Just to make you jealous, when I was in the military, I used to run airshows and got to meet/greet/mingle with ALL of the pilots and ground crews...and during the airshows themselves I was on the 'front lines' all the time. My favorites? The WWII crowd. Loved it when the CAF would fly in from all over the country. Never really realized how big some of the fighters were and how small the bombers were of that time...
The most fun? Sitting in the cockpits...listening to the old time fighter/bomber jocks tell their stories...
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