B(I)8,
Said;
...."they help provide a source of professionally competent ground crews and pilots that are imbude with skills and flair tempered with discipline. Isn't that what the RAF is about?"......
Yes, but they provide this for a display team, the public perception of the RAF is more akin to a reaction to Stormshadow strikes on Iraq and bombing the place for ten years.
If some poor sod is inspired to join the RAF as groundcrew based on what he/she sees of the Arrows then they wil have a real shock just after passing out of Cosford!