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Each year Airscene asks its visitors to choose their favourites from the UK airshow scene. The top 3 nominations in each category are then shortlisted for a further round of voting in order to determine the best in each category.<\/p>\n
This years votes have now been counted and counted again and the winners can now be announced…<\/p>\n
Yeovilton Air Day won Best Airshow<\/strong> this year, closely followed by RAF Cosford Airshow in 2nd place and Royal International Air Tattoo in 3rd place. RIAT has now appeared in the top 3 for the 3rd consecutive year.<\/p>\n The Best FREE Airshow<\/strong> category has in previous years seen a bit of southcoast rivalry going on between Bournemouth and Eastbourne with Eastbourne taking the crown every time (last year receiving 65% of the votes). This year see’s Eastbourne remain in the top 3 but rather robustly put in its place by Bournemouth Air Festival who have been voted Best FREE Airshow this year.<\/p>\n The feedback from voters praising Bournemouth’s efforts show that they have raised their game, as Amanda Lawrence from Bournemouth states “We have been to every show since it began & it just improves year after year! (Weather permitting!)<\/em>“<\/p>\n Laura Edwards says<\/p>\n “Bournemouth air show is the best free air show I have ever been to.<\/em><\/p>\n Bournemouth organises this event and promotes it well too. They ensure everyone is safe and having fun.<\/em><\/p>\n The traffic is well organised, sign posted etc and the council even make sure there is not a spot of litter the morning after each day on the beach. Bournemouth free air show deserves to win!”<\/em><\/p>\n And it did Laura! Whilst the weather clearly has a big part to play, these comments serve to show it is the dedication and hardwork of the teams behind these events which keep them in the top 3.<\/p>\n Sunderland Air Show came 2nd whilst Eastbourne held on in 3rd place.<\/p>\n No Contest in the Best Display Team<\/strong> category with the Red Arrows scooping the majority of the votes for the 3rd year running. The Blades made a bit of a dent in the Red’s popularity and placed 2nd but there can be no doubts that the Red Arrows are firmly rooted in the public’s affections.<\/p>\n Runner Up last year, the RAF Chinook had a close run battle this year with Vulcan XH558, and secured 1st place as Best Solo Display<\/strong> by a margin of only 21 votes. Airscene loves the Vulcan but is not surprised by the Chinook taking first place – the display just keeps on evolving with pirhouettes, pedal turns and nose down quick stops… All that is left to say is Wokka Wokka Wokka…<\/p>\n Finally… RAF Museum Cosford have beaten IWM Duxford to be crowned Best Aviation Museum<\/strong> 2013 by just 9 votes! Cosford also won this category in 2011, however were the only museum nominated that year. 3rd place went to the Fleet Air Arm Museum who scooped 30% of the votes – all in all a very tight category this year.<\/p>\n A full breakdown of the voting can be seen at: www.airscene.co.uk\/airscene-awards-2013.php<\/a><\/p>\n Thankyou to the teams behind the Airshows, Museums and Displays Teams for educating and entertaining us over the last 12 months.<\/p>\n And Thankyou to all who voted this year, and for giving a little something back in recognition of the hard work and dedication of all those shortlisted.<\/p>\n Have a Merry Christmas and a Great 2014!<\/p>\n Ian<\/p>\n Airscene<\/p>\n (Photo credit: BBC News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each year Airscene asks its visitors to choose their favourites from the UK airshow scene. The top 3 nominations in each category are then shortlisted for a further round of voting in order to determine the best in each category. This years votes have now been counted and counted again and the winners can now … Continue reading Airscene Awards 2013<\/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":[17],"tags":[143,23,171],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news-uk","tag-143","tag-airscene","tag-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}