Newark Air Museum Events 2008

2008 Events Programme
At Newark Air Museum

Throughout 2008 Newark Air Museum celebrates a series of anniversaries. To make these special the museum volunteers have put together their most ambitious set of events ever! These are listed in three categories for which different admission rates may apply.

On-Site Events 2008

Admission for each of the following events is Adults £6.25, Over 60s £5.75, Children £4.00 and Family ticket [2 adults & 3 children] £18.50.

7 February: Celebrations to mark the 25th Anniversary of Vulcan XM594 being flown in to Winthorpe Airfield; Free admission to the Vulcan cockpit on this day for anyone paying to visit the museum.

9 to 17 February: Half–Term Open Cockpits – each day during the half-term period at least one cockpit will be open for inspection [a small additional fee is charge to access the cockpit]

13 March: Buccaneer Anniversary Markings – unveiling of a set of temporary anniversary markings on XN964 to celebrate the types 50th Anniversary and the 20th Anniversary of XN964 being delivered to the museum.

24 & 25 May: Fighter Cockpit Days – special opening & viewing of some of the museum's fighters.

14 & 15 June: Cockpit-Fest 2008 & Aeroboot – Annual display of visiting cockpits from around the country & the traditional Aeroboot avionics and aviation goods sale.

13 & 14 September: Battle of Britain Open Cockpits - special opening & viewing of some of the museum's cockpits and a range of visiting displays.

Special On-Site Events 2008

Enthusiast Tours - The first five dates for 2008 has now been agreed for the popular Newark Air Museum Enthusiast Tours and these will be on the following Saturdays. Please note that the museum is open as normal on these dates:

9 February 2008
23 February 2008
8 March 2008
5 April 2008
19 April 2008

Places are only available by pre-booking and the all-inclusive entrance fee is £15 per person. Tour participants are greeted with a welcome snack before being taken in small escorted groups onto various museum aircraft including: Hastings, Shackleton, Varsity, Vulcan, Canberra & Phantom Cockpit. A special part of each tour is a behind the scenes tour to see "missing airframes" i.e. those undergoing restoration or that are in long-term storage around the site. After the tour, participants are free to wander around the extensive museum site at their leisure. Each Enthusiast Tour is limited to just 12 participants.

Day-Night Photo Shoot – The first date has been selected as Saturday May 24, 2008. The event will commence after the museum closes at 5pm. The event will feature themed ground equipment; uniformed personnel; and illuminated aircraft. The aircraft being featured for this first event will include: Vulcan, Shackleton, Hastings & Buccaneer. Admission costs £20 per person and places will be limited to 50 people. Anyone interested is asked to email in for details via the museum website.

Off-Site Events 2008

A series of talks based on the Avro Vulcan during five decades of service with the RAF has been arranged at the Holy Trinity Community Centre, Boundary Road, Newark, NG24 4AU.

22 May 2008 @ 2000 hours – Flying the Vulcan – by Group Captain John Laycock.

21 August 2008 @ 2000 hours – Fighting the Vulcan – by Squadron Leader High Prior.

20 November 2008 @ 2000 hours – Showing the Vulcan – by Squadron Leader David Thomas.

There will be just 200 places available for each talk and tickets will cost just £5.00 per person.

Footnote: Several other events are still at the planning stage. When details are confirmed they will be released via the News Page of the museum website at www.newarkairmuseum.org

The On-site and Special On-Site events will be held at the museum's Winthorpe Showground, Site, Newark, Notts, NG24 2NY. Telephone: 01636 707170. Unless otherwise advised the event opening times will be November to February daily 1000 – 1600 hours; October to March daily 1000 – 1700 hours (including weekends & Bank Holidays).

Newark Air Museum website - www.newarkairmuseum.org

Update - Cockpit-Fest 2008 [18.05.08]

We now have more than 30 cockpits / rigs / interiors confirmed as participating including an international participant from the Netherlands [the first for this year]. As you will see it is building up into an excellent assortment of visiting cockpits.

Items marked ** are totally new to the event.

Cockpits confirmed are: Beagle Pup; Lightning F.6; Swift F.7**; F.27**; Anson; Jet Provost T.4**; Tornado F.2; Meteor F.8; Harrier GR.3; DB 8A-3N [Nomad] (from the Netherlands) **

Hunter F.1; Hunter F.1**; Hunter F.2; Hunter F.4**; Hunter F.5**; Hunter T.7; Hunter FGA.9; Hunter FGA.9; Hunter FGA.9; Hunter GA.11; Hunter GA.11**; Hunter FGA.78;

Instrument Panels & Aircraft Interiors confirmed:

Stirling FN5 Gun Turret and Cockpit Layout
Boeing 737 Main Panel, with glass cockpit and associated panels
The Canberra PR.9 panel collection
Phantom instrument panel with ejection seat and Meteor ejection seat
Jet Provost instrument panel and ejection seat
Harrier, Gnat and Phantom instrument panels
A display of V-Force items, and assorted control columns
Mannequins and memorabilia

