Dan O'Hagan wrote:
Losing the Tank Bank is like the Globe nailing a roof on. The character of the venue is lost forever and changed for the worse.
I might not care much for shows inside Duxford, they don't give me, personally, what I require from an airshow experience, but I do believe the venue itself was perfectly safe (even though plenty of aspects of previous Legends I witnessed felt otherwise), or at least the risk was acceptable insofar as everyday life carrying a degree of risk. I also believe that, historically, Duxford is of huge significance, and to lose it as an airshow venue would be tantamount to cultural vandalism.
But to neuter an already dire spectator experience can, in no way, be spun as a positive. Sorry, but that's undeniable.
To the people that regularly congregated on the Tank Bank maybe.
However, that was only a fairly small proportion of the total crowd at a popular show such as Legends. Presumably most of the others were happy enough to watch from elsewhere and kept going back year after year?
As said before the vast majority that attend airshows are not the "enthusiasts" that post here.