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Just got back from the Dayton air show, it sucked. I guess Ive been spoiled in the past, used to live in chicago and would go up to Oshkosh all the time, great memories. Have an aunt the works in the Aerospace industry, went to the Dayton Centennial and had chalet seats, that was awesome, Thunderbirds made the Blue Angels look silly. Got to go to the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends last year, saw the F-22 for the first time, shit my pants. This year was a huge disappointment to say the least. Neither the Blue angels or the Thunderbirds were there, but I knew that going in, thats not what bothered me. I was there to see the Starfighters, probably my favorite plane of all time, the F-104. Yeah, they did like 4 passes, didnt even do a climb demo. Raptor's program was about a third of the one I saw last year at GML. The commentator kept saying that "this is just a taste at what it can do, but" blah blah classified my ass, I saw it last year. It blew my mind, this year it just blew. This thing will do loops and turn in your living room, you dont really get a sense of what can do on tv, you have no frame of reference, until you see it in person. Naval heritage flight, two planes, a Corsair and a Hornet. I dont even know if you could call that a formation. What ever, show sucked, I blame fuel costs, guess I'll have to go shoot tomorrow to ease the pain. Sorry for my bitching 