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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4917682" data-attributes="member: 59506">Yeah, I was talking about Air Fete at Mildenhall. Unfortunately, since 9/11 they stopped doing it. When I was stationed there the admin and base housing side of the base was a bit "open" and hard to secure (although I think they have fenced in the open areas and put up secure gates since then). During the first Gulf War they had to bring in local police in order to secure it. The open areas just kind of merged in with the Beck Row area. It was kind of hard to see where the base ended and the local village began. But the security issues of putting on an airshow like that, on the base, I think was something they just decided wasn't feasible to do after 9/11. I would imagine the decision may have also had something to do with the increased ops tempo (significantly more people deployed and a higher amount of transient traffic - tankers and cargo planes stopping through on their way to OEF or OIF). But it's too bad, that was one seriously cool show.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> But you are right, there are still quite a few good annual air shows out there. Even when Air Fete was still running, it was only like the second or third biggest Air Show in Europe. I think the other ones are still going strong.  Very cool. It's so big (and loud!) that it looks like it's almost just floating in the air (kind of like the effect the C-5 has). Being mostly a big wing that thing is all lift. I'm not sure what the stall speed is on it, but I'd imagine it's probably much lower than most aircraft of similiar size.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />  Sounds right. I think at the time there was only that store and a Games Workshop store. Otherworlds originally had been in an older building on the other side of the "Mall" (can't remember what it was actually named but we always called it the Mall). But about 95/96 they moved over to the other side of the park, near the edge of that little outdoor shopping area. I found a mint condition Oriental Adventures there for only £20. They always had cool stuff like that.</blockquote>

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