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Goodwood Revival 2011 air display times and flight path

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Tuesday, 6th, Sep, 2011

The Days schedule and event information is now up online and the air display time are provisionally booked for the following times:-
Friday 11:05 display over track
14:55 display over track
19:00 spitfire display over goodwood house
Saturday 8:30 spifire flyby 10 mins
11:10 5 spitfire display
15:00 (The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight 2 x spitfires 1 x lancaster )
19:00 spitfire display
Sunday 8:47 spifire flyby 10 mins
11:25 (The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight 4 x spitfires 1 x lancaster )
13:00 (Spitfire tribute on track)
13:15 spitfire squadron display
17:35 Battle of Britain spitfires leave

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.

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Festival of speed 2010 air display times

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Friday, 2nd, Jul, 2010

The following information came straight from the horses mouth so to speak.
Festival of speed 2010 air display times:

Saturday 3rd July: Red Arrows 11:30am

Sunday 4th July: Red Arrows 11:30am
Vulcan Bomber 1pm
Watch for free from here amazing view as if you were there! Location Free parking too!

Red Arrow from the 2010 festival of speed display, Waynes photos
A picture from today! same location

The vulcan bomber is due to fly at the RAF Waddington air show 3rd and 4th July and no official announcement has been made as the weather or not the plane is display ready.

other flights includes the navy black cat helicopters 2pm each day and a fighter jet called a hunter, but most people will only be interested in the arrows and the bomber, for info you can call the ticket office on 01243 755055 tickets still on sale

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1000 Hits from 25 countries and counting…

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 14th, Oct, 2009

Well as you know my site has been up a while now and after some mathematics and removing every time i log in today i have had 1000 hits on my website from 25 different countries which is above average according to Google… not bad for a 3 month old site.

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

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • Ireland
  • Canada
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Denmark
  • South Africa
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Slovenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • France
  • Morocco
  • India
  • China
  • Argentina
  • Iran
  • Georgia

    • 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

    Sunset at East head, waynes photos

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

    Wayne

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    Vickers Vimy Goodwood Revival ~ Last Flight

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 26th, Sep, 2009

    The Vickers vimy, a British heavy bomber developed during the First World War, the Vimy was both a successful military and civilian aircraft, flying into the history books on excursions to Capetown, Australia and the first ever flight across the Atlantic (piloted by Alcock and Brown) in 1919. This replica of the original aeroplane performed its last public display flight at on Sunday 20th September at the Goodwood revival 2009. However im sure that was said of the Avro Vulcan at one point so you never know, it left Goodwood airfield bound for Brooklands Museum in Surrey to live out its remaining days.
    unfortunately the scheduled flight for the day went of plan and i was in the wrong place as it flew over an hour early over shooting towards the sun on a grey sky making for a not so brilliant picture, none the less its still ok ish.

    Vickers vimy Goodwood Festival of Speed - Revival 2009,waynes photos

    Enjoy
    Wayne.

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    Avro Vulcan XH-558 – Revival More pictures and video

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Monday, 21st, Sep, 2009

    I have decided to post some more pictures today of the Avro Vulcan from yesterday as 1 just doesn’t do it justice or bring in the actual scale and how close and low it was. From left to right picture 1 is “as shot” reduced in size to fit on your screen, when i reduce the images to fit screen size it loses definition if you try to magnify it, picture 2 is the same image but cropped to give a closer look with more detail yet still resized to fit, picture 3 is the unedited natural size of the original photo but cropped to only show the aircraft, yes it really was that close! and lastly picture 4 is another angle looking north.

    Avro Vulcan - Revival 2009,waynes photosAvro Vulcan - Revival 2009,waynes photosAvro Vulcan - Revival 2009,waynes photosAvro Vulcan - Revival 2009,waynes photos

    Be sure to check back this week as there are more images from the revival to come spitfires, mustangs and some classic cars too……who would have thought?

    Lastly i have come across a video (thanks bro) on you tube filmed well with excellent sound capture something i didn’t achieve, probably one of the best videos ive seen.

    Enjoy
    Wayne

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    Avro Vulcan XH-558 – Goodwood Revival 2009

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Sunday, 20th, Sep, 2009

    I vividly remember standing on a raised bank by the river Lavant back in 1982 as a boy of 9 my mother standing next to me and the noise of this awesome amazing aircraft, i have waited 27 years to see this beauty in the sky above my head sadly my mum was not with me today but she was in my heart, and i will never forget the joy in her face jumping up and down in excitement when it flew over it gave me a shiver and a chill then as it did today, thank you to all at the vulcan to the sky trust that have made a cherished memory come to life again, long live the vulcan.

    Avro Vulcan - Revival 2009,waynes photos

    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

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