It’s A Circus But It's Not Funny - The 1953 National Aircraft Show is a circus without clowns. Thrills are evoked by power, precision and speed, and there is no comedy. Everything is impressive and almost grim. Most spectacular of yesterday’s opening day events at Dayton Municipal Airport was the Marines’ demonstration of an attack on two "enemy” pillboxes. Men, dropped to the ground by heliocopters, sent traces of gun and cannon fire into the sun-lit air. Spectators watched jet fighter-bombers zoom from the sky and shoot rockets to the ground. Little clouds of smoke could be seen leaving a plane's wings, and then there would be a burst of flame near a pillbox, a loud crack in the air, and a quivering of the earth. Later, planes returned with napalm fire bombs, which, when released, sent thick balls of black and red smoke from the pillboxes to the level of the jet...

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