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Originally Posted by tcar
The USAF Thunderbirds just flew over.... honoring Virus workers.
On their way to the AF Academy graduation.
Very cool.
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I have been lucky enough to have seen the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angles more than once. The precision flying is always cool. It makes me just wonder at the speed and power of those machines. One stunt they like to do is have one aircraft sort of vanish and as the main group is doing something in front of the crowd, one lone aircraft drops down a little lower and comes blasting over head from behind us. It is like he appears of of thin air. And I am always happy he is on our side. If we were the bad guys and he wanted to drop some ordnance we would just be gone with no warning.
I saw a SR-71 take off in Hawaii as a kid and I had never heard of it. It looked like a extraterrestrial ship compared to any other aircraft. One air show in Oklahoma City had one fly in after a few low passes, and it was on display. That was everyone's favorite.