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Went to an airshow today. The Air Force Acrobatics team had come to this bumfuck nowhere town around seven years ago, just when I was watching Aozora Shoujotai and had temporarily decided to try to become a pilot, but in the end I was out of the country on that day and really missed not seeing them, I saw a video by an Air Combat enthusiast on youtube on his city (they were doing a national tour) and it looked amazing, but I met a guy who went that day and said the weather sucked with rain and bad visibility. Anyways today I was informed just an hour before the show, and decided to go watch, it was just a 10 min walk from my place.
The news just said it was on the waterfront, and I tried to find any indication of the best viewing spot, but couldn't find anything. So I kept walking, most people seemed completely oblivious to the upcoming spectacle, but here and there a couple looked at their phones and scouted the sky with a confused look on their faces. They too were searching for the planes. As I got under a shade and stared at the clear blue sky I thought maybe I got there too early. But them I saw. Ripping through the firmament came seven yellow-blue planes. The show had begun. I stared in absolute awe as they executed every kind of maneuver. They would huddle together and then dissipate one by one, then come from the opposite side on each other like a pair of jousting knights, and thus they danced. Coming extremely close to each other, each time they crossed you could hear the treble gasps of a nearby child. Then they would fly far away and come back very low, the roaring sound overtaking the audience. Sometimes they would enter a cumulus cloud and disappear in the flying snow only to later surface in the blue. They would also break formation, and divide in two or three groups, each of them executing their own maneuvers, and when my eyes turned from one group to the other, I would see some flying gracious figure only to realize I had mistaken the planes for a couple of birds, so gracious were their movements. Now there were two groups, and they defied gravity, flying upside down, doing impressive vertical ascents right above us and coming down full throttle. And in these vertical ascents I saw it. The beautiful maneuver I had seen in the video years ago. As the plane reached the apex, the engine would die and the plane would stop in the air an
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