It's expensive enough in this hobby without scenic routes ! Eventually landed at Coningsby at 13:00. Gobbled the tomato and sardine sandwiches, sipped the coffee and waited and waited 
Kick off was at 16:00 said a local ?Then three guys arrived from the Netherlands. I spent a lot of time chatting to these very plesant aviation senior experts who spoke excellent English. I ask how they developed such good english. At school and watching english films with Dutch subtitles was their answer. A lesson there perhaps for ofsted
They believed the Dutch air force are replacing their aging F16's with 17 x F35a's (the none hover type). " Why F35's " I said ? Political was the reply with muffled comments about doing what uncle Sam wants
Then as advertised the BBMF came out. First up the Dac then the Spits and Hurri's beat up the airfield. The Lanc joined the show and they all practised the Palace fly bye for tomorrow. A what sounded like a German photographer directed a photo shoot from a STOL type thing which the Dutch lads recognised but I forgot what they said. Did I hear the photographer say "brexit" or was it "break it", difficult to tell with AM receivers
They all left for Wado just after the sun came out !
A jolly good day after all !
