Happy new Year

The period up to the new year has seen the Snow at last go
and tempertures returning to normal but Damp foggy and
low cloud most of the Time.
Airfield Movements continued right up to close at 1930
on 31st with MLM 011 9K-AFM Last movement.


Happy New year

Farnborough at Christmas

Not a lot one can say about the decorations in the town Or
Events . Santa in Kingsmead and today 18th they had a
band singing and several charity stalls.

Princesmead had the best Display over the Cafe area

Christmas in Farnborough as always not a lot you can say

18/12/2010 winter comes to Farnborough

Not a lot has been happening in the Farnborough area
last few weeks other than periods of Snow and cold
snaps.
Aviation the final weeks of HARRIER was marked by
a flypast by 4 aircraft

Saturday morning 18th Heavy snow all day and
Airfield was closed and local roads really bad
but shops managed to stay open .

click pictures for bigger print

Clockhouse Roundabout at the height of the Blizzard

Queeensmead shopping center managed to stay open

Victoria Road Farnborough at 1200 the snow has stopped

A325 Farnborough Road at JNC Empress Avenue
Farnborough (Main) this time the Trains did not stop running .

Harrier At Farnborough 15/11/2010

Rather A sad day at farnborough with the arrival from RAF
Cottismore ZG479 Harrier No 1 sqn RAF . This was to say
goodby to the Harrier Design Team at BAE-SYS Farnborough
as the Harrier is to be withdrawn from Service completly
COT1 callsign Arrived at 1009 doing a couple of circuits
and Vertical landing . Departed For Home at 1530 .

for a picture click here- ZG479
credit with thanks to Andy H A member of
Farnborough-aviation-group

28/10/2100 Military at Farnborough

Making a rare appearance on the 26th at Farnborough Airport
from it base In Germay was C9B Skytrain 160051 of the
United States Navy . click picture taken by a forum member
on a very Damp Murky Farnborough Afternoon .
departed for Home at 0815 this morning 28th.

In recent days a B737 Of the Royal Thai Airforce has been
seen here at Farnborough HS-CMV Its civil registration

26/10/2010 Cup replay

The FA Cup replay at Dover was a complete disaster for
Farnborough loosing 5-0 . Farnborough were 4-0 down
by Halftime . The Winners travel To Kent side Gillingham
in the FACUP 1st Round Proper.

Farnborough V Dover 23 Oct 2010

The Teams

Dover started the game Very Strongly and look far likely to be first to score but
Farnborough took the lead mid way through the Half. score at half time
Farnborough 1 Dover 0
Second half was end to end football with dover eventually getting a deserved
goal match ending Farnborough 1 dover 1 replay tuesday 26th oct 745PM at Dover

Farnborough Corner

FA-CUP Saturday 23
1	Lincoln Moorlands Railway or Mossley AFC	v	Darlington
2	Sheffield or Frickley Athletic	v	Radcliffe Olympic or Tipton Town
3	Guiseley AFC	v	Redditch United
4	Fleetwood Town	v	Buxton or AFC Telford United
5	Altrincham	v	Gateshead
6	North Ferriby United or Vauxhall Motors	v	Newcastle Town
7	FC United of Manchester	v	Barrow
8	Workington	v	Nuneaton Town
9	Tamworth	v	Grimsby Town
10	Kidderminster harriers	v	York City
11	FC Halifax Town	v	Mansfield Town
12	Wrexham	v	Southport
13	Stalybridge Celtic	v	Eastwood Town
14	Droylsden	v	Solihull Moors or Barwell
15	Brentwood Town or Woking	v	Eastleigh
16	Hythe Town	v	Bury Town or Staines Town
17	Eastbourne Borough	v	Harrow Borough
18	Cambridge United	v	Lewes
19	Corby Town	v	Salisbury City
20	Newport County	v	Crawley Town
21	Luton Town	v	St. Albans City or Kingstonian
22	Farnborough	v	Dover Athletic
23	Kettering Town	v	Rushden & Diamonds
24	Carshalton Athletic	v	Chelmsford City or Bromley
25	Hendon	v	Metropolitan Police or Wealdstone
26	Leiston	v	Canvey Island or Dartford
27	Basingstoke Town	v	AFC Wimbledon
28	Swindon Supermarine	v	Bath City
29	Havant & Waterlooville	v	Histon
30	Forest Green Rovers	v	Maidenhead United
31	Poole Town	v	Hayes & Yeading United
32	Ebbsfleet United	v	Boreham Wood

11 0ctober 2010

Lovely morning Dry warm And Sunny Hardly a cloud in the sky.


