Dawlish Airshow 2010

[BeanieMan]

Hi all,

Just to let you all know that our brand new website has gone live today!

http://www.dawlishairshow.co.uk/

Many thanks to Karl Drage & the Global Aviation Resource team for their help with the site and for their article published today.
http://www.globalaviationresource.com/reports/2010/dawlishlaunch.php

Cheers for now,
Morley

Dawlish Airshow

[Lomcevak26]

Top stuff Morley (and Karl!)

To anybody who's yet to sample Dawlish: you've got to go this year!

[^^Gord^^]

Good work Karl and the rest of the GAR guys!

Hope Dawlish gets the funding it deserves this year Morley!

[PeterR]

Had an amazing time last year, money well spent in my view! Please donation to keep this amazing show going and give them chance to get more displays!

[Domvickery]

Im hoping to break my dawlish virginity this year!

[MerlinJon]

Any news on what will be participating this year?

[TYPHOON3]

Any news on what will be participating this year?

I know there will be no typhoon according to the typhoon display calendar so no fast jets at all ? I know its a show that relies on donations but vulcan/red arrows aside i thought last year was poor compared to previous years and i know the weather partly caused this.I am not saying there has to be fast jets but they do liven up a show and give that wow factor. Good luck to the organisers in lineing some good participation up! So far reds and bbmf only lined up last time i looked at website.

[mav]

I received the first Newsletter this morning as a friend of the Dawlish Air Show, I'm surprised they only reached 200 members so far because every penny of the £10 you donate goes towards funding the Air show and for your tenner you get a great limited addition enamelled badge, advance information on the Air Show and by the way the newsletter also confirms the King Air flying and Merlin static. In addition to the badge you also get a certificate of membership. Friends Of Dawlish Air Show aim to get 1000 members and raise £8000 so anyone looking to support should send your application fee and form which can be downloaded from http://www.dawlishairshow.co.uk/friendsof.php

[Seamus]

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet....

Link to Flightline UK

Seems it's not just the struggle for donations and sponsorship that could cancel this years show, fingers crossed they get the volunteers they need.

[seahawk67]

I received the first Newsletter this morning as a friend of the Dawlish Air Show, I'm surprised they only reached 200 members so far because every penny of the £10 you donate goes towards funding the Air show and for your tenner you get a great limited addition enamelled badge, advance information on the Air Show and by the way the newsletter also confirms the King Air flying and Merlin static. In addition to the badge you also get a certificate of membership. Friends Of Dawlish Air Show aim to get 1000 members and raise £8000 so anyone looking to support should send your application fee and form which can be downloaded from http://www.dawlishairshow.co.uk/friendsof.php

i`ve just come back from a hot devon i also have my newsletter i still cant believe that in the crowd of 100,000+ their must be at least 1000 aviation photographers who would join this to help keep this great airshow going ?

[gooner]

Sadly the trouble is people want these shows to continue but will not donate to help it remain and then if its lost which for you guys i hope it does not happen people miss it.Good luck hope it continues sadly its too far for me to travel down.

[seahawk67]

Any updates to weather the show will still go ahead still looking forward to it if it does was great show last year

andy

[trebleone]

It's sad that so many people seem to want something for nothing and aren't prepared to put their hands in their pockets to help support what must surely be the best venue for a seaside airshow. If you enjoy it, cough up ..... or it ain't gonna happen

[SOMERSET SKYHAWK]

It's sad that so many people seem to want something for nothing and aren't prepared to put their hands in their pockets to help support what must surely be the best venue for a seaside airshow. If you enjoy it, cough up ..... or it ain't gonna happen

Yes trebleone.
But If everyone of the Friends Of Dawlish Air Show donate an extra £40 could get £8000 for the show now.

[SOMERSET SKYHAWK]

Just had this Message from facebook.
From Tracy Cook

A meeting was held on 30/6/2010 at The Manor in Dawlish to discuss with residents and businesses what needs to be done to ensure the airshow goes ahead this year and maintains the standard our audience have become used to. Effectively around £10,000 needs to be found in the next fortnight to allow the show to go ahead and ensure a good line up. Several local businessmen were present with cheques that will go some way towards this total but every penny counts. As fans of Dawlish Airshow you can help in one of the following ways.

1) Become a Friend of Dawlish Airshow - see http://www.dawlishairshow.co.uk/friendsof.php for information and an application form. Every penny in profit goes directly to the airshow. If you are already a member do you know anyone else who might be interested? If you do please tell them about the scheme and point them in the direction of the website. If we can reach the target of 1000 members we will have raised £8000.

2) Make a donation - however large or small we appreciate every penny. If you are in Dawlish you can pay in a cheque, payable to Dawlish Airshow, to Lloyds bank, or hand them to staff at Swiftprint, Dawlish Taxis or Dawlish Town Council. Many people at the meeting pointed out they wished to make a donation but didn't know how to go about it, hopefully this helps. If you are not local and wish to send a cheque please message me and we can organise that. Of course you can also donate on the day, but right now to secure this years show we need as many advance donations as possible, funds raised on the day will go towards next year's show.

