Originally Posted by
LOONRAT
Re competition - some air displays (IAT as an example) offer a prize for the best display - subtle external pressure here at play !!!!
I trust you mean the various Trophies for the best this and that, has there ever been any indication that someone has felt sufficiently inadequate having seen some of the competition, that they then decided to embellish their own sequence? There is of course the unavoidable matter of weather restrictions on the day. I've seen at many displays, IAT/RIAT particularly, when one F-16 is forced to fly a flat display each day, while another gets the full window, each day.
FB