Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
When I was in charge of a very small airshow decades back, it was prohibited by the authority that an airplane be permitted to maneuver such that it's inertia could carry it toward the crowd line. This was one of the few "absolutes" of our permission for the airshow.
It is basically the same rule here h in continental Europe, but apparently no so in the US,( waiting to be contradicted if I am wrong)
In 2017 in OSH , the air display of the Blue Angels , in their opening and closing figure one solo aircraft was overlying the crowd high speed at low level ,very spectacular but something we did not see in Europe anymore after Ramstein.
In my early days in French military air shows in the 1970s, the ususal way to start the airdisplay was to have 2 Aeronavale Crusaders overfling the crowd at 500 Kts with afterburners on . The crowd loved it. Ramstein changed all that.
But we went the other way, Today in 2022 , with the curent rules many hezitate to organise a proper airshow.