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Originally Posted by morgin
Would love to see a celebration of flight, but more heavily on the commercial side of things than military. There must be some flying examples of all of the various historical commercial aircraft that have flown into YYC, both in its current location and it's former sites in renfrew and bowness. Having a demonstration (ground and air) of the 100 year history of flight in Calgary would be awesome. I think showcasing the future at the same time would be great - maybe we could get a loaner dreamliner and a380 to put on display too!
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You'd actually be quite surprised by how few flying versions there are out there of a lot of those aircraft. Takes a lot of love and money to keep classics flying. However I think it is a pretty sweet idea!
A forumer over on SSP suggested that BA fly in their A380, not that bad an idea when you remember that they flew Concorde here when the new terminal opened up: