Seahornet wrote:I can't help thinking that some of you guys are aviation connoisseurs, rather than enthusiasts. For me, a rainy week at a poor year's RIAT is still far better than (nightmare!) just not going!
One of my happiest airshow memories is from a completely washed-out Exeter airport in the early to mid-eighties, where all day we'd seen nothing move apart from the odd JEA Shorts 360 or F27, and just as we were about to go someone was towing a red Fokker Dr1 triplane along the crowd line. My brother and I got out of the car and ran to the crowdline, and it stopped right in front of us and the guy towing it had a chat with us and brought it right up to the rope. We were literally the only ones left on the crowdline
We have the most varied airshow scene in the world. Sometimes I think we lose sight of what we have.