To those guys/gals who have been in this industry for years..............did you really think this 'circus act' inquiry would really go anywhere positively?
'Mr Hat' said it all
It's inevitable that aviation will just be another ordinary job some day.
It's called progress & right or wrong we have to have it but at times one wonders whether it ought to be called 'regress'!
50 years since Yuri was thrust into space, the world took notice back then because it was simply amazing.................now?........just like aviation space travel is common place.
With aviation it had to grow. At first it was dangerous, exciting,glamorous & well respected with heroes almost daily. The public where in awe at pilots, their skills etc giving them almost God like status & the rewards to match it...........now many years latter it too is common place where nobody gives it another thought to travel by air & it's big business............& so an era is coming to an end as we used to know it, such inquiry's/gatherings/meetings as we have been discussing here for ages is just a few final fleeting attempts to keep the mystic alive by the true believers................simply put nobody (or few as in the gen public/pollies) cares anymore, sad really...
Enjoy it whilst you can for the legacy we leave behind for our grandchildren will only be found in the history books.
Wmk2