Cholmondley - Pageant Of Power 16/07/11

[ian531]

We braved the elements for a good day out at Cholmondley.

Weather was not as bad as we'd expected. Three heavy downpours during the day were luckily avoided by finding shelter.

The weather had a massive effect on helicopter visitors with only TWO helicopters not connected with the show in the parking area!

In the static area were;

ZJ260 Squirrel DHFS
ZJ242 Griffin DHFS
G-OGJC Robinson R44 Private





Parked on the cricket pitch in an area sponsored by Eurocopter were;

G-SENS EC135 Eurocopter UK Ltd


G-RCNB EC120 Private


Awaiting their time to display and parked down by the visiting helicopter park were;

ZJ238 Griffin DHFS


ZJ707 Griffin DHFS


ZJ236 Griffin DHFS


These were later involved in a military set piece


Also parked here were,

ZJ264 & ZJ280 Squirrel's


I presume these were to be used in the agility competition, which didn't take place

Also parked here was ZJ703 Griffin


This was seen later in a Search and Rescue display on th lake






Parked in the visiting area were;

G-LEEJ Hughes 369HS Private


G-WOOF Enstrom 480 Netcopter.co.uk


Operating the very busy pleasure flights were

G-CEMC Robinson R44 Helicentre
G-FCUM Robinson R44 The Grange Country Club


First up in the air display was G-DADA Rotorsport UK MT-03 which put on an amazing display




Next up was G-IIHI Extra EA300 sponsored by Arbarth Cars




Finally the great Pitts Special Duo of G-BETI and G-IIIP








As far as I know that is a full list of aircraft on Saturday unless anything sneaked in to the visiting area

Obviously well down on previous years which is probably down to the weather. The cars were just as good with some amazing machines on view

Thanks for looking

Ian

[ian531]

Not had time to sort the car pictures yet

I'll post them soon in the non-aviation section soon

To be honest I wasn't in a great spot for the cars

Ian

[urgentemente]

I presume these were to be used in the agility competition, which didn't take place

What time did you leave the ground on Saturday? I was marshaling on the Saturday on post 5 , near chapel, and could see what appeared to be the agility competition in progress through the trees, as they were banking sharply and low around the trees to run at the flour bomb target etc.
I spectated on Sunday (having been to the concert and camped friday & saturday nights..), and watched the competition from the edge of the area. Despite the horrendous rain and wind the flying was impressive!

[RICEY]

The white EC-135 was at Liverpool when they hosted the mini Pagent Of Power

[ian531]

Hi urgentmente

We left when the cars finished on the track (about 6ish). Maybe I just didn't see them performing

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Ian

[urgentemente]

Yeh, think you must have missed them, they were on during the afternoon (I remember it being fairly reasonably sunny at the time before we had another shower or two..)
Cars finished approx 17:20 (slightly earlier than the programme/timetable we were given, great news for me as I had to head all the way back to the campsite with my kit, get changed, and head back to the concert area with food & drink )

Real pity you missed them doing the competition, I thought the flying was really good, in a fairly confined area with a lot of trees around!