Originally Posted by
212man
I did my Flying Scholarship with Marshals at Cambridge in the summer of 1985. One Sunday, as we sat outside on the grass in the sunshine, we were treated to quite a spectacular A10 arrival and display. Cut short after Cambridge ATC got through to Duxford to tell them one of their ‘acts’ was misplaced! I had the opposite the following year at the Barton Airshow when we were told by the commentator that the F15 display was actually taking place at Woodford….
I was at the Farnborough air show the year that a USAF B-52 display was announced as inbound, having flown across the Atlantic to display there. As the commentary began, we noticed a large vertical stabiliser in the distance as it instead displayed at Blackbushe.