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At the opening ceremonies we started with a Parade of Nations down
the main street of Manilla to the show grounds, and then an air show over the
show grounds with a variety of aircraft, and then the official FAI speeches, and
finally a fireworks show. Estimated cost of the whole event was something like
$400,000 (probably a large part of that was getting the fighter jets to come
overhead and do aerial maneuvers for the crowd).


This morning there were some clouds already developing at 8am, so I was thinking
it would get big and OD later on.


After the task was announced everyone got ready, but the sky was looking big and
after a few minutes of everyone standing around in their gear (cooking in the
heat), the safety committee decided to cancel the day due to the extremely big
development around, and the 3 rain cells that were visible all around the
mountain (and they weren’t just in one direction, but all around us, so it was
pretty obvious the conditions were getting worse and worse).