ACW367 - you may be right but there has certainly been a relatively 'large' flypast since 1990. Can't remember the occasion but certainly remember the sight from the Mighty Hunter's beam window. It looked like a WWII dogfight movie as the RAF's finest collection of (very) dis-similar types turned, climbed and/or descended while adjusting speeds like mad to get (relatively) assembled prior to bimbling up the mall. The wetties reckoned they could have got a direct hit with a yoghurt from the C or D launcher :)
Don't forget the mandatory practice days that the boys and girls would have needed before some Duty Holder would have signed it off. Doing display/flypast stuff was fun but still meant a working weekend so well done to all involved.

Aside from the lack of combat a/c, the other thing I wondered was why the 146 was put behind the C17 - looked like a bit of an uncomfortable ride!

It wasn't the C17 causing the uncomfortable ride. That suffered from the same turbulent air, just to a lesser degree.

Half watched it b for a few seconds as I was at work but I thought it an appropriate flypast in keeping for our leaner times. I actually didn't know we had some of those aircraft. Why no UAV? (because face it they're the future) (unless I missed it - serious question is it not allowed to fly alongside other aircraft etc?
Agree with some the Royals looked a bit too over dressed and blingy - need to stow the uniforms and wear gongs they genuinely deserve.

I'm sure that in the planning for the flypast the Standard Turbulence Separation Distances were applied for each category of aircraft? Either that or the elements were 500/1000ft vertically separated? Flying 30 seconds behind a Voyager or an Atlas, at the same height, is most probably not too comfortable