Today's weather does not look very promising. Brize is giving:
EGVN 270438Z 270606 VRB07KT 9000 -RA BKN008 TEMPO 0606 6000 RA BKN006 PROB40 TEMPO 0618 2500 +RA BKN004 BECMG 1417 01020G30KT BECMG 2023 BKN016 BECMG 0003 36012KT
However, if Jervis Media try to blame the undoubted flop this farce will prove to be on low cloud and heavy rain, that will be yet another lie.
Not normally given to schadenfreude, I can't help thinking that this absurd event was doomed from the start. An air show is an air show is an air show... Nothing else.
Nor would it have been difficult to arrange some participation from Brize-based aircraft, given the fact that this event was postponed from last summer.
However, it is the RAF squirearchy who are chiefly to blame. The low profile the RAF has these days has meant that the nation's yoof, bar the Air Training Corps, is no longer 'air-minded'. A giimmick-ridden overpriced nonsense such as 'Spirit of Adventure' is not going to restore air-mindedness in the UK's youngsters.
I have copies of the RAF 'At Home' day brochure produced for RAF Merryfield in 1953 and 1954. This was just one At Home day of many, held at a small training aerodrome in Somerset. Yet the quality and variety it manged to provide far outstripped the paltry efforts which seem to be all that the RAF - with or without the efforts of Jervis Media - can manage 43 years later.
How glad I am that I was around to enjoy the At Home days of the 1960s...
Last edited by BEagle; 27th May 2007 at 06:46.