3) Donate your time - it's not just cash but also volunteers we need. Due to a change made by the police we need more people than ever this year to assist with marshalling. Training will be provided. If you would like to get involved please email info@dawlishairshow.co.uk with your contact details. We would also appreciate volunteers to help with collecting money on the day of the show. It doesn't need to be for the whole day, even an hour of your time would make a difference. Again, should you wish to be involved in this way drop us an email.

Many of you have probably done one or more of the above, so to you a big thank you. One of the main things to come from tonights meeting is the strength of feeling a lot of people have about the show and hopefully the positive mood tonight will gain momentum and with a concerted push we can make this year's show great.

Hope to see you all enjoying yourselves in Dawlish in August,
Tracy

sent to me on my facebook.

[absolutangel]

Thanks for posting that Skyhawk, I was planning on coming on here too but was knackered last night, and as Karl has pointed out I missed out that you can donate via the airshow website, clearly suffering from brain being awol! The web linky for online donations - http://www.dawlishairshow.co.uk/donations.php

Just a bit more info for you guys about what was covered last night and some good news...

I have been told that in donations from local business people, residents and new Friends Members the meeting raised around £2000, making a nice dent in the £10,000 we really need to go ahead with the show.

However it was very disappointing to hear that until last night only 250 memberships for the FoDA had been sold. A few more were added last night but we're still a long way from the 1000 target. For every membership we sell now the entire £10 goes to the airshow (costs are now fully covered) So this is a plea to any of you who have enjoyed the show, are planning on coming this year and want to see the show continue - if you haven't already done so please please join! A brief reminder, you get a certificate, enamel badge (pretty smart I think) newsletter and chance to win tickets for the sponsors and special guests reception.

If we can raise the remaining amount before mid July we will be able to put on a show that will hopefully either match or exceed expectations. The plan is that to avoid being in the same position next year we will be approaching collections on the day in a more focused and organised way than before, so we don’t have a repeat of last years low level of donations. This year the cost of the park and ride will be higher but will include a copy of the programme. There were approximately 1000 cars using the facility last year, so this should generate around £3000 less printing costs (minimal because of the amazing support we get from Swiftprint!) Hopefully with a few tweaks and more volunteers helping us we should be in a position where money collected on the day will go a long way to covering the cost of the next years show, making Kev’s life a lot less stressful and letting us plan on the basis of what funds we have rather than what we would like to raise. We have so many acts approaching us to appear every year, the show is only constrained by funding.

I think one of the key points made last night was that we shouldn’t expect a handful of people to put in a lot of money, if everyone with an interest in seeing the show continue gave £1 we’d be a lot closer to the total. So, while for a lot of us £10 for membership is nothing for others it may not be affordable, however if you could give £5 or £1, or whatever sum you might be able to afford we CAN get the money together. What is important right now is getting donations in advance (before mid July) to secure this year’s show, donations on the day (assuming we meet the target) will be going towards next year.

Right, I think I have gone on enough for now, maybe people who have already helped could wrack their brains for people they know who might be interested in joining the Friends scheme and email them the link, the more we can get the word out the better. Will keep you updated as and when I get more news.

[Seamus]

An update has been posted today on the Dawlish Air Show Website

It's just six weeks and one day till Dawlish Air Show 2010, so it's high time that I provided all of you, our loyal followers, with another update.

First of all, I'm delighted to report that we are now able to confirm that the show WILL take place. There had been genuine doubts about that due to the bombshell that was dropped on us regarding traffic management for the event, but thanks to many people coming forward and offering their services, we are now confident that we can meet the requirements that have been imposed upon us. That said, if anyone else would like to volunteer their services there are plenty of jobs that they could help with!

As you may have read recently on Facebook and some of the aviation forums, we are still struggling to find the levels of funding required to assemble the kind of line-up that we've become accustomed to in recent years. In fact, we're a good £8000 short of where we need to be in order to deliver anything close to that, and we're still without a headline sponsor for the event.

If you can afford to make a donation, no matter how big or small, there are a number of ways that you can do this. In addition to being able to donate on the website you can also make out cheques made payable to "Dawlish Air Show" and hand them in at Lloyds Bank in the town, or hand them to staff at Swiftprint, Dawlish Taxis or Dawlish Town Council. For those of you 'out of town' and wanting to pay by cheque, if you send a message to info@dawlishairshow.co.uk you'll be provided with the address to send it to.

Think of it this way, if every single person planning to attend the show gave just £1 we'd be sitting pretty and in a position where we could put on a really impressive display for everyone - the budget would be far bigger than for any of those shows that have gone before. The ball really is in your court! If you want to see the participation list grow significantly in the run up to the show it is going to require you to put your hand in your pocket, and the sooner you can do so the better - any funds collected on the day of the show itself will be used to fund the 2011 event.

