ONE aspect of military aircraft displays I would like to bring to mind is the impact these aircraft have on those with experience of war zones.

For sightseers the displays are an exciting spectacle, but for anyone who has been in a war zone a low-flying high power jet roaring over an area is terrifying.

This is the horrendous roar before bombs or missiles strike.

Western air forces ran over 150,000 sorties in the two gulf wars in Iraq, dropping hundreds of thousands of tons of munitions. And similarly many thousands of tons of bombs in the Afghanistan campaign, and the (all but now forgotten) Libyan campaign in 2012.

And, indeed, if anyone thinks this through they may begin to understand why we have hundreds of thousands of civilians pouring into Europe. The vast majority casualties of dreadful wars in the Middle East.

So I'd be glad to see the end of all high-power military strike aircraft in air displays. I am horrified that aircraft that in one theatre brings terror to so many, in another theatre ends up as spectator entertainment.

STUART MARSHALL

Alexandra Road, Parkstone, Poole