I agree with all/most comments classic jet preservation isn’t what it should be, and as much as i love seeing the spitfires and classics i am a classic jet man at heart.
Its all easy to say what we could and couldn’t do, jets are very expensive to operate which is why we’ve seen them dwindle, i can sadly see the flying hunter population sadly declining due to operating costs, but still there is a healthy population, we have a lovely collection of de-Havilland’s in this country with classic flight and my beloved vampire preservation group, were a small group yet we achieve an awful lot. The gnat display team does a great job on the gnats and we of course have the sabre and countless jet provosts. Plus we have 3 airworthy meteors (2 in private hands) yes it would be fantastic to see more, but jets are so hugly expensive. I can’t see there being too many more appear on the scene and i just hope we keep what we have and also ensure the Canberra makes a return, as well as the sea vixen.
We have an awful lot to treasure and there’s only so much money on the circuit, look how many classic jets go to air shows, not enough, and that’s because there very expensive to operate. The more we have the less money there is to go around. The vampire and classic flight alone were dropped from waddo due to the budget.
The controversial Vulcan takes a lot of money out of the air show pot sadly.
Just my two pence worth here and not views of any other group/organisation etc
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