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There are different rules for flying in an airshow [1]. Here's a very crude summary.

There's a designated area where the aircraft do their show in and there are not supposed to be spectators in that area.

Airshow craft can fly over spectator areas but not when doing anything dangerous and if they are high enough.

The US actually has some of the most stringent airshow safety rules in the world, which is why most of the time when there is an accident that kills a lot of spectators at an airshow it is not in the US. Plenty of pilots have been killed in US airshows, but the shows are carefully planned so that if something goes wrong the planes should crash away from spectators.

I don't know if drone shows are subject to the same rules.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/airshow/Air_Show_Speci...