whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:
I wonder how many B-17s they could get in there.
Back in the late 80's (88?) I went to the show with my dad and I believe they had 6-8 B-17's there. I was too young (4 or 5) to appreciate it and was very upset when they where all in the air fly their
boring circuits asking my dad, "Why aren't they doing any tricks?"
From a Google Search, I found that Mike Harney had a grown up perspective on that show wrote:

This 1988 airshow featured six B-17s, the largest gathering of B-17s since at least the '60s. There haven't been this many together since, even for the filming of "Memphis Belle," which did a good job of making you believe they used more than the five B-17s they did have. I took this shot of the tails of all six at about 7:30 on the first morning after all had arrived, just after the fog burned off the airfield and before too many people showed up. This turned out to be one of very few opportunities during the long weekend in which anyone could get a picture which included all six aircraft without hundreds of people blocking the shot. Austin Wadsworth, president of the museum, still had my enlargement of this picture on his wall the last time I visited. "Proof it really happened," he said.
Quote from:
http://home.comcast.net/~mharneyma/dept.html