Irish Airshows 2018

Chris_5339762

So the Newcastle Festival of Flight was completely cancelled today due to "atrocious" weather conditions.

Well, the flying was cancelled. Ground displays were still there but a lot of unhappy campers I can imagine.

jasT1981

Gutted, so much work went into putting together what I thought was a great line up, but 100% the right call. Conditions were absolutely horrible. At one stage visibility was around 30ft at the hotel. Typhoon came in, couldn't see a thing.

Believe it or not, the vast majority of people on FB (I run the Newcastle FoF page) have been very understanding and I've had 0 negative posts/messages, and everyone seems to understand the decision.

This is from the Slieve Donard hotel door.

Davidth88

Chris_5339762 wrote:

So the Newcastle Festival of Flight was completely cancelled today due to "atrocious" weather conditions.

I was up there ... lovely morning .... had a great cup of coffee ... settled in the sun waiting for the show..... announcer came on said typhoon is coming in ... and bang weather closed up ... cloud base of about 150 ft driving misty rain ... typhoon made some noise in the clouds and buggered off ... we saw nothing only the red arrows doing a fly past about midday on their way to refuel. Such a shame for the organisers the setup there is great the town is a great place and really pretty countryside ... damn shame . I'll be back next year for sure it's exactly 2hrs from west of dublin .

CantonasCollar

The weather was so unfortunate on Saturday, the cloud rolled down off the mountains about 5 minutes before the display was to begin. The Typhoon came in for a look and you couldn't actually see him but you could see his shadow on the cloud. I took my clothes out of the washing machine on Saturday night and they were dryer than when they went in.

Fingers crossed for better weather next year.

jasT1981

Portrush closes our islands shows this weekend. Very good line up too. Hopefully better weather than Newcastle. Will be up on the Saturday.

Both Days
RAF Typhoon
RAF Tutor
RAF BBMF Lancaster, Spitfire & Hurricane
Royal Navy Sea Fury T20
Catalina Flying Boat
Global Stars Aerobatic Team (Extra 300)
Wildcat Aerobatics (2x Pitts Special)
Huey and Loach Helicopters
Swiss Classic Flight (DC3 Dakota & 3x Beech 18)
Ulster Gliding Club Glider
Gyro Air Displays

Saturday Only
Mig 15
Irish Coast Guard S92 Search & Rescue

Sunday only
RAF Red Arrows
RAF Falcons

Portstewart Night Display

Piper J3C Cub - O Brien's Flying Circus
Extra 300 - Mark Jefferies

Kuva

Typhoon is great, 2 would be better.

jasT1981

Kuva wrote: »

Typhoon is great, 2 would be better.

No, 22 was better