This Monday night 11th KO 745 Friendly farnborough against Pompey
has to be better than the TRIPE on TV

Farnborough 2 Hamble 0

FA-Cup . 2nd Qualifying Round .

Farnborough beat Hamble 2-0 with a goal in Each Half from
Bradley Bubb . An good match was enjoyed by 500 People
at Cherrywood road Stadium.

The Teams great the crowd
The teams shake Hands.
Hamble Team Photo

9th October 20010

Not Very much happening in and around the area this week .
Parts of Nothcamp Suffered a Bad power cut with some area
off for a few Hours.

Local Football

Farnborough V Hamble in the FA CAP At cherrywood road
K/O 3PM.

2nd October 2010

As always at this time very little going on in Farnborough
Movements at the Airfield has also Slackened.

Farnborough FC V Lewes.

Farnborough won the match 1 -o by a goal scored in the
first Half. A Rather Scappy game and a poor performance
by the Referee. A crowd of over 800 Saw the game .

The Teams and great each other (lewes In green)


The match was attended by the Ambassador for Nepal shown exchanging gifts
with the Farnborough Directors. Napal FC Play Farnborough tomorrow
3rd october at Cherrywood ground Kick 1300 admission is Free.

Update on Sainsburys 16/09/2010

The Cafe remains closed but work to restore it looks to be under way
all those injured have been released from Hospital . Health and safety
Executive were looking into what caused the boiler to Explode.

Sainsburys Explosion 14September 2010

Seventeen people have been injured after a coffee machine exploded at the
Sainsbury's supermarket in the new building at Kingsmead today at 1225pm.

Fire police and Ambulance went to the scene after an industrial coffee maker

Exploded Reported as a Ruptured Pipe. Some casualtys were taken to

frimly park Hospital with Face and Arm injuries.

The Supermarket remained closed untill mid Afternoon .the Cafe will be closed

untill furth notice to allow Health and Safety officers to conduct an Inquiry.

Farnborough Station

After Months of Delays , parking problems the 1st Phase in the
rebuilding of Farnborough Main Station Has been completed
With better facilitys for Passengers . Buses now Serve the
Station from the town center I think this is the first Time we
have had Buses serving the Station from the town although
Works coaches and a few other services have used it ,
Phase Two is the new Passenger Bridge with Lifts so that
Disabled Passengers can use the london platform instead
of going to FLEET or BROOKWOOD . Work is expected to
be complete by September 2011

04/09/2010 Fast Museum

Fast Museum A325 Farnborough road Farnborough


Exhibition About captured German aircraft during www2 is open to the public
from 1000 to 1600 Local Time september 4 th and 5th
Entry to the Museum and Exhibition is Free . Very limited carparking.
Nearest bus from Farnborough Station is The Number 1 get off by
the Collage and walk up the A235 Museum is by the SWAN Hotel

20/08/2010 Spotting at Farnborough

Farnborough spotting

The show buildings are being cleared very fast and the view from
Dairy gate A325 of the Ramp area Is once again available to
Spotters but please please take care when visiting there do not
Park or Enter the Hotel grounds at any time .Security are very
Hostile.

Eelmore bridge area Fleet road

This area is Favoured by local Spotters but carparking is very
limited . There is a litter problem there so please dont drop
Rubbish.

Fast Museum

Open at Weekends 1000 To 1600 And has very many exhibits
of Farnborough RAE Days , Some Ramp views and East apron
can be had . Car parking very Limited.

All other areas around the perimeter are really not suitable
for Spotters much is private property and you are advised
not to venture or park there.
If any doubt about where you are ask local Spotters or
join our Forums and email lists (click here)

Remember please do not leave your vehicle or property
in places that might be considered a security risk.

If You see anyone or anything that looks suspicious do not hesitate
DIAL 999 For the POLICE do not touch anything or go near

REMEMBER 999
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Weekend Airshows

Saturday and Sunday (21st – 22nd).

This Weekend there are 2 airshows for you to Enjoy. The First

at Shoreham airport on the south Coast. click AIRSHOW

The second show is at Bournemouth 'click ' . SEAFRONT

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday (19th – 22nd).

Vulcan XH558 RED ARROWS and loads of other items for you to
Enjoy .

