The Confederate Air Force (CAF) does the granddaddy of all warbird airshows every October, in an unlikely place called Midland, Texas. The airport is located between the towns of Odessa and Midland, and while it is a superb location to fly an airshow (flat, no obstructions, no noise complaints except from armadillos), it's a million miles from anywhere across the sere desert that is West Texas. It takes us about six hours to fly there from Camarillo, Calif. In the old Curtiss-Wright C-46, and it probably takes more than that for folks to drive there - from the nearest town.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/pelicans-perch-38airsho-2000-the-agony-and-the-ecstasy