There are a few references above to "busting his MSD of 100'agl". Now in my day doing low level aeros in the RAF, in something as mundane as a JP (but applied to all jets at least), the 100' MSD only applied to "flypasts"... in turn effectively the intial run in to the display, and/or a flypast descending from essentially level flight.
For aerobatic manoeuvres, the MSD was 500' i.e. where judgement / luck / skill was used to make a "hard(ish) pull" to level flight.
Can anyone confirm that is is still the case? I cannot believe that FJs are now displaying to 100' MSD from genuine aerobatic manoeuvres?
The above is not related to the RIAT incident. However, if the above is confirmed, then it seems the RIAT incident maybe did not make 100' into 25', but 500' ?