Red is for Arrows

This was part of a whole bunch of Red Arrow merchandise cleared through Cancer research charity shops, earlier this year and may represent a series of tragedies, steaming from the original crash on the A27 which has recently finished going through the legal process. I shot lots of images on two occasions fitting the wings the other way the second time!

Pieces and packaging

If the first tragedy was the crash, the second was the new rules almost immediately brought-in which as good as prevented any kind of inland air-display where urban areas are within the flight path; something we've seen here, with Farnborough severely curtailed, and the Red Arrows reduced to a single-pass, slow-speed fly-by, in formation behind a transport-giant last year.

Put together

Obviously that lack of public presence will have had a knock-on effect on the sales from the gift stalls' set-up at the shows, in turn affecting the revenue-stream to the RAF Benevolent Fund and/or the RAF Association, the third tragedy.

The Army Benevolent Fund having suffered a similar reduction in stature and public-familiarity as first the big Army Show in Rushmore and then the Earl's Court's Tattoo (and similar regional events) were scaled back and eventually scrapped by Tory cuts through the 1980's and 1990's.

Detail shots and 'Flying Wing'

(it didn't fly - it's a diver!)

The upshot on one level is a ton of stuff to be cleared via-donation to charity, the other is more need is ex-servicemen, and less ability by the established srvice charities to meet that need, leading to all sorts of private charities springing up in their stead; Help for Heroes, Helping Heroes, etc . . .

Of which some are perfectly legitimate and worthy, but others are run by Right-wing or far-Right organisations whose main aim is not raising money, but raising their own profiles and publicising their own agenda. While the landscape of many charities with similar names or aims, gives succour to out-and-out fraudsters, collecting for themselves - The fourth tragedy!

Wing the other-way up . . . correct?

This (above list of tragedies) is not to be wondered at, it's the ultimate goal of everything the Tory grandees (also behind Brwreakshit) have been working toward for the last 40-years, and one shouldn't be surprised.

Not that I'm saying the rural wealthy and urban elite have deliberately organised an air-crash with nefarious aims - that would be conspiracy-theories' gone mad! But, that it has helped reduce the fabric of society and quality of life of the nation, is exactly the sort of convenient, coincident synergy, those pretentions, preening old-Etonian prick's feed on, nay; thrive-on!

The Red Arrows, unable to perform as they used too and no longer raising funds for charity will face the axe that 'did for' Gemini, the Black Diamonds, the Blades, the Blue Chips, the Macawas, the Poachers, and the Red Pelicans . . . that saw-off the Naval Gun Teams, the REME Jeep Race and the White Helmets.