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charlene · 09-10-2010, 04:42 PM

It's part of the long weekend/CNE/Labour Day/Veterans parde thing/tradition. The 'Ex" has a military tradition as well.
The 'watching' of the planes is quite different as they do their stunts (and many war pilots back in the day had to perform many stunts in those old planes) over a lake as opposed to a field. While hitting the water at those speeds is basically the same as hitting the ground (and we have lost a couple of pilots in the airshow that way) having the airshow over the lake during the EX with the city watching and as a backdrop as well is beautiful. Theimagery is beautiful.
The noise is, as you can imagine..loud. Ear plugs can be bought.
It's but a few moments in the big picture of things. NOt all of the planes are ear splitting jets. The guy yelling on the rides 'Do you wanna go faster?' while pumping up the music to ear splitting levels within a foot of your head is worse than the planes going hundreds of miles an hour past you at hundreds of feet in the air.
Much of the show is out over the lake , quite a distance from shore and the noise is barely audible. The police helicopter where I live is more annoying at 2 a.m. flying cirlces for hours on end looking for some kid who just robbed the 7-11. A 2 hour rock concert (and I'm sure you've attended some JJ and possibly even performed in some loud bands) is more damaging to your ears. I know that all the air shows I've watched have not damaged my ears at all compared to one RUSH concert or ELO at Mssey Hall concert, let alone Meat Loaf or Jimmy Buffett.
The CNE has not looked to the future for decades. It's a sad sorry event better seen at night when the lights can razzle dazzle and it all seems less dodgy, dirty and old. Even one of my daycare parents said it wasn't like when she was a kid..and she's barely 30.
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I bet some of those old folks would love to be out and see the air show..I know my uncle who was in WW2 and knew many of the old planes flying around by name. (he was a plane mechanic in England during the war-sending the flyboys off to save the world) He watched from the 43rd floor balcony of a condo right down on the waterfront near the EX and loved the planes flying 'just' overhead. He was in his early 80's at the time. He loved every minute of it and at one point was quite teary eyed as he thought of his old pals and those old planes and marveling at the new ones.

09-10-2010, 04:42 PM	#8
charlene Moderator Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 16,001	Re: The Battle Of Britain It's part of the long weekend/CNE/Labour Day/Veterans parde thing/tradition. The 'Ex" has a military tradition as well. The 'watching' of the planes is quite different as they do their stunts (and many war pilots back in the day had to perform many stunts in those old planes) over a lake as opposed to a field. While hitting the water at those speeds is basically the same as hitting the ground (and we have lost a couple of pilots in the airshow that way) having the airshow over the lake during the EX with the city watching and as a backdrop as well is beautiful. Theimagery is beautiful. The noise is, as you can imagine..loud. Ear plugs can be bought. It's but a few moments in the big picture of things. NOt all of the planes are ear splitting jets. The guy yelling on the rides 'Do you wanna go faster?' while pumping up the music to ear splitting levels within a foot of your head is worse than the planes going hundreds of miles an hour past you at hundreds of feet in the air. Much of the show is out over the lake , quite a distance from shore and the noise is barely audible. The police helicopter where I live is more annoying at 2 a.m. flying cirlces for hours on end looking for some kid who just robbed the 7-11. A 2 hour rock concert (and I'm sure you've attended some JJ and possibly even performed in some loud bands) is more damaging to your ears. I know that all the air shows I've watched have not damaged my ears at all compared to one RUSH concert or ELO at Mssey Hall concert, let alone Meat Loaf or Jimmy Buffett. The CNE has not looked to the future for decades. It's a sad sorry event better seen at night when the lights can razzle dazzle and it all seems less dodgy, dirty and old. Even one of my daycare parents said it wasn't like when she was a kid..and she's barely 30. lol I bet some of those old folks would love to be out and see the air show..I know my uncle who was in WW2 and knew many of the old planes flying around by name. (he was a plane mechanic in England during the war-sending the flyboys off to save the world) He watched from the 43rd floor balcony of a condo right down on the waterfront near the EX and loved the planes flying 'just' overhead. He was in his early 80's at the time. He loved every minute of it and at one point was quite teary eyed as he thought of his old pals and those old planes and marveling at the new ones.