Well, if its any consolation guys, its not only Farnborough but every air show from now on for all eternity. Yesterdays American Air force Museum show at Duxford was a disaster for those that frequent the areas south of the airfield during displays. There were security road blocks everywhere along the roads leading to the fields, motorcycles cops patroling and moving along anyone who managed to get through the first few road block minefields. It was impossible to get in there, and a couple of people who managed to get as far as a field were within minutes escorted out. The "this is a public road" argument didn't work, you weren't even able to be on the main public road to the south of Duxford, so much so, that I witnessed the Duxford security guy pulled up in his car along side one of the fields, waiting for one of his colleagues who had gone into the fields to escort out tresspassers. Motorcycle cop, pulls up, tells everyone to move on pronto, or else. The Duxford security guy flashes his official tag thats hanging from his neck, and says "I'm the Duxford secuity officer and I'm waiting for my colleague to bring people out from the field, I drafted the security rules for Duxford ! ", to which the cop replies "I don't care, I'm here to move any people or vehicles from this road, you move your vehicle now !" , to which the Duxford guy had to drive away there and then. I did catch up to him later at the road block and told him I thought the cop was out of order for treating him like that. It just proved how strict they were about enforcing the regulation. Many people settled for a field outside the cordoned off area which was miles away and on the other side of the M11 which was rather pointless. One of the motorcycle cops, when we had finished a heated discussion and calmed down, told me that he was doing the same duty at Old Warden/Shuttleworth next week also. So this is a permanent state of affairs from now on at all air shows.