John's old enough to know better, to expect banter and to show a bit more common sense.
I knew John LeB at Scampton in the late '70s when he was a Sqn Ldr at the Vulcan Group Standards Unit. Straight as a die and someone who one greatly respected - and in whom most pilots were very much in awe, particularly if they didn't want a tough GSU oral during the annual visit! So I find it highly disrespectful for certain people on this thread to treat him like some ignorant troll. He expressed his opinion; I don't happen to share it, but he's entitled to make it without the slings and arrows of unjustified rudeness expressed by some.
It's a pity that John found the RAF 100th anniversary function in Lincoln so unsatisfactory - I'm sure he would have enjoyed one of the Newark Museum V-force reunions far more! A lot of people attended who he would have known in his service time.