Originally Posted by
welshwaffu
Shoreham was pretty bad but if this accident was repeated now, the show would be cancelled, there would be a public inquiry, questions in the house and a day of national mourning. 70 years ago, they just got on with it.
Indeed they did....! As I recall the display was up and running again in less than an hour. Think my memory is correct; it was Neville Duke in a Hunter who was "next on parade". Remember the "sound barrier" being broken at the show. There had been an earlier incident when the Prestwick Pioneer clipped a mast with loudspeakers on it. There was some minor damage to the tailplane....