First I remember attending was the 'Air Force Day' show at RNZAF Ohakea in 1981 when I was 5 or 6. I remember hating the jet noise (too loud), watching a Dodge fire tender hooning across the field and being told my father was driving it (or it was the one he drove, I'm not sure just now. If you're reading this Samuel, do you remember?), being brassed off that my elder sisters got to visit the control tower and I didn't, and being terrified by the size and darkness of an F-4's jetpipes (afraid of the dark you see).
20 years and many shows later, at the same place, I was priviledged enough to be about 30 feet off track from the 2sqn Boss' 50ft/480kt final flyby during the ACF disbandment, but that is another thread I think....
