tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post7610200520619496122..comments2023-09-06T22:30:02.061+10:00Comments on The Knight & Drummer: Hero PornAmfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-69229793811672412282019-03-15T10:50:23.896+11:002019-03-15T10:50:23.896+11:00Farnbro is British tradition: modern, may be, but ...Farnbro is British tradition: modern, may be, but it has longevity and deep commercial and military history. It would be a pity to lose such a world-reknowned event. But one can argue that the need to showcase British aircraft design has diminished over the years, as those designs have all but disappeared. <br /><br />Crashes are punctuation marks. Aircraft push the envelope and inevitability rules. No-one in the Fraternity would see that as a stopper though. It takes pencilnecks not leathernecks to stop a good airshow.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-28586277112958703152019-03-15T10:37:29.415+11:002019-03-15T10:37:29.415+11:00From 2020 Farnborough Air Show is stopping its pub...From 2020 Farnborough Air Show is stopping its public air displays...<br /><br />https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2019-03-05/farnborough-airshow-scraps-public-displays/<br /><br />https://www.fac.org.uk/farnborough-air-show-2020<br /><br />I suspect it is more to do with the Shoreham air display crash in 2015. This brought tighter restrictions on where aircraft can fly and large areas are out of bounds when there is an airshow display. Health and safety 'Rules'. The cost of organising this is probably (I don't know) placed on the display organisers leading to flight displays at public events being financially unviable?CherryPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11788084724907992076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-5138851784734318292019-03-13T23:40:37.271+11:002019-03-13T23:40:37.271+11:00Yes son was well pleasing: and heroes are sometime...Yes son was well pleasing: and heroes are sometimes cut down in their prime. Mike and Dave were fine men doing more than just what they loved but keeping fine machines doing what they do. <br /><br />I hope someone else, well heeled, can take over.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-43971451120105961122019-03-13T23:38:31.448+11:002019-03-13T23:38:31.448+11:00Comment from.....
James Higham
I hope the trip wa...Comment from.....<br />James Higham<br /><br />I hope the trip was good and son was well pleasing to you.<br /><br />Tried to post a comment but it swallowed it up:<br /><br />“The right stuff is undoubted, the derring do is undoubted, the machines are magnifico.<br /><br />There is just this ‘closed after fatal crash’ bit which gets in the way.”Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com