CAA emasculates Farnborough FIA16
Emasculated? Hardly.
Contrary to popular belief, the afternoon flying display is fairly incidental to Farnborough's raison d'être, that's to say the deals done and relationships cemented in the hospitality chalets after a boozy lunch. All those noisy fast jets doing aerobatics and commercial jets performing manoeuvres that they will never do in service are, frankly, a bit of a distraction from the business in hand.
So while the unwashed masses (including yours truly) are going to miss the aerial stunts, the show organisers and the exhibitors aren't going to lose any sleep if the Red Arrows are reduced to doing just a series of flypasts.