yanks and no Vulcan
and no RAF support helicopters either. No Chinook, no RAF Merlin and God only knows what has happened to the Mk2 Puma. Apart from one pilot on a KC10 that had eighteen days before being struck off charge there were no RAF aircrew to discuss any points on any of the aircraft on the static display. The result was queues of an hour or so to look in the two or three that were open.
The Red Arrows, down to eight, had the same show as last year because there's not a lot else they can do. The B of B flight the same though to see the Lancaster fly is to me still a great sight. You had to hand it to the civvy aerobatic teams using aircraft built for the job for their displays and also the various vintage aircraft organisations.
The non stop Tornados of various nationalities were impressive but as a show to present the Royal Air Force as a whole I felt it was disappointing.