Why I'm against bringing the Thunderbirds

[Bill Berson]

EAA has certainly abandoned the core and I have complained as much or more than anyone. Like Ron said, it happened over time. Actually, it started from the very beginning in the 1950’s. Everything aviation was welcome at the early Fly-ins and growth was always the goal. But back then most of the articles in Sport Aviation were directed to home building or restoration.
The problem is that Airventure is the template and source for Sport Aviation articles through the following year. (Tom admitted this in his column). While I might enjoy watching the T- Birds more than the usual air show stuff( that I usually ignore), I sure don't want the cover of Sport Aviation to feature the T-Birds with a full feature article about the life of the jet pilots. The cover should be homebuilts or sport aircraft and the majority of feature articles should be sport aviation related.
Jack said EAA is now defined as "Personal Aviation". But I don't see that.
Military, commercial aviation and Business Aviation ain't personal aviation.

So, I guess I am more concerned with the content of Sport Aviation than Airventure. I always enjoy Oshkosh, but don't care to receive the current Sport Aviation anymore.