Well, the much anticipated May 9th Russian Parade came and went - so many parallels with reality, past and present.
Like so many things “Russian” just now, it was I guess a bit over-hyped by Western media…although I’m sure Putin had been having wet dreams for 20 years about his glorious victory and Russian May 9th Parade in Kiev…but ah, diddums - Kiev is still Kyiv.
I was avidly keeping up to date on a couple of well trusted Twitter feeds on what was going on during the parade, when one said the fly-past had been “cancelled due to weather”
I sat up of course!
Even before I headed over to my nearest source of WX, I saw someone else had posted the METAR. Not ideal, but not “call it off” weather either.
Me thinks Putin was (rightly) worried that some Western plane-swatters were nearby, and relishing the chance of taking out low/slow targets flying in a straight line over a pre-determined path