You sir IMHO are a bone head
He may not be the only one who thinks what they were doing was not worth the risk, whether you liking hearing this or not.
I don’t think he’s a bonehead.
I have a Commercial certificate with multiengine and instrument ratings and I’m a former Certified Instrument Flight Instructor ans Part 135 pilot and airshow crashes are just awful considering that most people take a marginal, or at least a badly misinformed view of aviation and the feds barely resist temptation to regulate and tax general aviation (non-airline and non-military aviation) out of existence anyway.
One part of me says that the man killed was doing what he loved and was generous to share a beautiful part of history in his P-51. Another part agrees that it is horrifying to take that kind of risk with family and children around.
Oshkosh is the most wonderful experience in the aviation world, in a time where the allure of spaceflight and aviation are largely lost on Americans anymore. I was there last year when there was a taxiway fatality and now a fatality this year. What’s needed are some adjustments so we don’t risk losing this wonderful event and so that aviation maintains the aura of a safety record that is the envyy of the world.