Cockpits Rigs confirmed: Vampire FB.5**

Special Visiting Displays

The Ex-Military Land Rover Association
Book Signing - One of the Few by John Shipman new from Pen-and-Sword (Sat/Sun 10-4)
Book Signing - A Passion for Flying by Gp Cpt Tom Eeles, new from Pen-and-Sword (Sat 10-4 Sun 2-4)
Book Signing – RAF Harrier-Ground Attack Falklands by Sqd Ldr Jerry Pook, from Pen-and-Sword (Sat/Sun 10-4)
A display by the Thorpe Camp Radio Museum
Crusader 80 – British Army of the Rhine living history display
Owls from the Raptor Foundation
A display from the Newark Millgate Museum
Flying displays of jet powered scale aircraft
Display by the Lincolnshire Integrated Aviation Heritage Partnership [LIAHP]
Book signing – Wrecks and Relics (21st Edition) by Ken Ellis, times TBA [bring your own copy, or buy from NAM on the day].

A steady stream of advanced bookings is now coming in for the AEROBOOT aviation and avionics sale that runs alongside this event, don't miss out on the advanced booking discount that can be secured if you book by June 1st.

Regular updates relating to confirmed participants will continue to appear over the coming weeks at www.newarkairmuseum.org

Cockpit-Fest 2008 scheduled for Saturday June 14th and Sunday June 15th, 2008.

