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    Default US Air Force Academy Graduation Day

    Or as I call it... Rattle Everything Off the Walls Day.

    Here are the Thunderbirds making a hard left over the house in order to make another pass down to the academy. Viewing conditions were poor this year, with low clouds and dense haze.

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    The perils of living above the Air Force Academy? Your pets wet the floor and hide under the bed 4 times per year:
    1) The Air Force vs. Army or Navy football game
    2) Graduation Day
    3) & 4) the practice day for each

    I was on a work Zoom when practice started up yesterday. One of my peers asked where I was calling from, 'Nam? I had to just give up and mute.

    I wouldn't have it any other way.

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    Nice photo Jeff. Thanks for sharing. I know what you mean by pets being frightened. I once lived on top of a hill and witnessed an RAF Nimrod, followed by two others, flying across the valley "below" me, really quite close. Boy did that create a racket. Then occasionally, the RAF would have practice dogfights in the skies above our house. Great entertainment for us but the animals hated it. Rare occassions, but memorable.

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    Didn’t have that issue, did ‘enjoy’ the RAF ground running Vulcans at Finningley in the evening. Now I just have the lions from the wildlife park roaring at feeding times to scare the cat.

    Never Knowingly Undergunned !!

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    "Thunderbirds" - well named!
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    Blessed place...

    ...I wanted to live close to airfield / airport, but my wife had another opinion.



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