Based on previous years there have been more flights at approx 17:00-18:00 and day closing displays.

previous years have included the red arrows but not in the last 3 years at the revival and according to my sources are not current scheduled to display at Goodwood Revival they are due to be in the Netherlands on the 16th-17th and in Newcastle and belgium on the 18th so highly unlikely to see them at Goodwood, like wise the Avro Vulcan’s last scheduled display of the year is currently 10th of september.

Click on the image below to see a larger map of the Goodwood airfield, access around the track is limited during the display sessions and visitors to the revival can not walk past the orange markers either side of the track during the displays.

However if you are not attending and would like a close up vantage point from outside the airfield you can use the orange markers as a guide as to where the aircraft will be flying the red line on the map is a public footpath so a great vantage point.
I state here and now if you stand directly under the flight path you do so at your own risk not because i said it was a good idea!

So if your questions are any of the following you should now have the answers:-

Are the red arrows flying at revival = no
Is the avro vulcan flying at revival = not likely
where is the best place to watch the displays = see above
what times are the air displays at revival 2011 = see above
what planes are flying at revival = up to 12 spitfires and other old planes ( harvard, mustangs, lancasterbomber, etc)
any further questions please email me
im very local to the track so have good information.

Heres a ‘taster of whats to come a shot taken during the ‘Moment of rememberance service’

For those wishing to take advantage of the air display from local fields or near by roads the times i have so far are
Friday 17th 08:45 (P51 Mustang) 11:05 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang) / 13.10 (Brace of spitfire + Sea Fury & Hurricane) / 15:35 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang) / 18:45 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang)
Saturday 18th 08:45 (P51 Mustang) / 13:15 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang) / 14:45 Battle of Britain Memorial Flight / 16.10 (Brace of spitfire + Sea Fury & Hurricane) / 19:00 13.10 (Brace of spitfire + Sea Fury & Hurricane)
Sunday 19th 08:45 (P51 Mustang) 11:20 (Spitfire MH434 & P51D Mustang) / 13.35 (Brace of spitfire + Sea Fury & Hurricane) / 15:30 Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

All Times And Aircraft as per the official programme on the iPhone app for the event.

For a good view of aircraft landing you need to be near here, best to be inside the field
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For take off, here by the gate
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For general outside the venue viewing, anywhere in this picture
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I have been unable to find out which planes are flying but judging by todays practice flights, there will be spitfires, and mustangs and the harvard among others, rumors are rife on the internet that lord march was the mysterious donor to the Vulcan to the skies project and that it will be making an unannouced flight though it is not listed on the vulcan website and the red arrows are listed as being in Newcastle.

As per the festival of speed, i shall be putting a few teaser pics up before i do a gallery, with the camera fixed hopefully the pictures should be a lot better then the festival ones!

I will back on saturday to take shots of the racing, rally stage and the red arrows display and maybe some F1 cars.
check back for more pics soon……

Thank you to all that have visited and had a look and please come back also feel free to leave your comments under each post you can remain anonymous if you wish just make up an email address.

Heres some interesting facts for you … or maybe not….
when searching Google World Wide for “waynes photos” Ranked 2nd of about 42 million results
when searching Google uk for “waynes photos” Ranked 1st from 400,000 results

The busiest single day was 2nd July with 55 hits
The single most popular post overall has been The London Architecture Poll with 46 visits but only 15 votes
The average page view is 2.71 pages per visit, spending 3 minutes 17 seconds viewing those pages.
In reality there are a high number of single page visits staying for 10 seconds or less, but here have been a number of visitors how have stayed and given the site a thorough read through thanks you to Mondays visitor who stayed for 29 minutes reading 12 pages from the Uk.

55% of people visiting the site return for another look…
33% of visitors arrived from google or other search engines.

Overall there were visits from 25 countries around the globe in order of most hits first here are the stats

The 25th Country or region is … Unknown (ip region not set) so it could have come from anywhere

There are hundreds more stats i could bore you with but i wont, but i will tell you that i can even tell the screen resolution of the pics or handheld devices the website is viewed on and i will be using this in future to maximise the size of the photos i put up.
shame about the lens flare in this picture

hope i havent sent you to sleep, come back soon as i have some more images to post this week.

Wayne

Enjoy
Wayne.

Below is a mock up (photoshop edit) of how the car might have looked if i had taken the same photo on film back in the 50′s

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And finally we have another photoshop edit of a scene that i captured just outside the main gates at Goodwood circuit of a mobile canteen from world war 2
if it wasn’t for a modern van in the background and a chap not wearing the uniform it would be easy to pass this off as an original photo such was the detail in their re creation of the time.

Enjoy
Wayne

Shot from here (belated thanks to the land owner).

Some information about the Avro Vulcan and what makes it so special designed in 1947, measuring 97ft or 29.59 meters long (that’s 2 1/2 buses) with a wingspan of 99ft or 30.18 meters with a top speed of 627mph (just under mach 1) so successful was the technology involved in the design of these aircraft the engines were later scaled up to power Concorde.
All in all there were 136 Vulcan bombers built comprising of 2 prototypes 45 mk 1 and 89 mk 2 although only 16 remain in existence in museums there are 4 nose sections that were kept however XH558 is the ONLY fully working vulcan at this present time, and finally if you thought your car was high maintenance or not good miles per gallon this baby burns about £1000 of fuel every 20 mins.!!!! not for nipping to the shops.

I wonder if i will ever get to photograph the Vulcan and Red arrows in the same picture another 27 years perhaps?

Enjoy
Wayne