Originally Posted by
Herod
Modern hindsight, yes, but remember these people had lived through a war very recently. The ethos back then was "just get on with it".
We always used to do that at Farnborough in my day; I witnessed the S67 crash in 1974 and we just continued with the flying to try and take the spectators mind off it; also with the Buffalo although that caused the runway to be closed and hence curtailed the show.