Police actually asked at the news conference for people to be circumspect about what they post on line because families may not be aware of their losses yet.

I should have made clear, I was referring to airshows in UK.

My thoughts too.

Put in prospective, this is the first air show crash to involve deaths, other than pilot and/or aircrew, since the Farnborough DH110 crash in 1952, 63 years ago. The media and public opinion will not quite grasp this, (or the fact that in those days, the airshow just carried on – but that was a different world then) but….
Unfortunately, this is the type of accident that I have always been dreading ever happening, deaths either on the airfield, or just outside.
Air shows from now on will never quite be the same, for better or worse.
And I think all of us who follow airshows, or work in it, are going have to accept this.

D1566, have you not read my earlier post about Project Hula and ships supplied to the Soviets from USA specifically for their use in a Russian invasion of Japan?

Says it all, Charliehunt. I’ve always wondered if we’d be having a conversation now, 70 years later, after thousands of POWs were murdered, millions died in an invasion of Japan, which was intended for November 45 and March 46, a war that went on for two or three more years. People would now be pointing out Truman had the means to end the war overnight, by dropping the Bombs, but he didn’t do it. They’d be saying now, why did Truman allow so many millions more to die?

I recall an early edition of “Surprise! Surprise!” When she reunited a Lancaster bomber crew by the BBMF’s Lanc. She asked the guest if he could still name his crew. He gave the names and she then asked him to turn around, and there they were. A meeting for the whole crew for the first time since the end of WW2. The guest was then invited for a flight on PA474, he asked Cilla to go with him and his ex-crew. Looking shocked, she flew in the mid-upper gun turret. So she did one useful thing in here life, and her singing in the early days wasn’t that bad!