"Ditch" wrote in message
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The name of the game in the formation acro
business is keeping all the "****" going in one direction!!.

I think in the movie "Threshold: The Blue Angels Experience" they called
it a
500mph skid mark or something to that effect.

That would be Skip Umstead's team. They were the team involved with
"Threshold".
Skip was a great guy and I miss him. It was he who accepted for the Blue
Angels , charter membership in the Fighter Pilots Fellowship. Skip and Mike
Murphy collided at Lakehurst in the F4 Diamond arrival there in July 73.
Both were killed. I was on the way there to have lunch with them when it
happened.
Yup! Those 500mph skid marks can get nasty at times. It's a deadly dangerous
business. Through the years that encompassed my tenure with airshows ,
counting our jet acro team friends, my wife and I can count 32 pilots we
knew personally, many of whom I flew with professionally, who were
killed....many in mid airs. I lost five friends in two separate mid airs in
the same race at the Cape May National Air Races on June 5th in 71 during
the T6 race there.

Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/CFI Retired
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