pkondz
Brace yourself for immediate disintegration
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2007
Well... one less as of a couple days ago. RIP Jennifer Casey.Both the blue angels and the thunderbirds are a 6 ship formation. 4 main and then 2 solos that join in for the delta formation. The snowbirds have a LOT more aircraft.
Interesting! I hadn't thought of that aspect of it.Since I was stationed at Nellis (home of the thunderbirds), I have a bit more interest in aerial demonstration teams than most. The one's from Italy and Great Britain I think are cool in that they use multi colored smoke. I also have to give credit to the snowbirds...when you have a larger formation, it's tougher...the outside edges have a lot more work to stay in formation, where the closer ones don't have as far to move during maneuvers.
Right. I knew that. I meant flyovers in general were being done.Not the national guard per se. Any flying squadron CAN be called in for special events (i.e. flyovers of sporting games and such), but the national guard is not dedicated to that. Air Force - Thunderbirds. Navy - Blue Angels. Army - Golden Knights (parachute not aircraft). Not sure the Marines or Coast Guard have a dedicated team...will have to look that up.
I don't think your Marines or CG have dedicated aerobatic teams.
Yeah... I'll wait a bit on that too.I've mentioned to a few folks...I'm not in a hurry to rush back to Disney when they re-open. I'm not panicky about the virus, but it's still out there and being in such close proximity to that many (even if 25%) people is not my idea of sane or safe.