This thread is going nowhere. The majority are all agreed and the extemists will never agree. A bit like Northern Ireland, in fact. Fortunately the minority is being squeezed ever smaller and perhaps will, one day, become an irrelevance.

If you are so irrationally passionate about it what are you doing in Scotland?

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Mildenhall, I think it may have been 1985 ish, 7 Fiat G91Rs of Frecce Tricolori took off, did their display, no problem !, we noticed only six landed ? nothing was mention on PA ! all continued. Read about it in paper next day. IIRC pilot was killed. RIP. Keith.
This happened in 1979 (re-equipped with the MB339 in 1982) Solo pilot hit a tree whilst re-positioning for a manouvere. It took the USAFE a looong time to allow the Frecce back to their display programmes. I think the next time may have been Ramstein in 1988….

This from a thread posted by Kodak in January 2008. I didn’t think I was getting that old! However I well remember seeing the pall of smoke away to the north west, I think, from where we were were watching. And then one missing on landing, but no announcement as Kodak stated. But it was pretty clear to all around what had happened.

no it isn’t, it is common sense

buy something for £100 sell it for £20

economic sense???

I am also a businessman…..my bank manage would have me in his office pdq if i did that sort of thing.

Or buy it for £100 and sell it for £100 but have no customers. In any case the true disparity between costs and revenue seems unclear from these posts.

Well done – great pictures confirm exactly what CD said. I need new specs!:)

When the image is enlarged it does look like the canopy and not a tarp cover.