LOMCEVAK - I couldn't disagree more strongly with the 'flying was poor' bit - the flying was on the whole highly entertaining, though the MiG-29 was put on too early as nobody could hold a candle to him for sheer enjoyment though the Typhoon came close.
What was poor was the gaps between each act - in the past you'd have the next act already in the air or holding near the end of the runway when the previous act finishes, not so this year. Often it seemed the next act was hiding behind a hangar somewhere, would meander lazily towards the runway and then sit there for a few minutes to boot.
The schedule was not held to very well (particularly on Sunday when it seemed nobody had any idea what was next, and the published programme was pure fiction) either. If you're just camped out watching the flying that doesn't matter so much but if you wanted to see the static and picked a time of day that didn't have anything flying of interest to you, you were bound to find your favourite act taking to the air just at the point you were 2 miles away from the crowdline and knee deep in rivet counters. No doubt the schedule changes were out of anybody's control but there were just so many of them!
I have heard others moan that the display did not include a wide enough representation of the 100 years of flight theme - I wasn't that bothered, RIAT's always been more about jet noise than prop jobs. But it'd have been nice to see some formations to mark the theme - Spitfire & Typhoon perhaps, Gnat & Hawk, Sea Fury, Sea Vixen & Sea Harrier (I can dream!), etc. With so many F-16s and Tornados in the display the lack of other types did show up a bit.
Sounds like quite a moan that lot but overall I enjoyed the show a lot and none of the flying was 'poor'!