http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/10/thunderbirds-take-flight-tico-airshow-titusville/98965634/
This is my "rant" in a letter to the Editor of Florida Today:
We have been going to the TiCo Warbird Airshow in Titusville for many years. Yesterdays show was, as usual, excellent and you can tell a lot of people put in a lot of volunteer time and effort for this event to be so seamlessly wonderful. But, there is always room for improvement, and there was one thing that did not sit well with me, or the people I attended the show with......the Thunderbirds production. Don't misread me here please...the flying and precision, as always, was awesome and inspiring. The Air Force does send their best pilots, no doubt. That being said though, the pre-show hoopla was too long, too self-congratulatory and the real kicker was the 'music' that was not only too loud but extremely irritating. We were prisoners being forced to listen to TERRIBLE sounds for at least 20 minutes before the first Thunderbird left the ground. If they had timed it right, and had the demonstration start right after the enlistment ceremonies, and had chosen either patriotic music or anything else that was NOT an irritant, we would have left the show with a smile on a face instead of the comment: "WHAT were they thinking, and WHO do they think is their audience?". Because of this, I will probably NOT attend another air show where the Thunderbirds perform...it was that off-putting. Sorry for my negativity on this, but it really was a bummer.
