{"id":1646,"date":"2018-06-27T10:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:09:34","slug":"cockpit-fest-a-resounding-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/cockpit-fest-a-resounding-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockpit Fest a Resounding Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-18\/Lanc-cockpit.jpg\" alt=\"Lancaster Cockpit at Newark Air Museum Cockpit Fest\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cockpit-Fest 2018 proved to be another great event at the Newark Air Museum site in eastern Nottinghamshire. For the second year running the museum arranged for the Cockpit-Fest and Aeroboot display areas to be located alongside each other on the Southfield Site. With a better defined layout this year the event ran smoothly and seemed to draw many positive comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The museum trustees were particularly thankful to a host of people: all of the Cockpiteers and Exhibitors, their friends and families; the Aeroboot stall holders; the museum staff, aircraft openers and volunteers who helped during the build-up, during and after the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Support for this year\u2019s event came from the following people and organisations:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ken Ellis (\u2018Wrecks &amp; Relics \u2013 Spirit of Cockpit-Fest\u2019 Awards)<br \/>\nThe Museum Shop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once again there was a diverse range of cockpits and supporting displays on show and everyone who displayed at the event was a winner and a credit to this wonderfully diverse hobby. Below are this year\u2019s official results<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Grand Champion (Visitors Award) \u2013 Jet Provost T.4, XS176, Morayvia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visitors Award Non-Cockpit \u2013 jointly awarded to Mainly Military Models and the Control grips, yokes &amp; panels display by Martyn Steele &amp; Ian Hodgkiss<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cockpiteers Cockpit Award \u2013 jointly awarded to Vampire T.11, XE921, Steve Austin and Hunter FGA.9, XE597, Robert Dunn\/ Worcestershire Aviation Society<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cockpiteers Award Non-Cockpit \u2013 Women At War, Karen Wilson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wrecks &amp; Relics Spirit of Cockpit-Fest Award (Ken Ellis) \u2013 Starduster, G-BNNA, South Yorkshire Air Museum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wrecks &amp; Relics Spirit of Cockpit-Fest Award (Ken Ellis) \u2013 Lancaster S for Sugar project<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newark Air Museum Spirit of Cockpit-Fest Award \u2013 Shackleton AEW.2, WL756 \u2018Mr Rusty\u2019, G\u00e9rard Prudon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We would like to add a special thank you to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight for their excellent Spitfire flypasts on both days and to 301 (Bury St Edmunds) Squadron ATC Squadron for their car parking duties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cockpit-Fest will be back with a 2019 event, date to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkairmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.newarkairmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cockpit-Fest 2018 proved to be another great event at the Newark Air Museum site in eastern Nottinghamshire. For the second year running the museum arranged for the Cockpit-Fest and Aeroboot display areas to be located alongside each other on the Southfield Site. With a better defined layout this year the event ran smoothly and seemed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/cockpit-fest-a-resounding-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cockpit Fest a Resounding Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[295,46,184,10],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-295","tag-june","tag-newark-air-museum","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}