I was never one for doing lots of airshows,I was lucky anyway because I worked in aviation from 1970 – 2015 and very rarely had to pay to get into airshows LOL,the sheer variety of aircraft on offer in the 60’s/70’s/80’s/90’s was usually impressive.

I grew up in scotland and in the 50’s + 60’s we regularly saw the likes of Scimitars,Lightnings and Starfighters in the course of normal squadron flying.I used to love going to Airshows at Leuchars (dad paid LOL).

Difficult to say my fave display a/c but a well flown Lightning Display was impressive as  was the Vulcan,I remember my first airshow down south (Alconbury 1966 ish) – there were some unimpressive/uninspiring displays flown by the USAF and then we had an RAF Hunter being flown very smoothly and enthusiastically and doing very low tight turns etc well within the airfield boundary 🙂 – we then got an overshoot followed by a very impressive full power steep  climbout by a Victor B(SR)2 straight up to High Altitude in a clear blue sky – I guess they did not have much fuel on board LOL but a very impressive sight and sound.

One of my other lovely aviation memories was the first time I saw/heard a Sea Fury,I was in the cockpit of a Canberra at Cottesmore in 1972ish doing some After Flight checks when I heard an approaching  smooth whiney howly noise,I leapt out of the cockpit to see the Fury doing a low level flat out pass along the main runway – what a lovely sound 🙂