Red Bull air race

[Leebert]

Is on at about 4ish on channel 4 today. No helis but fantastic flying!

[Disc]

Ah some club members are there today and they havnt flown the planes due to the weather!

So what they will show on C4 will be intresting!

[mike557]

The first two rounds from yesterday were shown. truly amazing flying 250 mph + at 50 feet you gotta be impressed

[Leebert]

Yeah, that was cool :cool:
Pity there was no live flying - British weather :(

Screaming along at that speed, that low and then pulling a 12 g turn - Incredible. 3.5 to 4 g is enough for me. Max respect.

[Disc]

Very impressive espically as Longleat has small hills etc and did you see how close they come to those trees!

Bloody impressive!

[Steve]

We went last year - very impressive flying by rich boys with posh toys.

Last year it was free - you just had to apply online for a car pass and if you got one you were lucky. I did, so we went. Took us 3.5 hours to get there, saw some excellent flying, got sun burnt and 7 hours to get home! It took 3 hours just to get out of the car park. Oh, and you needed to be fit enough for ther serious hike from the car park to the flying area.

We saw a bloke hovering a shock-flyer in the car park.

Wasn't it £35 or something this year?

[col9]

We had a ticket for today, and yes £35. For a jeep full people it seemed a good deal.

We saw the weather forcast at 5am this morning and thought bugger, and took the kids to London for the day instead. We Got a text message 7:31 this evening say it had been cancelled :( well usefull:rolleyes:

Maybe next year.

See ya
Col.

[Steve]

They're not stupid are they?

They do it free one year with loads of doemstic TV advertising, get 60,000 people there with some celebs doing the commentary (it was Jane Middlemis last year), and then everyone liked it so much that you can pay £35 a car to go this year.

Wahey! Quids in for Red Bull.

If you assumed that there was an average of 3 people per car, that's 20,000 cars = £700,000, of which I'm sure loopy Lord Bath gets a nice cut for blokes playing with fancy planes in his front garden!

Am I a bit jaundiced about it?

[Fixxxer]

Same with every event, start it for free or very little admission and then charge a small fortune although if you compare 35 quid for a whole car against 26 quid a person to get into alton towers for the day then it seems a good deal. Same queues either way ;)

[Fixxxer]

Oh and the flying was bloody impressive but i wouldn't want to be a passenger on the british guys next flight.... I thought the bird presenting was quite a darling to........

[Tris]

We tried to get there yesterday and my god, ive never seen traffic like it.

M4 down to longleat was totally solid, so much so that after 6 hours (its about a 2ish hour trip for us) we gave up and turned back home !! :(

Its the good old British way of trying to screw as much money out of something as they can, 10,000 cars down two main roads on a saturday morning was never going to happen !. According to the local radio, they partly canceled it due to the weather, and partly because hardly anyone had got there.