"Ron Natalie" wrote in message news:411770df$0$2426

I wouldn't say they were ever a commanding presence. Fifi wasn't there
last year
either was it? We were really lean on heavier warbird iron this year.

Is that happening everywhere (except at warbird shows?) The last Rose
Festival Airshow I (will probably ever) attended was disgusting. The view
of the airshow was blocked by inflatable beer cans, SUVs and corporate
logos. They had three WWI airplanes and a
P-38 but you couldn't see them because although they were open to the
public, they were surrounded by opague plastic barricades without any
marking to let the public know they were there.

The warbirds got such a short time to fly and were brought in to land with
such a short interval that one (a Yak,IIRC) slammed on the brakes and blew a
tire, and another nearly ground-looped trying to avoid that one. But that
truck-eating, fire-breathing dinosaur thing sure got plenty of time! And
you couldn't walk around the warbirds at all except for the '38.

That and $5 ATM fees. But, I got to meet Bob Hoover so it wasn't a complete
loss.

-c