Regarding the participation of "inappropriate" air forces, I omitted to say that, thankfully, "At Home Day" organisors thoughtfully failed to hear the words of the "participation committee" and went ahead with their Luftwaffe contacts. Likewise the secretary of said committee, arranged for "non available" assets to route through the original Greenham Common Airshows- not participate,as such - and it became the biggest military show outside of the States. Russian Bears, or whatever, at UK Military airshows need not be an impossibility.
Sorry for thread creep, I suppose I'm just a little jealous that I wasn't an air defender and never got the chance to look the "enemy" in the eye.
