Gentlemen,
Can we not just have a reasonable discussion without degenerating into snide comments, please?
Ref the comments on the Dutch airshow. Yes it would be nice if the RAF could do a similar thing. However, the sharp end has been effectively at war for over 20 years.
That is where the efforts are going, not into showboating. Please give the guys and girls credit for their sustained efforts into doing the bidding of our politicians.
Whether that bidding is right or wrong is nothing to do with this thread.
Finally, as a spotter of some 50+ years, I tend to side with Beagle re some of my fellow spotters. I never knew so many overweight 30 year old men flew 100 missions+
in Vietnam (or so their badges say). As with all things, it's the few that get to many tarnished.
End of rant, and swift move to garden to dig a slit trench to avoid the incoming.....