Thunderbirds and Blue Angels
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These things give me the heebie jeebies. I was at an airshow, watching them and thinking 'it looks so dangerous, but it must actually be safe', and then one of the jets crashed. The poor guy died. I'd just said goodbye to wife and son, who were driving home near where the plane went down, so I had a rather stressful couple of hours waiting to hear from them.
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Very cool video!! Amazing the pilot skills they have!
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They did a flyby over Chicago a couple of days ago. Sadly, our home was not under any of the flight paths, and I could see them only when they flew about 3 miles north of my home. It lasted 15 seconds or so.
By the way, it costs about $20,000 per hour (fuel and maintenance) to fly an F18, or $120K per hour for this flight.
That's a lot of masks.