20 August 2010 1940 70 years on

The 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain is being commemorated by
a reading of one of Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past.
Winston Churchill's "so much owed by so many to so few" speech will be
read at 1552 BST,precisely 70 years after he gave the address in Parliament.
The reading outside the Churchill War Rooms will be followed by a Spitfire
and Hurricane fly-past over Whitehall.

70th anniversary of Battle of Britain event Friday in which the Battle of Britain
memorial flight will take in overflights of all airfields involved.
the third flight of the day starts in Kent and heads across London
then heads south from Wycombe around 16 .15


full details

Biggin Hill – Take-off 1540

Cabinet War Offices (1600)

Hendon - 1603

Bentley Priory - 1606

High Wycombe - 1616

Lee on Solent - 1637

Thorney Island - 1644

Westhampnett - 1649

Tangmere - 1651

Ford - 1655

Uxbridge - 1715

Northolt – Land 1720

20.08.1940: Winston Churchill "Never in the field of human conflict was so
much owed by so many to so few"

August 11 2010

RAF Familys day at RAF ODIHAM

This Event is not open to the public is an Annual event
at RAF Stations .Military and Civilan aircraft are at the
Event including the BLADES , BBMF . Based Chinnoks
give Rides to Family members .

Subject to availability, serviceability etc.,

1330 Vigilant Glider Flypast Based 618 VGS
1340 Tornado GR4 Marham Wing x2 Allocated
1350 Chinook Role Demonstration [ZA670/AA]
1400 RAF Falcons Hercules FlyBy ?
1410 Hawk 4 FTS Union Tail
1420 Tutor VT Aerospace G-....
1430 AN2 HA-MKF ?
1440 BBMF All 3 ?
1505 Aerostars Yaks
1520 Tucano 2010 Air Display Colours ZF171,317
1528 MC130 Mildenhall Based Machine 352 SOG 66-0215
1533 Jet Provost XM479
1539 Blades Display Team Extra 300LP
1549 B17 Sally B

August 7 2010

The week up to today very little has occured post airshow
although on Tuesday and wednesday Dakota N147DC Was seen flying
through the Area . Owned by Aces High At Dunsfold one of 2 currently
flying in the UK.
At Farnborough during the week Eight wide body jets of Boeing and Airbus
types A318 A319 B737 BBJ Were present on the Tag Ramp.

A7-AAM Qatar Amiri Flight

A6-MRS Dubai Air Wing \royal Flight Dub 7

A6-HEH Dubai Air Wing \royal Flight Dub 6

A6- HRS Dubai Air Wing \royal Flight Dub4

A6-RJY Royal Jet ROJ2

P4-VNL Global Jet Luxembourg

G-NOAH Acropolis Aviation ACJ1 (Based At Farnborough)

N835BA Private owned

There are still a couple of aircraft left over from the show currently parked
on East apron . G-ORED left on Thursday.

Wednesday the area was deluged late morning Early pm by heavy
Thunderstorms which spread to many parts of the south causing
delays to Road Rail and air Travel.

The football season opened on the 7th with our 3 local sides in action

Accrington Stanly 0 Aldershot 0

Farnborough Town 2 Cambridge city 0

Woking 1 Luton 2,

29 and 30 july 2010

Not very much going on last 2 days so have been working
in the garden but i have to say at times very gingerly
as we have been Plagued by wasps in the house only
to discover 2 nests one on the house the other by my
shed. Very nasty as well so we went to B&q Got some
powder to blast em with . Up a ladder i goes in thick
gloves glasses hat no shorts just tracksuit bottems
and sprayed where they entered the house .yes
they got more upset and yes i got Stung but 24
hours later there gone . the shed well we were
cutting out a tree stump and yes hundreds of
very annoyed wasps .spayed powder on nest and
EXIT area bloody fast . All seems ok now but
not going to check.

28/07/2010

Lovely start to Day bright and sunny.

The BAE-SYS Terminal south 1 apron back in use this morning
with G-TBAE The Warton Shuttle and the Vickers Barrow
beech 200s such as G-CDFY in and out
A twice daily shuttle service thats been operating five days
a week with various types B200 J31 J41 ATP and the 146.

update on XH558 . New brake parts were being fitted but
so far have nt heard it Taxy for trial . Its due display 1615
at RNAS Culdrose this afternoon

UPDATE,

XH558 Departed Farnborough picture here at 1436
for Kemble then Culdrose
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RT @XH558: Display practice at Kemble complete,

continuing to RNAS Culdrose for display slot of 15:54 :

