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Laffy Kat

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1. I grew up going to airshows.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Aug 14, 2023, 08:06 PM

Aug 2023

I stopped going in 1997 after witnessing a fatality at an airshow in Broomfield, Colorado. I had both my kids there, my youngest a newborn. It was a Canadair F-86E doing stunts and mis-calculated. It was unbearably hot that day, although I don't know if density altitude had anything to do with the accident. I just know that it was very close--too close--to the crowded airfield. I decided there and then that airshows are not safe.

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I grew up going to airshows. Laffy Kat Aug 2023 #1