Better idea! Go to French AF and Aeronavale airshows. No attempt to rip you off with inflated entrance prices and a very good show to boot.

The worse one I’ve ever been to is Camarillo in California last year. HUGE gaps in the program, NO aero at all, it basically consisted of a few planes flying past every 5 minutes for half an hour, then a 15-30 minute *gap* followed by more planes flying by every 5 minutes for another half hour.
The only saving grace was 2 P38s in the circuit & event then it took about 10 minutes for those 2 to formate…
At the end there was a pisspoor attempt at a “balbo”.. which occurred about 3 minutes before the FAA shut down the show & reopened the field to GA traffic

What did TFC do with their example after they got the Hoochin?

& correct frame of mind helps. Read this:
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft

& then go buy his book 🙂

It’s not quite Bob Pirsig & his “Zen & the art….” but..

When I worked there the adult trainees were so much better to work with compared to your average apprentice because they wanted to learn, and wanted to be there.

Same is pretty much true of any *mature* students in college. I often take classes at the local CC just for the hell of it & my grades now are damn near straight A’s which is a vast improvement over what I got in school….

….apart from metal & wood shop obviously because I wanted to be in those classes when I was a kid…(altho there were a bit surprised/horrified to find out the model of a cannon from HMS Victory with a 3ft barrel was capable of firing snooker balls quite some distance..)

Which ones specifically are untrue?

According to the FAA the *more realer* one is the one up near Canada someplace (S Dakota?) & not the one at Chino.

I should say that is the FAA’s “current thinking”….. as there may be an appeal or something else in progress…

There’s an unwritten rule on this thread that scheduled flights, both commercial and military) are not included – otherwise you could stand near any military airfield and be writing all day.

I live near 2 Military airfields & neither of them has ” scheduled flights” as such.. 😉

I heard a little story about false limbs and Pilots – Someone said that if you were unfortunate enough to land in “The Drink” it was best to fill the limb with ping pong balls so it acheived a level of bouyancy?

Floating about in the oggin while upside down wouldn’t be condusive to survival.. 😉