I was fortunate that while serving in the USAF we had an alternate for the Thunderbirds on our base. Watching him fly was a good reason to just sit on the ball

I was fortunate that while serving in the USAF we had an alternate for the Thunderbirds on our base. Watching him fly was a good reason to just sit on the ball fields even in the hottest afternoons. One takeaway from a meet and greet was it was real fun for him and all those cool moves are just that, simply cool with little application outside of stunt flying.