Don't wish to be a party pooper, love the RAF, served for ages in it and am very proud of it and fiercly protective of the armed forces in general. Not only that but I saw the tail end of it over Shipdham yesterday in Norfolk as I was driving through and it was very impressive.
However, I would have thought that with UK forces people dying in 'stan because we can't afford the helicopters to keep them safe, that the money spent on this annual flypast and the practice flypasts beforehand could be better spent on other things.
Just one viewpoint and fully expecting to be comprehensively shot down, but as both of my nephews are serving army people and one is in 'stan and one in Kosovo I may have an even stronger viewpoint if the unthinkable happens to either of them.
Doc C