Erm, I suddenly remember, I may be very busy that weekend and can't make it!
Erm, I suddenly remember, I may be very busy that weekend and can't make it!
Any of you guys taking the Gold Pass option?
No Gold Pass for us....That's a different area we have never exploited....
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I'd had the Gold Pass for the last 3-years. To be honest....it's difficult to justify. The main reason I bought it was simply because you can park on site with no grief and also get on the flightline earlier. However you can do that for an extra fiver. You get a 'free' programme and that's about it really. The seating is not that beneficial if you want to take images or shoot video. Video will always have the commentator talking his usual tosh during the display, especially when the aircraft are flying past and with two speakers pointing at the Gold area....you wont get anything else for audio.
Images can be shot anywhere on the site but in the Gold Pass area you'll have to stand at the back because you'll get stoned by the seated people if you raise your head near the front!
Personally if they had seating that was elevated from front to back it would be perfect. You could see above the person in front of you and see the taxiing aircraft fully, not just the wings up.
Sadly I can't make it this gear due to work commitments but will be there in 2017....and most likely head to the campsite and the adventures that lay within!
Cheers, MP
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Fine, general admission it is then if that's what the guys are doing!
Campsite and Tickets booked I WILL be there this year!!!
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JG4 got Gold Pass tickets only for the 09.07.16.
We hope we see u all...and go later in thre Pub!
Airshow tickets and campsite booked, see you there.
Whatto Lewis and all. I'm going to the show on Sunday along with Oxo and Grat, not sure what time we'll be there, I'll give you a call and maybe we can meet up. Looking forward to it as I recall it is a fantastic event when the weather is good, not been for a few years now.
TTFN for now..hope to see you all on the day.
Make sure its the Saturday airshow if you want to meet up as we are booked for then...we usually go home on the Sunday...Friday night at the Eagle Pub...
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Im seriously thinking of inflicting myself on you this year but having tired to book via the caravan club website the only pitch available is a football one costing £30 a night. Now im no skinflint so thats fine but i wondered if theres anything i need to tell the owners about being part of a group.
Cheers
BOO
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Is the campsite fully booked?...if that's the case it would be a first in all the years I have been going...
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" Better a thorn on the outside than a prick on the inside"
Booster: Good morning im calling to pay for my group reservation.....
Receptionist: Not a problem sir... can i ask the name of the reservation group?
Booster: Im with the ATAG!
receptionist: Come again?
Booster: the ATAG... you know... lewis, dave, gromit, DB..the guys!.. you know..
Receptionist: Im sorry... i dont...
Booster: You Know!?! ATAG the Cliffs of dover battle of Britain online re-creation group!
Receptionist: oohhhhhhhhh.. the guys who run around the campsite at 3AM rat arsed, arms out wide pretending they are airplanes screaming "check six check SIX!" and "DAGGA DAGGA DAGGA DAGGA" ? that ATAG?
Booster: ..... eeeeeerrm .... ...yes...
Receptionist: that will be £3400 plus £30 site fee...
Booster: WHAT!!??? whats the £3400 for??..
Receptionist: last year its seems your ELITE group shot down 3 bombers on the campsite 2 of which crashed into 2 guest tents completely destroying them, the 3rd... well shall we say he had an "oil leak" over several tents rendering them beyond further use down to the extreme stench left behind...
Booster: ahhh.... that.... (looks over shoulder to check wife isn't listening)
Receptionist: Yes... that
Booster: JG4 is coming this year tho
Receptionist: Who?
Booster: You know.. jerry..... the german pilots...
Receptionist: Click.............. dead tone....
Booster: hello?
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Oh my, what a laugh . . . . wish I could come to duxford one year . . .
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If this year goes well I'm hoping to join you fellas for 2017.
Looked like a lot of fun.
DB I love the required French Canadian beard!
Enjoy the show folks.
To those travelling by car, some carpool etiquette.
If it's brown, shoot it down!
you are all lucky lads getting to go to the flying legends. have fun fella's and loads of pics please.
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Got back last night from Duxford,
Met up with Lewis and the gang and bumped into JG4 in the Eagle pub, camped over night and spent the Saturday at the show and in the Museum.
So how did it go?
The ATAG lads made myself and my mate Bob very welcome despite Bob not even being a CloD player and it was a great social evening on Friday returning to the campsite at 01:00 after a kebab and finding out Lewis speaks Turkish, and retired for the night at 02:00,
JG4 are a great bunch of lads and it was really good to meet them, the slightly awkward not knowing what to say moment passed in seconds as we realised we all have a lot in common, Balthazar and DUI being very social, the ice was broken and we all got talking, so a big to the lads from Germany.
Woke up next morning at 07:30 in a light drizzle, went and had a shower then Bob and myself walked down to Cambridge for a proper furr your arteries English Breakfast, once we were all sorted it was on the bus and off to Duxford.
Spent the first few hours in the Museum hangers, and browsing the shops before the show started at 14:00, almost got in the B17 for a walk through but they ran out of time before airside was closed
The show was great, well I though it was, Lewis fell asleep on the concrete like he fell out of a ninth floor window, causing great obstruction to the general public, the sun filtered through the high cloud making it very warm and we all ended up looking like extras from an Amdram pochahontas production, the flying was enjoyable if a little sedate as you would expect for aircraft of this age.
The F22 was a surprise but not really flown with any enthusiasm and the narration CD for the F22 was really, really, naff, someone please write to the DoD and tell them the guy who did that needs shooting, it's a psudo Hollywood B move style overly dramatic embarrassment!
The F4 Wildcat was great to see but sounds like a broken motorbike, Gloster Gladiators are absolutely AWESOME, the top of the loops they pulled were so tight it was astonishing almost looking like it was trying to flip, B25 Mitchells are beautiful in the flesh, B17 are very impressive when they taxi past, love the sound, Hawker Sea Furies are magnificent and sound soooo smooth compared to other radials!
The Dakota was lovely and surprised us all when it did a sudden climbing break to Port away from it's Beech escorts, The Blenheim is a hybrid of mk1 and MkIV bits (thanks to Monkeynut for explaining that one) the original cockpit (mkIV) is in the Museum and guys, it's really small, the in game graphics make it look quite large, the real one is tiny I doubt I could fit without taking the seat out
There's a lot more to say but I'm not going to bore you all stupid even more, all I can say is make the effort, it's great to put faces (really ugly ones mostly ) to the voices, my mate Bob enjoyed the weekend so much he want's to go again next year.
Oh, and Moose shall now be re named The Cat as he's scared of rain, what a wuss!
Last edited by Gromit; Jul-11-2016 at 09:23.
I am kinda jealous right now so talk to the hand
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Seriously enjoying all the post Duxford 'write up's!' Brilliant stuff from Gizz and Gromit! Thanks for sharing!
For those of us who couldn't make it this year.... keep 'em coming......and I hope the headaches go soon!!!! (A quick blast of pure oxygen often helps, so I'm told!)
Salute!
Lew catching forty winks somewhere near the start
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Lew and one of the Mustangs (top left)
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Lew with assorted Hawker bi-planes
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Lew with the Spit, Hurri Blennie and a couple of Gladiators near the end
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Legend!
To be fair I think most of us had a kip at some point during the show after a rather late pre show evening of boozing at the Eagle.
The Raptor was very cool and the commentary was hilarious, couldn't have been more American, I thought it was a wind up.
Fantastic weekend all round, good to meet so many new chaps this year especially Gromit, Bob and the JG4 guys and good to catch up with the usual suspects too!
Last edited by ATAG_Monkeynut; Jul-10-2016 at 16:47.
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