Why the surprise?
There is, after all, a ban on aerobatics by "vintage jets". Time for the Reds to get some new ones?
Perhaps the organisers could rescue our sorry nation's reputation from ignominy by putting on a display by a formation Spitfires, ie very much older and far less reliable aircraft with dodgy old piston engines that are apparently so much safer than jets that they can fly aerobatics at airshows willy-nilly entirely immune to third party damage.
Or perhaps someone could sack the witless imbeciles in the CAA who came up with this irrational "vintage jets" idiocy and also the spineless, brain-dead crustacea in the fuggen RAF that have followed the Campaign Against Aviation's craven lead.
Or, as suggested earlier, just cancel Farnborough and all other airshows and retreat into a cocoon of cotton wool and stay there until we all suffocate on the flatulence of the NIMBYS and the health and safety Nazis. It makes me want to puke.
Rant over...
FOR SHAME!