Originally Posted by
mmitch
Now the Hawk T1 is obsolete elsewhere, it's hard to justify the Reds as representing British industry.
A flypast over the Mall ending with a Typhoon formation once a year will remind the public what the RAF is now.
mmitch.
A single ship DH-82A would then be more appropriate, surely?
Placing the team on a pedestal is asking for normalisation of deviation. In many airforces, the demonstration team is operational and do additional demo duties. That may not be ideal, but placing the crew in a position of privilege is asking for consequences.
The other top tier teams have less bad
PR, but it is not certain they also don't have issues underneath.