Thanks for your generous comment Ray.

Good to see you and great having our recent catch up.

David

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What a fantastic testament to how the world is actually run, the protagonists are in too deep for resurrection, and this a brave stripped down account of the inner slime of hypocrisy hiding behind a globalising presence. We also should not forget the regular private trips that are polluting the area (how can we?)of trips by Saudi Princesses in search of more handbags.

A winning poem by one who knows what he is talking about, and a powerful message there.

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Thanks for your reading, comments and likes MC and Stephen.

For clarification purposes, the arms trade today is conducted primarily for reasons of greed, influence and power. Whereas there once was a case and need for development in regard of our own defence and security, we seem way beyond that now. The entities which drove that development were not solely owned by private industry.

The problem we have today is of economies and specifically niche industries being driven by their seeming necessity for perpetual war, a topic which has been written about extensively in recent decades...and which Orwell highlighted/predicted in his day and its likely expanse into the age we live in now.

When I first was posted to Aldershot elements of the RAF/RAE were still in situ at Farnborough Airfield. It's gleaming history of defence and development retaining a small footprint on the landscape, there is no such footprint now.

Many are aware of that fine history not all have forgotten it...it is very much with that history in mind that I am repulsed by what goes on there now..

David

PS: For interest:

https://www.aerosociety.com/media/13822/paper-2020-03-rood-rae-100.pdf

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In other days, Farnborough Air Show was a shop window for
the once great British aeronautics industry and saw the unveiling
of aircraft that were benchmarks of progress in their day. We can
tend to forget that the world was in competition in the industry
and it was fierce, leading the way to what became known as
"The Space Race" and all that it meant to this world, in peace
or war.

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Superbly written, David. I have been to Farnborough, so I see exactly what you mean.

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