Shaffer
05-06-03, 07:40 AM
There was a time not so very long ago when air shows at Cherry Point were simply recruiting events, not the extravaganzas that attract 100,000 people over the course of a weekend.
I was the public affairs officer at Cherry Point from 1982 to 88, and part of my job was to produce the air show, said retired Maj. Dennis Brooks, who now lives in River Bend. The first show I did, there were no civilian acts. We had military planes doing demonstrations, and lots of static displays, but no civilian involvement whatsoever.
The shows were fairly simple often impromptu events. Not the two-day and Friday night spectacle that ended at Cherry Point Air Station Sunday. Again a second day crowd arrived at the air station Sunday under overcast skies to see the Golden Knights, Blue Angels and other acts.
Things were much simpler years ago but not less popular.
http://www.jacksonvilledailynews.com/Details.cfm?StoryID=12259
I was the public affairs officer at Cherry Point from 1982 to 88, and part of my job was to produce the air show, said retired Maj. Dennis Brooks, who now lives in River Bend. The first show I did, there were no civilian acts. We had military planes doing demonstrations, and lots of static displays, but no civilian involvement whatsoever.
The shows were fairly simple often impromptu events. Not the two-day and Friday night spectacle that ended at Cherry Point Air Station Sunday. Again a second day crowd arrived at the air station Sunday under overcast skies to see the Golden Knights, Blue Angels and other acts.
Things were much simpler years ago but not less popular.
http://www.jacksonvilledailynews.com/Details.cfm?StoryID=12259