The bigger question still for me is why the pilot attempted the maneuver outside of the airfield boundary in the first place.

Normally any display maneuver is aimed at crowd centre unless its a re-positioning which he had already completed.

So it appears to me he was too early, too low and too slow.

I recall my dad telling me how he once flew to France from Lydd in a Bristol freighter, with his Mk 2 Jaguar.

Must have been some experience, and some cost…Don’t think you’d fit too many cars and passengers

To me sat on the beach in front of the wish tower, the flight line appeared to be as usual, as did the flying display, with some quite low action.

Just not so many arrived around Beachy Head as before, possibly because of their routing from Biggin Hill, Lydd, Headcorn etc.
I see those that were temporarily based at Shoreham came round Beachy head.

Pity when you click on the front page it fails to navigate to the correct page

I wonder what the average age is of the pilots on the show circuit?
My guess would be that there are more older display pilots than young display pilots, which means that there is more chance of an older pilot being involved in an incident.

I consider 63 to be old

Age is dependent on the individual. I’m 55 and raced motorbikes when I was in my early 20’s, started again in 2010 and enjoy racing at the sharp end regularly getting top 10 out of a field of 40 with ages spread from late teens right through with more than 1 old wrinkly beating the youngsters.
Exhibiting a fast jet at an airshow should not require lightning reactions, whereas the potential to flying fast jets in combat is a different scenario and is more about risk and reaction.
I believe Martin Withers was a tad older than 63 when displaying the Vulcan, the RAF appeared to accept the risk of formation flying with the Red Arrows as acceptable.

It’s a sad fact that on many of the forums that the theme seems to be more about what the airshow goers /photographers / enthusiasts are set to lose and not one mention of the real victims in this, the 11 families watching each of their loved ones milestones going by birthdays,Father’s Day, anniversaries etc.

This topic I believe is discussing the impact that any new ruling may have on future air displays, not whether the Shoreham incident was or was not a tragedy, which it clearly was.
I don’t know the statistics, but would imagine similar numbers of deaths each day occur in road accidents, but they fail generally make the national news, let alone make generic ruling or banning one particular model of car for a poor safety record, or scrapping all cars without airbags, let alone those old cars without seat belts and poor brakes.

Any incident should be investigated, and some important discoveries and recommendations have been made. The authorities need to weigh up the risk of another incident and it’s possible prevention, but risks must be scrutinized and some risks have to be acknowledged.
Planes can and do fall out of the sky for all sorts of reasons, but it must be considered an acceptable risk to overfly a city such as London by an airliner as its one of the main approaches to Heathrow. It is all a balance.

I’m sure if the helicopter that hit the crane a few years ago had actually killed more than 2 people then the resulting recommendations would have been far more severe.

I am also surprised by this, I would have thought every display would have a scheduled series of manoeuvres.

No jackets, but I have bought a couple of nose art panels from http://www.farlamairframes.co.uk/

They recreate nose art on small aircraft scraps that are the same type as the nose art was originally from.

I have no interest in the business, but just enjoy the product. If the mods think this is inappropriate then please remove.