Thunder Over Alabama!  I know everyone hates on the air force and pilots, but seriously, this is Great Santini, Top Gun cool.  I LOVE air shows.  Especially Thunder Over Alabama (the Cleveland Air Show being a very, very close second, but only because my dad firmly believed no childhood was complete without annual visits and seats in pilots’ laps, which was just as fun at 12-in-cute-shorts as it was at 6-and-totally-in-awe.  Actually, the “in awe” part never left.  Not even now, at 28, which is more like cute-shorts-and-in-awe age.)

Thunder Over Alabama!  I know everyone hates on the air force and pilots, but seriously, this is Great Santini, Top Gun cool.  I LOVE air shows.  Especially Thunder Over Alabama (the Cleveland Air Show being a very, very close second, but only because my dad firmly believed no childhood was complete without annual visits and seats in pilots’ laps, which was just as fun at 12-in-cute-shorts as it was at 6-and-totally-in-awe.  Actually, the “in awe” part never left.  Not even now, at 28, which is more like cute-shorts-and-in-awe age.)