Well, it sounds as though it was a pretty underwhelming static display at one of the few front line fighter bases still in existence. No fault of the organisers though, I would imagine.
In contrast, here’s what RAF Merryfield, a little AFS in Somerset, was able to put on static display 50 years ago on 19 Sep 1953:
Vampire 5
Vampire T11
Chipmunk
Wyvern
Prentice
Oxford
Lincoln
Canberra
Varsity
Provost
Harvard
Meteor
Dragonfly
Anson
Meteor NF11
Expediter
Viking
Pembroke
That’s the sort of static which virtually every RAF aerodrome was capable of putting on back then – and it certainly encouraged many youngsters to want to join. When I was holding at Biggin Hill in 1977, we moved a filing cabinet, from behind which appeared an old memo. Dated some time in the 1950s, it included the sentence “Of the 34 stations in Home Command holding Battle of Britain Open Days in Southern England........”. That was just one command in one part of England. Surely the RAF must be able to do better these days for its ‘shareholders’?