Bob,
When I gotten my degree results literally week before Farnborough the other decade
first thing I did was rush down in a suit and several cvs mid week bought a trade ticket on the gate unfortunately didn't get a chance to finish everything by end of play that day! Prior to that had always attended Tatar dys g Farnborough by the grace of someone's spare pass!
So figured I go on the Sunday (big mistake ) and the one and only time I ventured onto public day and milled around the proposed USCG HH-139 Deepwater mock up and was exchanging details with the then Bell Agusta rep only to be interrupted by a large family (+8) descended around me and fired a barrage of questions before rep business card found its way into my paws! So the guy inadvertantly politely turned away from me and gave the large family (led by a generously proportioned gypsy type lady who was doing the shouting). Funny question she asked did it fly considering it was a mock up minus blades