Mustangs dive in strafing runs, explosions erupt and smoke billows and drifts across the airport, a formation of T-28s clouds the sky, a machine gun mounted on an Army jeep chatters as uniformed soldiers fire their carbines. Nope, it’s not war … it’s the afternoon Warbird Airshow at AirVenture.
For pilots, the inherent problem of coordination is obvious. How do you safely keep 70 airplanes (in past shows there have been as many as 167 airplanes) with a variety of performance capabilities airborne over a small geographic area like Wittman Regional Airport?
