The BBMF always make it to RAF Leuchars air show, and the reason for that is that they can land there. One of the problems at East Fortune is that the airfield land owners won’t allow aircraft to land. Also the flight line is from North to South with high trees at either end, this tends to push the aircraft to a higher level with the crowd huddled at one end of the display. The airshow would be better if it ran east to west along the main runway with THE SUN (No Show) at the crowd’s backs.
The 2000 Festival of Flight airshow over three days was brilliant, with aircraft landing at the site and the crowd getting a close view of the aircraft. Over the years the show has become very stale and lacking imagination in the air and on the ground with virtually the same line up of aircraft every year for example I have never seen Classic Flights Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer attend the show considering its connection should have been a must or a Gyroplane an aspect of aviation which I think gets ignored at airshows over all a good effort but could be better.
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