Here's the post from Sun n Fun confirming the Viper Demo appearance: https://www.facebook.com/SunNFunFlyIn/posts/2333178213362623 Glad to see the USAF step up and help the shows that will be impacted by the Thunderbirds stand down, similar to what the Navy's Tac Demo teams did when the Blues were mo...

I was there yesterday. That was pretty interesting. Between the fires caused by the Tora Wall of Fire, the fireworks cooking off because of the fires, and one Zero having tail wheel issues (landed safely - it was pretty cool to see). The disappointing part was some of the afternoon acts didn't fly,...

I hope everyone enjoyed the early fireworks display!

https://www.facebook.com/DestinationBre ... XiHnrRqoC4

alexp2805- wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:47 pm Was it 5 jets because of aircraft being very old causing the 6th jet to stay at the airport or was it to show condolences to the Thunderbirds?

Broken jet, I'm sure.

Video of the Blues over Texas A&M today:

https://twitter.com/12thmanfndtn/status ... 29/video/1

A couple links to add to this story. First is the NTSB's preliminary report that describes the accident: https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20180326X24908&AKey=1&RType=HTML&IType=LA Second is a map showing where Rob ended up: https://www.google.com/maps/@2...

For those not keeping full track of the airshow community, Thunderbird #4 was killed in a crash yesterday during practice. https://airshowstuff.com/v4/2018/thunderbird-4-killed-in-f-16-crash-near-creech-afb/ This will almost certainly entail at least 2 months of show cancellations, if not more. They...

The name has been released, and as expected it was Thunderbird #4 who was killed.

https://airshowstuff.com/v4/2018/thunde ... reech-afb/

The Blue Angels will be flying over Texas A&M tomorrow around 9:30am!

https://www.facebook.com/USNavyBlueAnge ... 9603623815

Very little news coming out tonight. I wonder if this is tied up with the Air Force's recent move to cut off media access to units. I suspect now that we will not get official confirmation of it being a Thunderbird (or not) until the pilot's name is released, which I expect to happen tomorrow. It is...