I went to the IAT at Boscombe Down twice in ’90 and ’92, they stopped holding it at BD after this and concentrated on having it at Fairford every year instead of only biannually as it was before.
I went once, ’96 I think, but I didn’t think it was as good as everything seemed to be much more spread out along the length runway (more than 1.5 miles) whereas the static aircraft and stalls were much more tightly packed at BD.
I’ve been to Middle Wallop and think it is so different from the (R)IAT at Fairford that I don’t think they can really be compared. At Wallop the events on the ground seemed to take up as much importance as the flying display and the static aircraft could be viewed from much closer proximity.
I’ve been to Yeovilton twice, I can’t really remember the first in the early 90’s but I did go again last year, the flying display was shorter than I can remember at the (R)IATs (but that might be a sign of modern day cost saving) and the static aircraft featured a much higher percentage of RAF/FAA aircraft. I suppose you could think of it as a smaller scale airshow but certainly not lower quality.
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