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'Britain’s air regulator has today banned flying displays over land by vintage jet planes following the Shoreham Airshow crash which police fear killed up to 20 people.
Older aircraft will now instead be limited to fly-pasts, with no “high energy” aerobatics allowed. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) also announced that Hawker Hunter aircraft of the sort involved in Saturday’s disaster will be banned from civil air shows.'
Surely they'll quietly rescind this in a few months' time when everything's died down?
The measures are, as you say, temporary.
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=14&pagetype= 65&appid=7&mode=detail&nid=2479
the same as Johnathan Waley's Miss Demeanour which I understand is for sale at present?
They only happen because people want to watch them. Indeed, 10 years ago airshows in the UK attracted more spectators than any other mass spectator activity other than football matches, and I son't expect the figures have changed very much.
Just because you don't like them, doesn't make them pointless. Your mum, for example, is f**king pointless.
BAN IT!
I've spent 30 years flying aeroplanes. I've trained for hours and hours and hours, for years and years. I've gone without holidays, I've sacrificed nice cars, big houses, I could have f**king retired by now, I've devoted a great chunk of my life to this business and now I've got the equivalent of a beardy spod in an anorak breathing his halitosis into my face WITH HIS VIEWS ON A MATTER ABOUT WHICH HE KNOWS f**k ALL!
You can imagine my distress?
Commemorative Air Force? What faggotry is this?
Whether this is because you do not know the answers or because you are unwilling to give them is not entirely clear.
You've got bits of sandwich in your beard and your warm orange squash has leaked out of your thermos.
He's in a clearing in the woods by torchlight wearing a goat's head and a cloak. Naked women dance all round him chanting while he stabs the f**k out of a Ferrari.
That's how to sacrifice a car imo.
or was it a shell from a later artillery piece? I'm a little hazy on the details it seems.
Nah.
I found the figures ages ago for a sponsorship proposal, but now I can't find them.
Nah.
The UK has about a fifth of the population of the US, so if about the same proportional numbers attend that would be about 2.5 million.
Good hypothetical stats c. A noble attempt.Also, it doesn't bode well that you're using the American public as a means to justification, imo.
over 200,000 were at Farnborough. That's just two but a pretty good start
http://www.air-shows.org.uk/airshow-previews-and-reviews/201 5-preview-bournemouth-air-festival/
One airshow that’s taken the airshow circuit by storm is the Bournemouth Air Festival. 2014 saw crowds of over 1.3 million along the beaches. The cliff provide a superb vantage point to watch the flying from with many displays at eye-level or below! The RAF, Royal Navy and civilian displays take place over four days. Away from the flying, they’ll be ground entertainment featuring fireworks, marching bands and more from 10am-10pm (5pm on Sunday).