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The war in Iraq had just started, the country was on Orange alert status, yet this air show used only portable plastic barricade fencing to separate the public from the performing aircraft. Numerous performing aircraft taxied in front of the wide crowd line and numerous aircraft were on static display for the public. It makes one wonder why Bill Sherry, A.A.E., Airport Director at Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL), kept the public view park on the west side of FLL closed to the public during the 2003 McDonald's Air & Sea Show the first week of May, when the war was all but over and weeks after the national alert status was downgraded to Yellow. The public view park has a permanent seven foot tall metal chain link fence with barbed wire on top, yet the park was deemed a security hazard by the TSA, Broward Sheriff's Office and Bill Sherry? This questionable, illogical and non-sensible bureaucratic closure denied the public the only chance this year to see warbirds, military fights and the Thunderbirds taxiing out, taking off and returning after their performance along Ft. Lauderdale beach.
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