I’m confused. Are you advocating banning dangerous spectator sports?
Nope, although I’m not really sure what a “spectator sport” is....my fave sport is motorcycle roadracing.
Sport implies competition.
Are aerobatics considered a competition? Or would a better description be “performance art”? I’m not the one to ask as I’ve only been to a few air shows and do not know how one is “judged” or if one aerobatic performer competes against another for points....etc...
Fly-by’s of old military craft are more “performance art”.
At some point safety should be taken into consideration. Would the photo-op / landing have been any less fantastic to watch if the two vintage planes were 200 feet apart?
It certainly seems a bit too risky to both irreplaceable man and machine if there were no competition taking place.....kinda like taking two multi-million dollar vintage GP bikes out on a parade lap at Daytona and screwing them into the wall at 200 mph. Pointless.