The year 2020/21 has been a difficult time both professionally and personally for a great many people all over the globe. Causing normal social life and commerce to be curtailed almost everywhere to differing degrees, most spectator sports and events being cancelled or held without the spectators. Air Shows were no exception with most shows being cancelled in the UK including The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford and Flying Legends who were to host their first show at the new venue of Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire. As the Covid lockdowns were implemented some event organizers started to look at risk management to see if new formats of managing events would work.
In UK airshows The Shuttleworth Collection were one of the first to implement a new management format to re start their display season in 2020. They have continued to develop their “socially distanced air shows” and have continued with a full calendar of events in 2021.