Viewing - Part 4 of 4 - The question most of us have at any big airshow is where to sit, airfields are big spaces and finding a good spot is hit and miss and you've spent a lot of cash to get here, maybe paid extra to sit in one of the special enclosures and you end up with this....
can't see a darn thing when every one stands up.
We were fortunate that we had been to the Duxford airfield from Tuesday to Friday and had a pretty good lay of the land. For Saturday's Flying Legends Air Show we sat in the Friends of The Fighter Collection or the Friends of Duxford enclosures, more on the enclosures later. On the way back from Saturday's show, we decided that we would go directly to get a spot on the fence line, which we did and a nice couple, Frances and George volunteered to look after our chairs so we could check out the vendors. The photo below shows our great viewing spot, and the X on the map shows where we sat on Sunday.
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| George and Frances at Duxford Flying Legends |
We saw that a lot of people had loosely tied their chairs to the fence to "reserve" their spot however with Frances & George's offer to look after our chairs we did not have to tie our chairs but we would have. As you can see from the photos it was a very good spot.
There is also one area that is quite popular with the photo guys, it's called the "berm" or the "Tank Bank", marked as berm on the earlier map. Pre-airshow days this spot is virtually empty - Dan is all by his lonesome, on airshow days the berm or tank bank is packed with fans with camers, the sound of automatic camera shutters drown out the Merlins.
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| Dan at the berm - tank bank Duford |
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