[SSN558]

"shouldn't we be dispensing with air shows during the duration"

Absolutely Not. You have to let people hear and feel what that shriek before the boom is like. It is a good reminder to any terrorists what the last thing they are ever likely to hear is going to be like.

[Crowcreek]

I want to be there so bad... Edwards is a beautiful place -- and seeing Yeager's historic (last?) fighter flight would be cool.

I wish they would bring back the 'boom' for all airshows! I'd like to see a demo of a four-flight making a supersonic 'break' for landing approach! I've read that the planes and the 'boom' arrive at the same instant! *sigh*