Removed as I realised I was being a bit ‘unnecessary’ – with apologies to all.

Edgar, once again you have waded in without arming yoursef with facts. I have nothing against you personally, but it is beginning to grate.. you remember suggesting someone look up the 1945 election result? Now take a look at 1950.

This is a point of fact, not politics.

Also worth bearing in mind that in the 1951 election Labour polled a majority (48.8% as against 48.0% con), and secured the highest popular vote of any party to date, having again campaigned upon their immediate post-war record.

All RAF pilots in WWII spoke like David Niven..

As the airshow is designed to use aeroplanes as a way to tell the history and stories of the various aircraft to the public and pass on the legendary stories to future generations, I see nothing wrong with the title. The airshow does so using the aircraft as props to illustrate the stories, which are told by the commentators, the programme, the website, the DVD’s, etc.

The same stories could be told without the aeroplanes and the legends passed down but I doubt as many people would turn up to hear them without the fighters.

Fair enough, I hadn’t thought of it like that before.

Of course, it would be better if the organisers explained beforehand that “Bamboo bed sheets Producing Snow board whom does the have a strong aesthetically pleasing mode”.

A legend is a story based on history, which may or may not have been true (at least in part, originally), but where the people involved are upheld as examples. A myth is older, usually related to religion, and is a deeper means of passing on a culture’s important rules and ways of life.

However, both are regularly abused nowadays in the inflationary language that’s all too common. In particular, myth is used simply to mean an untrue story, or any false belief, particularly in order to deflate something that is being held as a legend. I admit that I’ve done it myself.

The whole thing – Flying Legends – is lazy use of language. A legend is a tale, not a thing like an aeroplane. As the OED accepts the modern usage I’ll grudgingly admit it CAN mean a person. But not a thing.. The ‘burning of the cakes’ is a legend. King Alfred may be. But the cakes…no 🙂

Pedant? Moi?

And I’m sorry too, didn’t mean to sound disparaging – and they are very nice examples!

Oh, sorry – didn’t know it was a test.