Mig15, how true.
I watched it as a kid back on grainy old 405-line Band 1 black-and-white TV and saw the last one in 1999.
It went the same way as Freedom parades, At Home days and all the other things we used to do well. Because there weren't enough people left in the Armed Services, thanks to cut after cut inflicted by governments of either hue - and which went unrptested by the yes-men at the top...
This link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/171263.stm implied that 'something' was supposed to replace the Royal Tournament. So what was it? Tony Bliar's successive come-as-you-are wars? Or did they mean that abortion 'Spirit of (mis)Adventure'?