This forum is hardly the right place for RIAT incident.........BAs 777 was swanking around, as well as other commercial aircraft. I personally was quite relieved that there was a delay to the displays (thank god no-one was hrt of course), because I was one of the poor souls who (stupidly) chose the blue route M4 via Siwndon and it took 5 hours to do ? 15 miles. Despite leaving very early it was very frustrating how poorly the anticipated traffic was managed. Being back at Fairford where the access was so much better than Cottesmore, how on earth did it end up so appalling. The worst was listening to Jenny Catt on Vulcan radio 87.7 (commentating the show) who was brightly telling everyone how all the routes in Fairford were all moving. Couldn't get through to the d@*n station either to tell her what rot.
So finally arriving at 1330 when it should have been much much earlier, managed to catch the bulk of the displays, they even reran Eames Glider performance, which is just so beautiful to watch, and luckily the wx played fair game and all managed to to do full displays. An added bonus was the breathtaking B-12 over from Missouri with it's escort of 4 (this time) F15s who had to fly a little lower because of cloudbase. Awesome.
Congrats on the Red Arrows (do these guys have the luck or not, after some really nasty potential CBs and very low black clouds it all blew away to blue skies when they took off) Some excellent manoeuvres, and especially the Jubilee ? burst ?, very very good.