FLEET AIR ARM MUSEUM YEOVILTON – 13^th February 2010

We again put on a good display of 21 models from 8 modellers. Models ranged from Motor Torpedo Boats to a Battleship.

As in previous years we were displaying in the Swordfish Centre which is external to the main museum. We were allocated the usual 2 free display tables and paid for an extra 6, this gave us a total of 8, but we still needed to use a number of our own to give us more display area.

This year the show authorities introduced a system, where as only 5 fleet entries per club were allowed to visit the main museum area, anyone else wanting to get into the main museum to buy from the traders or just to look around, had to purchase a ticket at a discounted price of £9.00.

I will be writing to the show authorities and complaining about this, as I felt it cost enough with fuel costs these days to get to the show without being asked to pay an entry fee after you have taken the trouble to display your models. At the end of the day without the models they would not have a show.

I would like to thank Dave Reith, Chris Hooper, Colin Watson, Peter Gilpin, Roy Skeats, Charles Davis and John Edwards for displaying their models and Ken Winter for coming along and helping to man the stand.

Steve Bullock