RobMoser
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Hi Rodolfo! Long time no talk 
Actually, as you can see from what I posted, I really prefer to fill the frame with the plane as opposed to more sky and smoke and smaller plane. Given that, I favor long lenses. For this weekend, 2/3 of my pictures were taken with the 180-600 and the remaining were taken with the 800. So generally speaking, smaller planes went on the 800. I actually had a z 1.4 and a 2.0 in the bag but used neither. I was right on the taxiway but if I'd been at Barksdale where you're farther from the box, I would have used one or the other.
The 800 is too much lens for formations but great for the smaller planes.. At the same time, as Jim has said, pictures of planes at the far and of the runway were impossible because of the heat shimmer. As long as they were up in the air, I was fine on the 800.
As a general purpose lens, I would go with the 180-600 as a more generally useful lens. Unless you're going to get into tiny bird pictures, the 800 is probably not going to get used as much. And there were a lot of pictures where I just picked up the zoom because things were bigger and close. I particularly put my info on each picture I posted so you can get some idea of how the two lenses worked for me. And honestly, if I wanted pictures on the taxiway of aircraft, the 800 as pretty useless. Way to close .
As I said, I prefer to fill the frame with the plane, even if I lose a wingtip here or there (as you can see). And even there, the zoom worked for most of the airshow.
Of course, for me, I took both (and I actually had a D850 with a 24-120 for ramp pictures). But as a general purpose lens, I would get the 180-600 unless you're a nutcase like me
Hope that helps!
Rob
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