Air show's new sizzle

What’s the perfect complement to an air show?

The answer, of course, is a steak dinner.

This little quiz goes toward explaining why we’re so pleased about this summer’s revival, after a one-year absence, of the Wings over Baker show at the Baker City Municipal Airport.

But the display of pilots’ aerobatic skills isn’t the only thing that’s being rejuvenated.

This year’s event, set for July 23-24, is combined with another popular, and more venerable, Baker County tradition: the Durkee Steak Feed.

But rather than accept the demise of these two events, supporters, chief among Wings over Baker promoter Mel Cross, decided to save both by combining them.

Sure, the Durkee Steak Feed for the first time will take place outside Durkee.

But we figure most people would rather have the steak feed at the Baker City airport than to forego the event altogether.

We already went without both Wings over Baker and the steak feed for one summer.

And that was long enough for us.