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Old March 23rd 06, 03:42 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Blue Angels Question(s)

In a previous article, "three-eight-hotel" said:
as 18 inches to each other. If this is true, and I have no reason to
believe it isn't, I have to wonder if they ever bump into one another?


A few months ago two Thunderbirds made contact, and one knocked the
missile rail off the other. Nobody was hurt and everybody landed
successfully.

awareness, or do they use ground references? My thought was that one
of them could be lined up to fly right down the runway center-line, and
the other could line up just outside the runway which should guarantee
separation??? Their timing, so that they cross right at midfield is
amazing!


Snowbirds usually use the two edges of the runway.


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