Why does the USA seem to be the only country that breeds (note spelling correction CC) these airshow acts?
Because, as long as it is only the pilots that have their life cycles ended, the authorities are totally unconcerned about the kill rate!
I went to Oshkosh in 1999. The whole time I was there I expected a crash to occur. It did - collision on the runway of a couple of warbirds during a formation TO.
At that show, Bob Hoover's routine in the Shrike was "dull"!
Several of the airshow preformers are not longer with us - ie Jimmy Franklin, and a number of others were smart enough to give it up before they went the same way - ie GeeBee
http://www.fototime.com/D3127FF31FDB457/conv.wmv
Dr 