JohnB wrote:
I wonder what the circumstances were for this drastic action to have come about?
The IWM statement indicated they are under financial pressures, and the reading-between-the-lines in conjunction with the TFC statement would be, that IWM have gone to TFC demanding a bigger slice of the pie from TFC, and TFC have said Foxtrot Oscar.
It also hasn't helped that the IWM are now staffed by pretty young things with degrees in media studies and business accounting and have zero interest in the airshow side of Duxford or even just having vistors on the site at all given the number of restrictions and conccessions (to the disabled for insteance) that have been removed in recent years.
The feeling from those closer to the people there, is that IWM staff would rather do away with the air displays completely, and the fact that IWM were active in offering part of the site to military aerospace contractor Marshalls of Cambridge as their new site, which would have stopped displays because of overfly restrictions, tell you all you need to know about the future of the place going forward. In the end Marshalls said Duxford wasn't going to be their new home, but, that doesn't take away the fact that had they gone there that would have been the end of display flying there anyway.
I can't see Flying Legends becoming a seaside show at all......don't think thats an option.
My view, I think there's more chance TFC will take the show to mainland Europe than it remaining in the UK.
I wonder if TFC will start to look at whether Duxford is the place to remain as a base going foward, maybe the others like ARCo etc as well in time, if IWM start to make it less and less attractive to remain there.
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