. If that was the case, surely they would want to leave in front of a crowd and not when everyone's gone?ego/willy waving/general high and mightyness
CJS wrote:Can anyone explain if there is any reason other than ego/willy waving/general high and mightyness or whatever you want to call it, why the USAF always arrive early and leave late with certain of their airshow assets? The Thunderbirds, Lancer and Buff are three obvious examples this year but there's always something. There seemed no reason at all for the two heavy bombers to leave on Tuesday instead of Monday, so why?
sopwithflyer wrote:Is this what you are you are going to do when you make headmaster CJS? You have the power, (high and mightiness) so you are going to wave your willy around in front of the kids and tell them they can't go home until Tuesday.
CJS wrote:Oh grow up some of you, it's a perfectly valid question.![]()
I'm not criticising the US for their participation at the show, simply asking why they often don't arrive and leave when everyone else does.
Andy (thanks for your sensible reply) - yes ops, tanker availability maybe but no-one else seems to have the same problem, hence the question.
mikek wrote:CJS wrote:Oh grow up some of you, it's a perfectly valid question.![]()
I'm not criticising the US for their participation at the show, simply asking why they often don't arrive and leave when everyone else does.
Andy (thanks for your sensible reply) - yes ops, tanker availability maybe but no-one else seems to have the same problem, hence the question.
there was a valid question in there IMO, just the way the whole thing came across.
CJS wrote:Can anyone explain if there is any reason other than ego/willy waving/general high and mightyness or whatever you want to call it, why the USAF always arrive early and leave late with certain of their airshow assets? The Thunderbirds, Lancer and Buff are three obvious examples this year but there's always something. There seemed no reason at all for the two heavy bombers to leave on Tuesday instead of Monday, so why?
CJS wrote:sopwithflyer wrote:Is this what you are you are going to do when you make headmaster CJS? You have the power, (high and mightiness) so you are going to wave your willy around in front of the kids and tell them they can't go home until Tuesday.
You are joking, right?
CJS wrote:Oh grow up some of you, it's a perfectly valid question.![]()
I'm not criticising the US for their participation at the show, simply asking why they often don't arrive and leave when everyone else does.
Andy (thanks for your sensible reply) - yes ops, tanker availability maybe but no-one else seems to have the same problem, hence the question.
Gooze wrote:I really dont understand the negativity in this forum lately. Do people purposefully post these topics to encourage arguments?
In what I think is an extremely simple answer to the original stretched out question....
........These aircraft are active military assets. Not airshow toys.
Any suggestions that we or the airshow organisers have any control over US mil aircraft (on a US airfield might I add) are in cuckcoo land.
period. fact.
CJS wrote:Yikes.I'll be sure to run my posts past you in the future before I slick submit Derek.
Open apology to the USAF, other US air arms and everyone who is a US citizen - I am really really sorry that my question was sneering and disrespectful and I promise never to question anything you do ever again, especially if you send aircraft to our airshow. You are are all wonderful and, of course, never deserving of any questions or (even though it wasn't) criticism.
I mean, come on.![]()
Something I was wondering. Does anyone know why USAF aircraft often arrive early and stay for a day or two after all other show aircraft have left?
DerekF wrote:CJS wrote:Yikes.I'll be sure to run my posts past you in the future before I slick submit Derek.
Open apology to the USAF, other US air arms and everyone who is a US citizen - I am really really sorry that my question was sneering and disrespectful and I promise never to question anything you do ever again, especially if you send aircraft to our airshow. You are are all wonderful and, of course, never deserving of any questions or (even though it wasn't) criticism.
I mean, come on.![]()
If you don't have the ability to ask a sensible question in polite manner then I'm only too happy to vet your posts for you.Your somewhat over-the-top reaction would suggest that you don't have that ability.
Part of the problem with fora in general is not what is asked but the way it is asked. Your attitude in your original post was clearly designed to provoke a reaction. If you saidSomething I was wondering. Does anyone know why USAF aircraft often arrive early and stay for a day or two after all other show aircraft have left?
I think you might have got better answers. If that was your intention.
UKTopgun wrote:Geez people will find anything to be critical about, I think this thread is a nonsense! How about giving USAF/USAFE great credit for the best RIAT contribution for years, in terms of assets but also in terms of a great attitude to meeting the public. Always chatty, helpful, polite, and this one I really did notice - in front of their aeroplanes from really early to really late, still going when most air arms had gone home. They epitomise great PR and they were all a credit to the country when I visited FFD on Saturday.![]()
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CJS wrote:Can anyone explain if there is any reason other than ego/willy waving/general high and mightyness or whatever you want to call it, why the USAF always arrive early and leave late with certain of their airshow assets? The Thunderbirds, Lancer and Buff are three obvious examples this year but there's always something. There seemed no reason at all for the two heavy bombers to leave on Tuesday instead of Monday, so why?
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