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Old 22nd Nov 2011, 11:27
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USAF Skyblazers

Slight thread drift,

Talking of past display teams,I vote for the USAF Europe team in the 50s/60s
the "Skyblazers" with five F100 Super Sabres tearing the place up.

Lots of low level high speed passes/manouvers with full afterburners.

The speciallity being the Diamond four pass with wheels down, then with an exagerated very long afterburner flame as they pulled up.The single aircraft would then do a high speed low pass under the diamond four with same long flame afterburner.
This was achieved by injecting neat fuel into the full afterburner exhaust, the flame was about 8-10 meters long.
You had to be there, those were the days.

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