Fabulous FARNBOROUGH Forty-Eight

The first SBAC display at Farnborough, 70 years ago this year, set the tone for much that followed FARNBOROUGH AT 70 70th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Much in British aviation has changed, but Farnborough, somehow, is a constant. ‘Somehow’ seems apposite, because one might think there are better venues at which to stage Britain’s major aerospace showcase — larger airfields, certainly, with far less urban encroachment, and thus the chance of hosting flying displays of a more unrestricted nature than are possible