Airshow 2019

[Normal]

A few photos from todays air show.

Those photos are incredible. What camera/lens did you use?

[Ceam]

Those photos are incredible. What camera/lens did you use?

It's a Cannon 60D, with an EF 100-400L IS zoom lens.


Camera is showing it's age a little but the lens is incredible.

[seivad]

It is admirable but a bit too oriented to military aircraft.

I would be very excited to see something like an A380 or a 747 make a low pass across the crowd. You could even sell seats on the aircraft.

Why not?

I think that Air France Flight 296 at the Habsheim Air Show might put some people off!

[grassroots]

I'm sure a lot of people get a lot of enjoyment out of the show , and local businesses must get a spin off . I personally have no interest but live and let live eh .

[Alikado]

I'm sure a lot of people get a lot of enjoyment out of the show , and local businesses must get a spin off . I personally have no interest but live and let live eh .

Local Businesses also lose out, some people avoid town when events are on also with a charge for the event people are tied to the site so don't actually spend any time or money in the town centre it is all spent with the outside caterers etc.
With all the 'Fossil Fuels' debate Airshows are becoming a thing of the past the same as Circus's with animals.

[salus.populi]

Local Businesses also lose out, some people avoid town when events are on also with a charge for the event people are tied to the site so don't actually spend any time or money in the town centre it is all spent with the outside caterers etc.
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Are you sure about that?
It looked like there was a pass out system in operation allowing ticket holders to leave the site and return later.

[Alikado]

Are you sure about that?
It looked like there was a pass out system in operation allowing ticket holders to leave the site and return later.

It has been a complaint in previous years, also having the entrance charge deters families from parking in town and visiting the airshow with the kids for a while whilst the shopping gets done.

[salus.populi]

It has been a complaint in previous years, also having the entrance charge deters families from parking in town and visiting the airshow with the kids for a while whilst the shopping gets done.

Plenty vantage points to watch it free of charge.

[Ceam]

It has been a complaint in previous years, also having the entrance charge deters families from parking in town and visiting the airshow with the kids for a while whilst the shopping gets done.

Straws... clutching at...

[Penfold]

A few I took

[silver fox]

This thing needs to be axed. It's a case of same old, same old every year.
They can't get the Red Arrows anymore because they either cost too much or they just don't want to come.
The public get overcharged for parking and entrance too. It should be free.

Of course the flower show changes format every year, every major golf tournament that comes to Southport play under different rules each time, of course an airshow consists of planes flying about, the clue is in the title.

The Red Arrows were not available to anyone during this period as they are in North America, bit of a trip back to attend Southport or The Great North Run.

The old saw of charge or not charge, oh dear, pound to a pinch of the proverbial, the self same people moaning about the price would be even more vociferous if an extra charge went on council tax to pay for the show.

Southport like most UK airshows is suffering due to the simple facts that the RAF no longer have the range nor numbers of planes available for display, the numbers of ex military planes which can be kept flying is dwindling due to age and cost, but there are still large numbers of spectators who come to watch the show, as long as the paying spectators go away happy, then the show should stay.

[silver fox]

Local Businesses also lose out, some people avoid town when events are on also with a charge for the event people are tied to the site so don't actually spend any time or money in the town centre it is all spent with the outside caterers etc.
With all the 'Fossil Fuels' debate Airshows are becoming a thing of the past the same as Circus's with animals.

There has been a pass out system for years, spectators are not trapped inside.

Airshows may die out, but it will be due to cost and availability of aircraft, not fossil fuels or environmental concerns.

Have no doubt motor racing uses one hell of a lot more fossil fuel than airshows, should that all be scrapped as well?