FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW: The trains ran a wee late this morning but the weather was glorious, a perfect English summer day that would have suited the F-35 to a tee for its foreign debut.

Perhaps the most arresting fact of this show is that while the American military was absent from the last Paris Air Show this time it’s the Russian military who aren’t here.

A very interesting story in the show daily of FlightGlobal is headlined: “Russia Fumes At UK Visa Ban.” The British Foreign Ministry fused the visas of more than 100 Russian military, space and defense industry leaders because of the appalling and illegal fashion in which the Russians have behaved in Ukraine. Russia’s civil aviation industry is represented, but our dear readers don’t really about them, do they?