The extremely bad weather in August 1998, which had already affected the airshow at Kecskemét and the seaplane meeting on Berlin's Wannsee, continued a week later when the airshow marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Polish Air Force took place at Dęblin. Much more than by the weather, however, the author's enjoyment was spoilt by the fact that the Polish Air Force itself was hardly represented and its MiG-21s (apart from an exhibit of the local museum) not at all, while visitors from (Western) countries dominated the programme. So the long journey was not really worthwhile ...