Farnborough show or lack of it ? MY View

This debate is going on on our forum but we seem to have drifted
off the real answer so here is my view you may not agree .
Farnborough Airshow is wrongly billed its not an air show as such but a trade Show
with a few hours of Demonstration flying tacked on and for two days it becomes a
general public airshow the likes of which can be seen at many airfields
and joe \jane Public love it Saturday proved that to me.
From the spotters point of view over the years things have got bad with
very few new types to see this year we got to see some even though they
were not at public days but spotters saw them all week goodness knows we gave
them enough information to get here log them.
So let me say Saturday was a very busy day i caught the service bus up no problem
and in just in time for the 318 landing from there you see what was wrong for us
not the visitor unless been before the static park in cases lack of one very poor
from last few shows but the casual visitor was more than happy crowds of people
everywhere and Few moans.
Exhibition was poor and even more was empty but again as a regular it served
my purpose I spent loads of time meeting and chatting to some great people
and we possibly will be having them join us one already has but then the public
view well look at the faces of the many children bags of posters books and more
, happy kids Happy parents . i sat in one area for the display one that you can see
at Biggin , Riat Southend etc etc Vintage and veteran
Flying mixed with A few Fast Jets A380 VULCAN REDS seen them many times but
joe public was Happy warm applause all round.
To Sum it up Farnborough shows will never be the same we all know that but the
public still attend they moan a little about prices but the vast majority of non spotters
went home happy.
All the roads and spaces roundabouts were full of people. People in the town
were talking airshow few moans about Traffic and noise but most said
ITS ONLY EVERY 2 YEARS we can
put up with it and its great to watch so there you are

SPOTTERS NOT HAPPY Yes you can understand that.

JOE\JANE PUBLIC MAJORITY HAPPY

Will they be there 2012 you bet your life they will be

t

XH558 UPDATE

Live from TWITTER (folow XH558)

RT @XH558: farnborough :Subject to brake unit being fitted and tested
in the morning, next flight ETD 1400,transit to Culdrose for display

So there is hope

27/07/2010

With TV-RADIO -Newpapers raming it down our throats all day today
about the olimpic game is exactly two Years away i fear its going
to end up boring the pants off us.
Farnborough show departures continued with the C17 and JF17
Departing along with the Islanders from the static park.
XH558 Was moved over to the north side no indication as whether
it will be Fixed for its display tomorrow .At time of writing
this things do not good as its still here.
Tag Aviation Traffic getting back to normal steady traffic
all Day


G-ORED Was formally with the Red Devils Parachute team .And was seen
regular in the farnborough and Aldershot Queens avenue Strip . Colour
Scheme then was red.

Wetherspoons new Pub

Many of you will have noticed that Wetherspoons have taken units under
the hotel in Victoria Road . Work was well under way but suddenly it
all Stopped We suspect this was due to planning\hours problems.
Noted today that a new licence application has been placed outside
so perhaps work will again Get under way.

Monday 26 july 2010

Cloudy start to the morning with light rain on and off . First day after
the Airshow sees the Aicraft leaving and support aircraft arriving.
A usaf C17 Transport arrived mid morning to collect a helicopter .
Pakistan Airforce C130 Has arrived with support for J-17s.
Great deal of coming and goings not just Airshow aicraft but the
BIZ Traffic in and out of TAG Aviation farnborough uk.
By late afternoon only 3 aircraft remain on the show side

credit Darren on our EMAIL List

For info:
2 x JF-17's are parked to the right of the C130 looking from the Swan.

JF-17 on the Static park

2 x F18's are on the West Apron

The only things left in the show side are N7SJ
OO-EBE, G-CVXN and N208AE are parked on the East apron.

And vulcan XH558 which suffered brake failure and not flown on Sunday
XH558 Parked on east apron on saturday 24th

Airshow end

Well thats the Airshow over for another Two years .Days of thrilling flying displays.

Here the A380 Is pulled along the runway to start the show .Large crowds
attended the public days on Saturday and sunday in high tempertures .
Prices for refreshments as always were very High portion of chips up to Three
pounds and beer three pounds fifty or more tea and coffee two pounds in
some areas.
Flying was good but not up to Displays of old many aicraft listed as being
there left before the public days .


Farnborough now returns to sleep because very little else Ever goes on here.
Our new shopping center has opened without the vast array of shops ,cinemas ,bingo hall and more that had been said to be coming .We thought at time wishful thinking
Just Sainsburys open a new Store . and Poundland In the woolworths old store.
The area near that is still a boarded up area of demolished shops seemingly to be rebuilt in Time.