into making it a great show and then it gets ruined by the weather. Hope that next year the weather is on their side :smile:


Did the Hunter and Tucano get cancelled?
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I take that the Hunter, Tucano and Rv8tors were cancelled then
They were there... in 2012 :grin:

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Ah right! Wouldn't have been there then! :grin:
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