In the early 80s, the Thunderbird CO was killed when he flew through a flock of seagulls at take-off out of Cleveland. A few months later, his replacement lead four Thunderbirds into the ground in a formation crash at Indian Springs.
Ugh. Guess they could have utilized the plastic doggies. Couldn't have hurt and might have helped.
In something sort of related, learned last night that the Thunderbirds flew the F-105 for a few shorts weeks. I guess one broke apart on them and that was that for the Thud era.
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