I don't get it!!!

Okay, this is something I've been confused about from day one. Not only confused, but in a way, really really cheesed about.

Problem: What's the deal with airshows?


First, they're boring. You're basically standing around all day in the blazingly hot sun, looking up into this blazingly hot sun. Good times. Or maybe, if you're really lucky, you'll get to tour an equally hot, concrete runway looking at the goodies on these planes. But so what? There's an airplane museum in Hamilton and all I have to say is: you've seen one, you've seen 'em all.

I mean really, does this crowd look like it's having a good time, or what?

Two, does a year ever go by when there isn't an airshow death?

Every stinkin' year, a perfectly capable, talented pilot dies in one of these crashes. Literally! Can you think of a summer that's gone by without an airshow catastrophe? And what's the point? What are you risking? You life, for what? An airshow?! There's no glory. There's no point. You're dying doing loop-dee-loops above a crowd of people.

Maybe this is the point? Maybe people enjoy the possibility of going to an airshow and seeing someone "crash and burn," so to speak?! Maybe people like the rush?! If that's the case, than these things should be for 18+. Imagine the trauma of a 6 year-old seeing a plane hit the ground?

I'm sorry if this is crass, but so be it. Two guys were killed on Sunday at an airshow in Moosejaw, and they're just the tip of the iceberg. I'm willing to wager someone else will die this summer at an airshow. I'd bet the farm on it. And for what? Do these people look like they're having a good time?