Every year, the Air Combat Command (ACC) Demo Teams and several dedicated Warbird owners gather at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona to renew their formation certification so they may perform "Heritage Flights" at various airshows throughout the summer.
Here are some views of the ACC participants:
Raptor Demo .. 1st FW .. Langley, AFB
QF-4E Phantoms from Tyndal and Holoman AFBs respectively
Viper West Demo .. Hill AFB, Utah
Viper East Demo .. Shaw AFB, South Carolina
Hope everyone gets a chance to see a Heritage Flight at some point this summer. It's a very moving experience.
The Warbird participants included three P-51s, a P-40 and a P-38 but unfortunately, the WWII fighters fly a much tighter pattern for landing and good, clean looks at them were very hard to come by other than some belly shots.
Yours truly was shooting from off base (better light) and the formations were "playing" to what would normally be show center on base and as such, their "banana passes" were flown away from where I was located. Such is the life of a "fence hanger..."
Enjoy...
