Being a former Airman myself, I LOVE airshows. As a matter of fact, when I was stationed in Korea, they gave me an incentive flight in an F-16. Most serious kick a** half-hour of my life!!!! Yes sir, I have gone faster than Mach-1, done loops, barrel rolls...etc. You cannot imagine how intense that is.

j.j., my first assignment was in Clovis, N.M. and we had nothing but F-111's there. Neat plane. We always called them Aardvarks - Flying Trashcans. Cool plane though. Heavily armed with the swept wing design.

I've seen the Thunderbirds several times and the Blue Angels a few times too. But if you want to see some serious flying, I went on an mock air battle deployment called Red Flag in Las Vegas for six weeks. Planes from all over the world came in an practiced air battles with MIG's. Amazing to see.