This thread is the most fun I have had since my Grandmother caught her t*t in the mangle.
Mike wsm, you are more at risk of being mown down by Lord Lucan riding Shergar, with the Holy Grail tucked under his arm, than you are of witnessing a disaster due to the Red Arrows arrival techniques.
Lighten up, for God's sake man. If you had been at Kitty Hawk beach in 1903, those pesky bicycle mechanic chaps would have been banned from experimenting with their strange machine.
The Arrows are demonstrating the same skills that generations of RAF pilots have honed in peacetime in order to protect the burghers of Weston super Mud & other outposts of the Empire in times of conflict with those foolish enough to tangle with the Royal Air Force. You and I may not even be here if this were not so.
So, man up, fly the flag, put the RAF Marchpast & The Dambusters on your wind-up HMV gramophone & have a nip of whisky in honour of & gratitude to those who have done & still do, defend this Sceptred Isle.
Per Ardua ad Astra
HB
Last edited by Halton Brat; 2nd Oct 2012 at 12:59.