USAF Thunderbird show

USAF demonstration squadron (Thunderbird) was created in 1953. It is the third-oldest formal aerobatic team, after the French Airforce Patrouille de France created in 1931 and the US Navy Blue Angels created in 1946. The squadron tours the US as well as the world. Its name was originated from the mythology of North American culture [1].

I went only one show from the Thunderbird team. For the show site, I had to walk two and half an hour each way with a heavy backpack. Here are some pictures I took in that show in 2009.

 

Major Christopher Austin, Left Wing:

Ascending:

The emblem under the bird:

Formation of four:

Feeling dizzy when you are upside down?

"Hi, man, don't touch me, you are too close to me!"

"I won't."

 

Here are two marches and a song related to Air Force or aviation:

USAF march, music by Alan Scott; lyrics by Keith Textor :

USAF song by Robert Crawford :

Music sheet from wiki [1]:

 

The original music sheet [2] of USAF song by the composer Robert Crawford:

 

Flieger Marsch (Germany, airman march):

 

 

 

 

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Thunderbirds

[2]. https://www.afhra.af.mil/Research/Air-Force-Song-History/

 

哇！还以为是老李同学呢。夏老师真是兴趣广泛，涉猎广泛。这帖子太赞了！

有摄影，有音乐，有英文，棒！

美国空军世界第一可以单挑全世界，世界第二的空军是美国海军，，，，，航空兵。

看来喜爱航空的大有人在啊

美国空军这么强啊！

在北京郊区有个空军展览馆，品种略显单一。门外也排了一大串，可都是歼--5

美国确实是航空爱好者的最佳国家，数量多，品种齐全

超一流第一。俄罗斯能少许蹭一点边列第二

细细品味一下老夏的照片

2009，用炮筒子拍摄的照片，当时的DSLR和镜头还大致处于初级阶段，可见老夏当时已经是高端玩家。

老夏拍摄的几张编队飞行，是THUNDERBIRD经典MOVES，想补充点啥都难。

唯一的缺憾是阴天，但是这不是老夏的错。有点不解的是为啥走俩小时去现场。一般来说航展的停车场与展区十分钟内可以达到。是不是老夏的领导把车开走逛街去了。

哇，超一流第一！这个到底有多强？！

OH，YEAH ：--））！记得在一个空军博物馆看到一辆俄罗斯的军车，

质量可差了，有一段时间美国还有这种军车比赛，车子连续驾驶超过多少小时就能拿奖，哈哈，寒碜俄国的。

酷！！

被乌克兰防空火力压制得俄空天军越来越没作为了，别说对美空军仅美国海空军就可足够压制了

在所有可以对比的机型里，几乎美国都处于领先

不但在技术上，而且在数量上都领先。

美国空军不但单机领先，而且在各种机型的协同也处于领先地位

美国海军实力更强，照样单挑全世界。

F-22发动机不开turbo超音速巡航，技术代差全世界都远追不上，那是美国20年前的技术，F-22停产多年根本就用不上

美国现役主力战机升级后恐怕也领先俄一代，比单机更强的是强大系统

I moved to this city without my car,

without my xxxx, because my boss said my car was a junk (1990 Camry LE, manual shift, already had 234 K miles. In fact, it was not a junk). It happened that the show was on a weekend, there was no public bus available on this route in the weekend. So I decided to walk, two and half an hour one way. And this was not my only visit to the marine base, I thought there had been at least 3-4 times with my legs. By the way this city has a glorious feature: every morning, it is cloudy. Being sunny in the afternoon is the mercy from the God. But being cloudy is good for catching "sound boom"!

I bought this Nikon D70 from B&H, at the end of 2004, when it was first on the market. Lens is Sigma 50-500 mm, they called it as "silent motor". Other lens, when you focus, you could hear the sound of the motor as well as the gear.

Thank you all for viewing. I did not PS. It could make

picture look better. I have done this before but not this time. 

谢谢！

谢谢老李，要不是你，我根本没想贴。

把D70的快门都折磨坏了。

看来你百宝箱里的存货很多！请多分享。

good shots.

Thank you! Need to be improved..

Nice pics!

Thank you. Not perfect at all. Need to be better.

飞机AIR FRAME是一部分，而飞机上的电子系统几乎同样重要，老毛子在这方面不但落后于老美，甚至已经开始落后于中国

世界第三空军是美国国民警卫队航空兵。无论装备质量数量，人员配备和训练，当仁不让。没有哪个国家的空军敢来抢第三。

呵呵，俄罗斯能排到第五，就阿弥陀佛廖。中共算数量大概混个第四，论作战能力，几十年没打过，只是巡航表演，谁知道呢？

没打过仗的军队排行老几？只有打过了才知道。

不止是装备和技术，人才储备世界第一，无人能及。美国舰载机持证飞行员储备３０００多人，中国舰载机飞行员１００冒头２００不到

陆基飞行员上航母，起飞会栽进海里，降落会撞舰或者落水，不用打，自己先挂廖。

中国现在拥有的舰载机飞行员数量，和日本航母末日莱特湾大海战差不多，真打起来，飞机航母还有，飞行员打光，没得玩廖。

哇！美帝这么强！欢迎来美语世界玩～～

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