{"id":137111,"date":"2024-10-06T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-shows-fun-facts-list\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T05:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T19:00:13","slug":"air-shows-5-fun-facts-you-might-not-have-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=137111","title":{"rendered":"Air Shows: 5 Fun Facts You Might Not Have Known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/airshows.aero\/Page\/AboutAS-Facts\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >International Council of Airshows reports<\/a> that nearly 10-12 million people attend airshows in             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"205683\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/north-america\/\"  >North America<\/a><\/span> each year. There are more than 300 airshow pilots in the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> and             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"182703\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/canada\/\"  >Canada<\/a><\/span> alone. Airshows started taking place almost half a decade after the Wright Brothers took to the skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These shows generate millions of dollars, but also see pilot fatalities each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,3945,11309,13240,3944,408,2692],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airshows","category-aviation-event","category-commercial-aviation","category-farnborough-airshow","category-history","category-key-facts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137112,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137111\/revisions\/137112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}