Originally Posted by
OvertHawk
Brief it - Fly it.
Limits are there for reasons, especially in display / formation / aerobatics.
History is full of examples of what goes wrong when you break those limits and many people have died - including "civilians" on the ground.
The Thunderbirds themselves have suffered a number of tragedies as a result of deliberate or inadvertent deviation from SOP / minimums including a horrific formation crash that wiped out the whole flight.
I can understand the USAF having zero tolerance of deliberate deviation. She'd been in the job two weeks and she broke the rules twice!!??
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