Well I have just about dusted myself down. Was there for a whole week & very lucky with the weather. The MV section was only a quarter of the size of the commercial section and space being at a premium tents were restricted to one military tent no greater than appx 9x9 ft & no caravans. This made the display 100% military & allowed the max number of entries.
I am pleased to say we had neither of the two regular military units. That may sound strange but the RTR unit usually have an AFV for kids to climb over, as they have been next to us the vehicle climbing spills over into our vehicles. In previous years the RS detachment have been plonked into our limited space & would selfishly run their generator into the small hours so troops could place video games on the comms PCs. So I am glad they weren’t there.
Only took a couple of pics. I think the clumping together of vehicle types looked more impressive like the two ferrets were next to each other and so were these two things.
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Living in the cipher trailer I like to nose out of my barred windows to see what’s going on, but my fear is having my daylight blocked out by some massive lorry. I got away with it this year by inviting an airfield tug to park next to me.
The MV section is just in front of the vehicle arena, so throughout the day we were inhaling fumes of petrol, deisel, paraffin & soot not to mention the inevitable dust. Hay/fume fever seemed to hit many of us & seemed worse this year with stinging eyes. I tried various official remedies (a-histamines, beconase, eye drops, wearing sunglasses), eating a whole orange (not at once, in pieces but the rind as well) nothing seemed to help. But the final day was slightly cooler but I resorted to buying some “bee pollon” the previous deay which seemed to avoid the symptoms amazingly.
The on-site radio station played predominantly stuff of 40 years ago which suited me fine. But it did go down hill once the show opened on the Wed. This is understandable as the advertising increased enormously but we had endless interviews with various people including nit-wits telling us how many years they have been coming to the show & why the have come this year. Yes I know it’s good, that’s why I was there!
This was the other thing that caught my eye.
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Yes I know what you are thinking it’s a JA 2069 that replaced the JA 5693. But if you look at the windows you will see it is the later version of the Tent, Marquee, Universal, GS, Double J1/8340-99-942-4590.
Question 1: How many man & how long to erect?
Question 2: For what purpose was it erected at GDSF?