A really good way of supporting the show is to become a 'Friend'. At the last count we still had in excess of 700 membership packs left available. At just £10 each, if we could sell all of them we'd obviously have almost reached that £8000 target! More details can be found here: http://www.dawlishairshow.co.uk/friendsof.php

I have to say, looking through the list of those who have joined the scheme and those that have donated separately, that it's extremely disappointing to see so few enthusiasts' names appearing. Given the way the show's run to provide the maximum number of (almost unique) photographic opportunities, I think that's a pretty sorry state of affairs, if I'm being completely honest…. Maybe it's the case that people are waiting to see what's confirmed before they donate? Sadly, as it says above, we can't afford to book display acts that we're unable to pay for, so it's a real chicken and egg situation. Hopefully the confirmation that the show will take place might spur some of you into action.

It's not all bad news however. I'm delighted to announce that once again our friends at the Search and Rescue Training Unit (SARTU) at RAF Valley have very kindly agreed to provide a Griffin helicopter for static display at Dawlish Warren. Subject to serviceability it's hoped to be one of the grey examples more typically found plying their trade at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus with 84 Sqn.

Please dig deep.

Best wishes,
Kevin Wills,
Event Organiser,

Good to see that the show is definitely going ahead- hopefully that will encourage more people to donate now. My donation will be on it's way shortly

[pgosling]

Just read this on the local news website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/10591206.stm

Hoping it does go ahead as am planning to make a first visit to Dawlish this year with the family.

[absolutangel]

As per the update on the website - posted above - the show is going ahead, however to date we haven't raised the sort of money we really need to put on a show that's quite up to the usual Dawlish standard. Keep an eye on the website and the FB group, things move swiftly this close to the event and hopefully if ours pleas aren't falling on deaf ears we'll have more participants to announce! Every year we get so many offers of participation but can only book what we can afford. The long term future of the show is definitely dependant on this year, so to anyone who attends and wants to see the show continue please donate on the day (all donations prior to this years show are funding 2010)

[absolutangel]

Hi all, sorry but it's me again. You may have already seen on the website or FB group that we have now confirmed the Hawk T.1 - 208(R) Sqn/4 FTS and the Sea King HU.5 SAR - 771 NAS, the line up is growing slowly but surely!

Kev told me earlier today that in the past week or so we have sold another 150 memberships for Friends of Dawlish Airshow, which is good news and a decent boost to the coffers. However he did point out most of those members are locals, and that there is still a disappointing turnout among the enthusiasts. Given the amount of positive comments the show gets on forums like this it is a shame that it appears the people who enjoy it the most are a little hesitant in supporting the show. Obviously there are some enthusiasts who have joined and who have been actively helping promote the scheme, and others who have donated, to you thank you, thank you and thank you again! To those who haven't, we can't keep the show going on an average donation of less than 1p per spectator, yes, in the past we have always had a bit of an uphill battle with funding but this year truly is make or break, so please help us make it and keep the show going. The lovely gang at Squadron Prints are giving us a hand, and if you are at RIAT this weekend they will have Friends of Dawlish Airshow leaflets available (they have a stand inside the FRIAT enclosure as well as their usual stand on Sat and Sun) for you to fill out and send to join. If you are there, have a great time (she says jealously, as she'll be sat at home, babies and Kempsford not being a great mix)

[raymacca10]

BEST OF BRITISH TO OUR FRIENDS ALONG THE COAST FROM ALL AT PLYMOUTH AIRSHOW! HOPE YOU REACH THE SKY AND SECURE THE SHOW

[stef78]

Hi all,

There is a new addition :
RAF Sea King HAR3 from Chivenor on static display at Dawlish Warren

I plan to be on the Hill near the Smugglers Inn on the morning to see the arrivals (Merlin,...), but I would want to see this RAF Sea King at landing or take-off as well, at Dawlish Warren !!
Is it possible to travel easily between the 2 sites during the day ? Maybe I could see it on departure the evening...

Thanks in advance for the answer

Stephane
From France

[RickIngham]

Just a summary of whats expected:
Dawlish Warren: Griffin - SARTU (It is hoped that this will be a grey 84 Sqn example), Sea King HAR.3
Smugglers Inn: Merlin, Sea King HU.5 SAR
Displaying : The Red Arrows, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, King Air, Hawk T.1, Sea King HU.5 SAR, Dash 8-300 - Air Southwest, Tutor T.1

Would be superb if the Dash 8 can stay low enough to get some sea - it's got some great colours on it

Taken from http://www.dawlishairshow.co.uk

[seahawk67]

will we get to see the helicopters from dawlish warren at the hill ? like last year?

show looking good i will be their again this year

andy

[absolutangel]

Stephane, You might want to avoid travelling between the two sites by car, but you could consider hopping on a train to Dawlish Warren. It's only 1 stop and takes a couple of minutes. Depends whether you fancy a bit of walking to and from the stations, which will add a chunk of time (and if you're planning on going back up to the hill means a bit of a hike back up) Extra rail services are laid on during the day but you will find as it gets closer to the start of the display and around the end they will be pretty packed. Otherwise you could try getting a bus, if it's an option you really want some more info on let me know and I'll try and find a timetable etc for you.

Andy, I don't know what you have and haven't been able to see from the hill, I'm usually busy running round like a blue arsed fly down on the sea front but I'm kind of hoping I might make it up to the Smugglers and get to stay there this year.

Thanks Ray, I'm sure Kev will see this thread and will appreciate your message very much.