Priority override Archimedes.
The Thunderbirds did a flyover of Austin and San Antonio yesterday.
I shot this video from our back porch. I wasn’t sure which direction they’d be coming from or what altitude they would be out, so I erred on the side of shooting at a wider angle.
One of the things I feel lucky about in my life: I visited Las Vegas before 9/11. Which means Mike the Musicologist and I were lucky enough to tour the Thunderbirds museum before it was closed off to anyone without a DoD ID. We were also lucky enough to be able to take the Hard Hat Tour of Hoover Dam. I need to dig out my hard hat from storage.
(I still have never actually seen the Thunderbirds at an air show. The Blue Angels, yes, when I was really young.)
Bonus video, just for the heck of it: “Odyssey 1977”, video of the F-18 prototype at the Paris Air Show that year.