Midlands Air Festival 2019

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Midlands Air Festival 2019

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http://www.midlandsairfestival.com/

17-19th May at a new venue (pity, as I could actually walk from home to last years venue, Ragley), no participation info yet
If you like these pics there are more utterly brilliant shots at https://www.flickr.com/photos/131094099@N08/albums
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Not as close as you but 15 minutes journey last year, so not quite so easy for the 6 a.m. balloon lift this time. It does look relatively close to a lot of built-up areas, not ideal for the balloonists in particular I would have thought, but I guess they were consulted, and they do seem to fly in and around Bristol a lot so hopefully all good.

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Tickets now available for this event.

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Mul wrote:Tickets now available for this event.


£25 for early bird prices is quite a price considering what will be on display. Cosford looks much better value for the Midlands punters.

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Fournier RF-4 confirmed.

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Yak-3UM & Catalina confirmed.

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Two more displays have been announced, Brendan O'Brien in the Cub for the night display and Team Raven for the Saturday and Sunday.

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Wasp HAS.1 'XT787' confirmed. :up:

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[tweet]http://twitter.com/midlandsairfest/status/1101943833816940544[/tweet]

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Strikemaster Pair confirmed. :up:

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[tweet]https://twitter.com/midlandsairfest/status/1107022109551800320[/tweet]

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Another addition:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/midlandsairfest/status/1107392051216371713[/tweet]

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Looked this one up as I'm not far away... Going to try the Friday evening for all the novelty that goes with luminous parachutists and fireworks. For my daughter's benefit, of course. :up: :smile:
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P-51D Mustang the one with the sharks mouth added to the line up.

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Airspace for this event is very close too Birminghams,
Will be intresting.

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[tweet]https://twitter.com/midlandsairfest/status/1120066589729202176[/tweet]

:clap:

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The lineups looking good. Doing Shuttleworth on the Saturday and this on the Sunday

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+ Gnat :up:
The sooner the world runs out of cotton wool the better

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Looks a very good line up. Add in the mass hot airballoons. Should be a good weekend.

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Yak-3 has had to cancel this weekend due to a technical fault.

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https://global.adsbexchange.com/VirtualRadar/desktop.html is showing G-OFIX as currently displaying.

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According to https://www.facebook.com/navyrotors/ XT787 (Westland Wasp) is displaying at 3pm on Sat and Sun.

Does anyone have a copy of the schedule they could share?

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According to the Strikemaster Facebook page, only the Mk3 will be displaying, the other pilot is ill.

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Believe that's a JP Mk. 3, not a Strikemaster.

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Abbo46 wrote:Believe that's a JP Mk. 3, not a Strikemaster.


Thank you, I did think the Strikemaster variant numbers were a bit higher than that.

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