Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Air Show...Part 2 (The Thunderbirds)

After we saw a bunch of demonstrations of various fighter jets and what not, the day ended with a performance by The Thunderbirds, which is the Air Force's elite Air Demonstration Squadron. They fly six F-16 jets and perform around 80 times a year. It was quite impressive.

Here's a video of four of them in their delta formation:

In this one, four are flying in the delta formation and one of the solo planes flies through the middle of their formation. I did a really bad job of filming it, but you can still get the general idea.

So if you're ever in the Las Vegas area at the beginning of November, I'd highly recommend dropping by the air show. It's free and it's really good times. But be sure to bring camping chairs or something, otherwise you'll have to stand all day and that part kinda sucks. Yes.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Cool. I didn't know you guys went to this!

AGAIN, where was my invite??

j/k -- I'll drop it now. really.