From 2022 (YouTube Edition): Before They’re All Gone… Humankind has been messing about in airplanes for almost 120-years. In that time, thousands of aircraft representing innumerable technologies, design philosophies, and aspirations both noble and contemptible have been built and flown. Airshows—the good ones—are lenses into aviation’s past. Events like AirVenture, Sun ‘n Fun, and Frontiers in Flight afford modern audiences glimpses of aircraft that shaped the world in war, and brought it together in peace. A peculiarity of time is the manner in which it converts ubiquitousness to scarcity. Airplanes that filled the skies in their respective epochs grow rarer, and rarer, and rarer still. The Boeing-247, the DC-3, the 727, Concorde: iconic aircraft all, and all passing, in turn, from relevance, to nostalgia, to obscurity, to oblivion.