A local story for Hagar...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4577730.stm

Miserable people...

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Second largest spectator activity in the country, after football...

Somebody needs to appeal to the Greens' constituents with a reminder of the significant role played by aviation-including military- in all kinds of environment-preserving tasks... and the show organizers should invite the Greens to the show to freely promote research and development of quieter, greener aviation technologies.... that is, if they're even aware of the latest developments in that area...
Who knows? Maybe some kid inspired by a show like this will someday be the guy who invents an aircraft engine that runs on fresh air and sunshine...("Cancelled? Aww, gee whiz- I was gonna be an aeronautic engineer, but I'm so disillusioned now, I think I'll be a lawyer!!")
The issue may really just be money, but the Greens seem to be the ones with the most effective organized protest, so their little axe has to be dulled somehow.
Best of luck to the Airborne; we lost our own little shindig at the Sussex, NJ airport recently... don't think it was a political thing, although I'm sure many wet blankets complained every year.

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What rock were they living under? I went to the Atlantic City airshow on 31 August 2005. It was probably the single best day of the year for any given business along the boardwalk, after they complete the Ocean One Pier it will probably be even better. The enviromental impact is a load of bullcrap. How much affect can a few extra airplanes and automobiles on FOUR days of the whole damn year have? Now if you told me that a fully loaded K-135 had to jettison its entier load of fuel to make an emergency landing I may start listening to you. And the economic impact can only be good. When extra people come into town they can't possibly take money away, they can only bring it with them. I bet the gas (petrol for for the rest of the world) stations loved it. As did the innumerable food and souvenier stands set up on the airport grounds. It is a simple fact. When your town has a tourist attraction, you get more money than one who does not.

It just occured to me that I can't think of a better aviation-related reason to finally visit the UK: to show my support for this event.
What week is it scheduled for this year? , I really should make a point of being there, and be sure that every time I pay for anything while in the area I loudly mention that I'm there "for the Airbourne"...
Not that the US dollar's doing all that well over there...
  I won't have much to spend, I think.
But it's a worthy cause; sounds like a great event.

Thats the way that Thunder Over the Boardwalk was. Atlantic City's beaches are free, and since the show was over the ocean, centered on the Ocean One Pier and Boardwalk Hall, the show was also free. If it werent for the lifegaurds protest you would have been able to be directly under the aircraft providing you were able to swim 2-300 yards and then tread water for long enough. It is hard to believe that anyone in thier right mind would protest againt 250k+ tourists (800k in Eastbourne's case) spending thier money in your town for a day. Especially when 2 large sodas, 2 slices of pizza and a philly cost $20.

Unfortunatly, Atlantic City's 05 airshow was the last flight of the Vulture's formation who lost two of thier number in a training accident on 10 July 2005.
Hopefully next year I'll remember my camera.

Awesome shot of the harrier, Hagar. Only time I had a jet fly that low over me was a Blue Angel F-4 Phantom when I was a kid. Left an impression I carry to this day. Wasn't even at the show. I was playing in a field on off  base near the show.

Keni