"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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I contradict myself.. Joe MIGHT watch a C-130 fly over, even though
it's got propellers.

Joe likes rocket-powered Freightliner dragsters and Cessna-chomping
Truckasaurii much more than an actual airshow.

The last time I went to an airshow to volunteer with and help keep an eye on
the Tillamook P-38, the show planners had it tucked away behind opaque
plastic next to the WWI-era biplanes. The public had NO idea that any of
that was there except you could just see the tips of the props sticking up
over the barrier.

From the '38 you couldn't see the airshow because of the giant inflatable
beer can or SUV or whatever it was, but it worked out for me because I got
to talk with a 10th Mountain Division WWII vet, cruise around in WWII flight
suit on the hood of a '43 jeep, get a private all-access tour to a
fully-restored B-25, and meet Bob Hoover... ...so maybe I shouldn't
complain. But then again, I was a volunteer so I didn't have to pay to get
in, otherwise I'd have been pretty upset. They had -all- the old warbirds
parked behind a cyclone fence, though, so the public couldn't get closer
than about 20' and you could only see the front of the airplanes.
(Hillsboro, Oregon)

-c