Norm?
Someday, plan a trip to Oshkosh for the EAA fly-in. Make sure you get a flight-line pass through an EAA member. Walking among those magnificent machines, scrupulously restored by devotees is a darn-near spiritual experience.
Contemporary warplanes are there, as well as experimental aircraft and some no-longer manufactured, but still in use aircraft like the A10.
There are air-shows several times a day and precision flying stuff that you can't believe EVEN when you see them.
Wear great walking shoes, and plan a couple yearss ahead for a motel. One year I aimed to it, and ended up at a motel almost 60 miles away...getting the last room that wasn't booked for the air-show.
The Concorde was there one year, taking passengers for a one-hour round trip from Oshkosh.....
to MONTREAL, QUEBEC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It also did touch-and-goes. Like watching an aluminum teradactyl play.
You'd love it.