Fuck the Airshow
The Toronto Airshow (aka the Canadian International Airshow) "starts" tomorrow. Yeah. Sure. Whatever you say.
Sheena picked the wrong friggin' day to work from home to catch up on long overdue paperwork and research. The practice runs have been in full swing all morning. My ears are sore. I've been buzzed directly overhead pretty much repeatedly for the last couple of hours. Car alarms are going off all around. Looking out the back window, saw the after burn of some high tech war machine. (El Chaperone gets off on this stuff, but Sheena detests this kind of thing).
Airshows give me the willies. Too many late night news broadcasts of mid-air collisions or fighter jets crashing into crowds I suppose. I like my airplanes safe and well-equipped with plastic knives and headsets with nice people bringing free wine. THAT IS WHAT MODERN AERONAUTICS IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALL ABOUT.
Not death from above. Not screeching misplaced penile power. Not ear-splitting nerve fraying noise intended to intimidate the population and make the little kid next door cry all morning. Not speed and agility and the best engineering minds in the world harnessed to kill more accurately.
Close my eyes and imagine if this was real. What if we lived in Beirut. Or Haifa. Or Baghdad. Or Kabul. This is not entertainment. This is not for fun. This is sick.
posted by Sheena @ 12:35 PM
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I'm always a bit miffed during the public grieving process when one of these guys dies.
"He was such a hero. He flew a big-ass expensive planes in big circles for no particular reason. He defied death every day...for no, ahhh, particular reason. Then he made a dumb-ass mistake, and almost took a bunch of innocent bystanders with him. Along with a billion dollar plane. What a, well, hero. I guess."
I think you should go outside and give them a little "Crack O'Sheena".
Maybe it will piss them off as much as your mooner pissed you off yesterday.
Though I cannot comment on behalf of my colleagues in the 3rd and 4th generational jetjock community, Sheena, we at the F-117 outfitted "Fightin' 49ers", not unlike our great nation's present Administration's policy of agressive passivity, take the position:
"What Airshow?"
Have a Nice Day,
Capt. Steve Collier
Public Affairs
49th Fighter Wing
U.S.A.F.
A.F.B. Holloman, NM.
halifax has banned 'the warthog' jet that did the 'fiendly' fire from their airshow.
i've only been to two airshows in my life, or was that one......all i liked was the vintage stuff like the biplanes.
put your earplugs in!!!
Lol at the Put Your Earplugs in comment. Like that helps. God damn air show wrecks the last weekend of summer every year. Fuck the airshow indeed.
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