Originally Posted by brutt22
It seems to me that at a high percentage of air shows either a plane goes down or someone is killed or both. I see it on the news all the time. Why do they continue to have them?
While airshows can be dangerous -- especially when the planes and performers are pushing the envelope at very low altitudes where there is little margin for error -- I think that fatalities and hull losses are the exception rather than the norm. I do not agree that they occur at anywhere near a "high percentage of air shows."
The why is easy. Uncle Sam likes to show us taxpayers all the nifty toys that our money buys and, at the same time, promote patriotic feelings. At our local airshow this weekend, I finally got a personal glimpse of the B-2 bomber. Very cool.