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Post by Blaze » Sat Sep 25, 2010 6:12 pm

Pretty sweet. 8)

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Post by Lawndart » Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:30 pm

Re-tweeted this the other day after it was posted on the Thunderbirds Facebook page.
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Post by Beaker » Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:58 pm

Very cool, but I had to laugh at the name. :lol: A little cheesy, don't ya think?
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Post by Lawndart » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:46 pm

It must be a new thing, used to be called an 8-Ship Delta.
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Post by Ells » Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:44 am

Just need one more and you'll have our 9 Arrow :wink:
Looks very cool.
Who's flying 7 and 8?
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Post by STRIKER » Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:34 am

DO and narrator I'm guessing...sure wasn't me. :wink:
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Post by Ells » Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:33 pm

Haha, bet you wish you were though, huh Striker.
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Post by Lawndart » Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:39 pm

Ells wrote:Who's flying 7 and 8?
7 & 8
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Post by Sawamura » Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:38 pm

In the trailer for the movie Smoke On, the VTB were also flying an 8-Ship. But in that formation, aircraft #7 and #8 were flying in the Slot position off the Left and Right Wing aircraft (Smoke On Trailer, check from 0:46). :wink:
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Post by Ells » Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:40 pm

Haha, thanks for that LD!

Was watching Smoke On, on my PSP this afternoon actually, still love watching it.
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Post by STRIKER » Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:44 pm

Ells wrote:Haha, bet you wish you were though, huh Striker.
I'm over it. Don't even know if I will ever fly for the USAF ever again but we shall see. Everyday is a challenge.
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Post by Lawndart » Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:09 pm

Sawamura wrote:In the trailer for the movie Smoke On, the VTB were also flying an 8-Ship. But in that formation, aircraft #7 and #8 were flying in the Slot position off the Left and Right Wing aircraft.
Dacades ago, often the jets would return to Nellis flying one of a variety of eight- or nine- (yes, I did say nine) ship formations.

We paid our homage by flying an Eight-ship outhouse (flown in the F-100D's and T-38's in the mid sixties and late seventies, respectively).
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Post by Luse » Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:50 am

Furthest left.

Luggage pods 8)
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Post by Panther » Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:57 am

Luse wrote:Furthest left.

Luggage pods 8)
Got to get the golf clubs home somehow.
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Post by Frazer » Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:44 pm

Gosh, the Berkuts even have their influence in the real world!
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