The best time ever at the European airshow circuit was in the years just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the former enemies started visiting their former adversaries.
All of a sudden we saw Fishbeds, Floggers, Fulcrums, Fitters, Frogfoot's and a few Flankers, Bears, Backfires, Hinds and whatever you could dream of, being flown with bravado at our airshows. It was fantastic !!!
Beside that, it was absolutely fabulous (at the crowdline or the flightline) to be able to talk and have a beer with pilots & groundcrew from behind the former Iron Curtain, be it in English or German, and to find out they were human too... (we always suspected that, but it was wonderfull to find out it was actually true.....)
It certainly felt like making new friends !!!! Those were happy days......
Aju,
Derk