"EAA has always maintained that the TFR legislation was an
ill-considered policy based on the economic dominance of
professional sports leagues rather than security. That's why EAA
and other aviation organizations stepped in to assist the Cleveland
air show organizers in any way possible. What happened there showed
how the inflexibility of this legislation hurt a long-standing air
show tradition in that city, while not enhancing security one
bit."
Source: Doug Macnair, EAA's vice president of
government relations, backing a federal bill that would grant
waivers to airshows in restricted airspace or near major sporting
events. Case in point: The Cleveland National Air Show, which,
because of a ballgame at Jacobs Field, had to curtail the first
night of its Labor Da