RAF Valley Charity Photocall The RAF Valley Charity Photocall will take place at RAF Valley in Anglesey on Thursday 14th August 2008 between 0830 and 1600hrs. Celebrating 90 years of the Royal Air Force and 70 years since the first operational Spitfire flew with 19 Sqn. Limited to 750 places, the remainder of places will be made available to the public from the 2nd April via the website at www.valleyaviationsociety.net Valley Aviation Society V-A-S Official Website - www.valleyaviationsociety.net SUPPORT OUR PARAS There is an event at Old Sarum airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire on 25th May to raise money for casualties of the Parachute Regiment as they are about to deploy to Afghanistan. Apart from a range of other exciting ground attractions, there will be some 55 aircraft flying in the show lasting some 2 1/2 hours - Spitfire, Hurricane, Dakota, Mustang, Aerostars etc. Full details are on the web-site www.sopara.org.uk. 100% of profit goes to the Airborne Forces Charity. Ticket prices are very reasonable compared to other airshows - £16 family of 4, £8 adult or £4 child. These are early bird, on-line prices. SUPPORT OUR PARAS website - www.sopara.org.uk Cold War Jets Open Day The Cold War Jets Open Day will take place at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire on Sunday 25th May 2008. There will be taxi-runs by aircraft such as the Lightning, and Victor etc in the usual BAH Open Day format. High Speed Demonstrations: Lightnings Comet Victor Buccaneer Iskra Canberra Hunter Vulcan Jet Provost Model Aircraft High performance BMW cars v Fast Jet races See the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet Super Guppy Aerojumble + Hot Food and much more....... Enquires: 0116 241 8787 / 0771 48 98 548 Admission Adults - £12 Accompanied children (16 and under) - Free Disabled parking available Bruntingthorpe Airfield is off A5199 (old A50) South of Leicester. Running order: 11:00 - Iskra 11:30 - Comet 12:00 - Canberra 12:30 - Jet Provost 13:30 - Buccaneer XX894 static run 14:00 - Iskra 14:30 - Lightning 15:00 - Victor 15:30 - Vulcan static run Buccaneer XX900 is reported as u/s and not expected to run. National Museum of Flight Airshow The National Museum of Flight Airshow takes place at East Fortune Airfield, Scotland on Saturday 26 July 2008 from 10:00-17:00. Come along to the National Museum of Flight’s annual Airshow for an action packed day out that all the family will enjoy! Visit East Fortune Airfield on Saturday 26 July for the National Museum of Flight’s only air display. In the afternoon there will be over two hours of breath taking, high octane aerial displays, ranging from historic warbirds to contemporary military jets. Prefer to keep your feet on the ground? There will be plenty to see and do throughout the day; children’s activity workshops, fairground rides, displays, demonstrations and much, much more… Check the website for programme updates as they happen, and to book your tickets. Book in advance and save up to £5 per ticket! www.nms.ac.uk/airshow Telephone 0870 421 4299 Advance Ticket Prices Adult £14, Conc £12, Child 5-15 £7, Family (2 adults, 3 children) £35 Members: Adult £11, Conc £9, Child 5-15 £5 Child 0-4 free Parking £4 Programme £4 Gate Ticket Prices Adult £17, Conc £15, Child 5-15 £10, Family (2 adults, 3 children) £45 Child 0-4 free Parking £4 Programme £4 Concorde Boarding Passes are available on the day on a first come, first serve basis. Adult £3, Concession £2, Child 5-15 £2 National Museum of Flight Airshows website - www.nms.ac.uk/airshow Pirton Summer Fair The Pirton Summer Fair takes place at Pirton, Herts. on the 12th July 2008. FLYING DISPLAY This year we will have an amazing mix of displays and fly-pasts including: World class unlimited aerobatics The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Spitfire & Hurricane YAK-52 display Glider aerobatics and Captain Neville's Flying Circus Other items are still in the planning stage and details will be made available nearer the day. Watch this space! Pirton Summer Fair website - www.pirton.org.uk Queen's Birthday Flypast 2008 The Queen's Birthday flypast will take place over London on the 14th June 2008. The rehearsals for the Queen's Birthday flypast will take place 11th-13th June 2008 (3 days are chosen in case of bad weather etc). A large formation of aircraft will form Her Majesty The Queen's 82nd Birthday Flypast on 14 June 2008; rehearsals for this flypast will be held during the period 11-13 June 2008. The rehearsals will start in the vicinity of Southwold, Suffolk then route to RAF Marham, Norfolk and conclude at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. The Flypast itself will form up at Southwold, route via Ipswich, abeam Colchester, Chelmsford and enter the London City CTR South of Stapleford; the formation will overfly Buckingham Palace and route via RAF Northolt, RAF Halton and disperse in the RAF Brize Norton area. Expected aircraft formation for Queen's Birthday Flypast 2008: Lead - BBMF C130 Hercules - Lyneham Transport Wing King Air (x2) - 45(Reserve) Sqn (Cranwell) Typhoon (x9) - 29(Reserve) Sqn (Conningsby) VC 10 - 101 Sqn (Brize Norton) Tornado F.3 (x2) - 43 Sqn (Leuchars) E3D Sentry - 8/23 Sqn (Waddington) Tornado F.3 (x11) - 111 Sqn (Leuchars) C17 Globemaster - 99 Sqn (Brize Norton) Tornado F.3 (x2) - 43 Sqn (Leuchars) Nimrod MR.2 - Kinloss Surveillance Wing Tornado F.3 (x2) - 111 Sqn (Leuchars) Tristar - 216 Sqn (Brize Norton) HS125 (x2) - 32 Sqn (Northolt) Tornado GR4 (x16) - 9 Sqn (Marham)  Hawk T.1 (x2) - 100 Sqn (Leeming) Queen's Birthday Flypast Map Click to open pdf file with rehearsal and flypast maps. More details can be found by clicking here. Previous years Scanner Frequencies (Note that Red Arrows will be on North American tour this year): 120.625 STANSTED APPROACH 123.300 NATO Common Radar 125.800 WATTISHAM ZONE 126.950 STANSTED RADAR 132.700 THAMES RADAR 132.900 NEATISHEAD (Displays/Fly-Past) Primary 134.550 NEATISHEAD (Displays/Fly-Past) Secondary 135.275 LONDON MIL(East) Fly-Past Monitor Primary 135.925 LONDON MIL(East) Pre-Join Transit 232.875 31 Sqn Air-to-Air GOLD STAR OPS 243.450 RED ARROWS Air-to-Air 244.550 56(R) Sqn Air-to-Air 260.150 NEATISHEAD(TAD 100 Series) Tanker Co-ord Primary 275.350 LONDON MIL(West) Pre-Join Transit for Brize based aircraft 277.775 LONDON MIL(East) Pre-Join Transit & Co-ord 299.975 LONDON MIL(East) Fly-Past Monitor Secondary/Pre-Join Co-ord 300.100 Air-to-Air Refuelling LION/MADRAS 369.125 NEATISHEAD(TAD 100 Series) Tanker Co-ord Secondary Lowestoft Airshow 2008 The Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival takes place at Lowestoft, Suffolk on the 24th-25th July 2008. THURS 24TH 1:00 - THE TIGERS 1:15 - GRACE SPITFIRE 1:28 - SEA KING RESCUE DEMO 1:45 - TUCANO 1:58 - THE BLADES 2:12 - AIR AMBULANCE (Bk117) 2:33 - BOB MEM FLIGHT (Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane) 2:52 - HAWK 3:05 - BLUE EAGLES (Lynx, Gazelle, Scout, Allouette) 3:20 - TORNADO GR4X2 FLYPAST ONLY 3:24 - CURTIS P40 KITTYHAWK (Peter Teichman) 3:36 - HAWKER HUNTER (Miss Demeanour) 3:48 - CASSUTTS X4 4:00 - XH558 4:12 - WINGWALKERS 4:26 - TYPHOON 4:38 - FAIREY SWORDFISH 4:55 - REDS FRI 25TH 12:00 - RED ARROWS 12:25 - DISPLAY BREAK 1:00 - SWORDFISH 1:12 - HUNTER (Miss Demeanour) 1:24 - WINGWALKERS 1:40 - P40 KITTYHAWK (Peter Teichman) 1:52 - CASSUTTS X4 2:06 - TUCANO 2:18 - AIR AMBULANCE Bk117 2:30 - BOB MEM FLIGHT (Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane) 2:48 - THE BLADES ACCORDING TO PROGRAMME? 3:05 - HONDA POWERBOATS DISPLAY UP TO 40 BOATS 3:30 - XH558 3:45 - TBA LISTEN TO THE P.A? 4:05 - TYPHOON 4:17 - BLUE EAGLES (Lynx, Gazelle, Scout, Allouette) 4:32 - HAWK 4:45 - SPITFIRE SOLO 5:00 - THE TIGERS Official Lowestoft Air Festival website.