Festival of Flight Newcastle Co Down 10Th August 2013

[joey1]

A superb line up for this year's Show
 
(Confirmed Flying)

Red Arrows
Eurofighter Typhoon
Avro vulcan xh558
Golden Apple Sabre F86A
Hawker Hunter 'Miss Demeanour'
BBMF Dakota
Irish Aircorps PC9
Hawker Sea Fury T20
North American T6 Texan


(Confirmed static Display)

Grumman MK5 Wildcat 
Eurofighter Typhoon 

For all the relevant event  info....area Maps/parking....ect just click on  the Brochure link below.

http://www.downdc.gov.uk/Documents/Festivals/Festival-of-Flight-2013.aspx

 

[airbusa320]

Excellent line up.
Will be travelling up again this year.
Irish coastguard will also attend this year with a SAR display before the main show starts. 

[joey1]

Here's a link to the page regarding traveling to the designated parking areas

There's park n ride  park n walk facilities on the day 




http://www.downnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Traffic-Parking-Arrangements.jpg

[joey1]

Excellent line up.
Will be travelling up again this year.
Irish coastguard will also attend this year with a SAR display before the main show starts. 

Im planning to travel up from Dublin  will it be a case of leaving my house at " ridiculous  O Clock to get there ?

[airbusa320]

I will be coming from Kildare and plan on leaving early. It took me around 2hrs last year but I expect the traffic to be a lot heavier this year with the reds and the Vulcan coming , I used the park and ride at Nortfield and found it very well run with very regular transfers to near the town center.
Miss demenour,s display is worth attending for as well.

[airbusa320]

The flight past at 1pm will be air corps AW139, AAC gazalle and also a Merlin.
Just keeps getting better

[joey1]

Here's the time table for next weeks cracking show 

[joey1]

Red Arrows tweet for  their schedule for Newcastle


"Timings Sat 10: Dep Bristol 1300. Arr Belfast Int 1343. Dep Bel 1606. Disp NEWCASTLE 1615. Arr Bel... "
 

[airbusa320]

The Vulcan will be the final display act on the day according to the Down festivals Facebook page.
Irish Air Corps Casa is also due to appear.
BBMF Dakota display time is 15.30 according to their official schedule released yesterday.
Roll on Saturday , lets hope the weather holds.

[joey1]

The Vulcan will be the final display act on the day according to the Down festivals Facebook page.
Irish Air Corps Casa is also due to appear.
BBMF Dakota display time is 15.30 according to their official schedule released yesterday.
Roll on Saturday , lets hope the weather holds.

Vulcan is the last and looks like the Red Arrows  may stick around too I'd love to see a Vulcan/Reds formation
On the weather.. Other forums are quoting that there may be some showers  I'd wait until Sat morning to check

I'd be more concerned about the UK weather on the day  that's what could
Effect the Dakota and sabre getting of the ground regardless of the Down region

Roll on Sat

[airbusa320]

Would be nice to see the red and Vulcan join up.
Would also be nice to see the Dakota as didnt make it last year all dependent on the weather.
Fingers crossed that all we may get is light showers.

[joey1]

I will be coming from Kildare and plan on leaving early. It took me around 2hrs last year but I expect the traffic to be a lot heavier this year with the reds and the Vulcan coming , I used the park and ride at Nortfield and found it very well run with very regular transfers to near the town center.
Miss demenour,s display is worth attending for as well.

I'm traveling from Dublin via M1 towards Newry I was told from another forum when traveling from newary to avoid
Castlewellan road or surrounding area because most traffic will build up on Castlewellan road the member seemed to know the area well
Just wondering this is my first time to travel to Newcastle  are the "Park n Ride Signs  en route well signposted
 

[airbusa320]

Dont really know the place myself but park and ride was signposted last year and should be better this year.
Weather looking OK, and Sabre had a practice earlier.

[joey1]

Here are some pics from Festival Of Flight I seriously need to upgrade to a canon or Nikon these were directly taken From my camera no editing ....
sorry for the bad quality  

[Frank]

Nice shots Joey, the sun came out just at the right time for Miss Demeanour