Bex, I was pondering over this at work today and thought to myself; jump 50 years into the future to say 2060 and what will my kids and their kids see when they go to an airshow? There will be some replicas from the 1910’s and 1920’s, a couple of commercials or Moths from the 30’s, heaps of fighters and light bombers from the 40’s and a few early jets from the 50’s. Therefore the first 60 years of aviation will be fairly well represented – what about the next hundred years though? There will be no century or teen series fighters, no A-7, no F-4, no mirages, no F-111’s, no harriers, no jags, no lightnings, no canberras pretty much nothing at all when it is such a classic aviation era. What to do about it? I don’t know, there is too much cost and red tape involved. Will there still be aishows then? I don’t know about that either, it will only take one incident for a warbird to crash and kill some people on the ground before the do-gooders try to ban airshows as being too dangerous. Just think our friends in naval heritage do not get to see a battleship, U Boat or destroyer in action only a few static ones, maybe that is where historical aviation is headed.
PS I sincerely hope that my grandkids get to see some low level fast jet action.
Paul
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