Visiting numerous airshows (many of them BofB shows on cool Fife Sep weekends) had a large influence in me entering aviation, as a callow yoof.
Many happy memories of the early seventies air-show mass streaming departures of unfathonable numbers of Lightnings/Phantoms, & how to ever forget the transonic passes at chest height by "The Slivers", crazy Belgians in Starfighters.
I was grateful too for a few GCA's followed by a quick dirty dive up the coast in my Cessna to Dundee, whilst coming to grips with "hacking it" as Ted Girdler used to put it, whilst simultaneously avoiding the East Coast StratoGranite. Had a go in the F4 Sim once too,courtesy of Paul Ricard, who used to instruct part time with us in Dundee, bit different to my Cessna 152 of that era.
Thanks Leuchars, for fuelling a teenage dream, realised & cherished for > 30 years now !