In article , Michael wrote:
Nice photos. Formation flying is a blast and it's really a shame more
people don't do it. You can do it in any airplane (unlike aerobatics)
and it breeds a certain precision in your flying because you must fly
relative to another object, something most pilots do for only a few
seconds at a time as they land.

Three of us flew from Houston to OSH in formation (in two aircraft, a
C170 and C140) a couple of years ago. It takes some concentration doing
that on a long cross country :-)

The most mismatched formation I've flown in was a flight of four - a
C140, a Grumman Tiger, a C170 and a...Bonanza! The C140 was going
flat-out, the Bonanza had full flaps (but gear up). Fortunately, that
was only a 30nm trip. It gets expensive flying a Bonanza that slowly on
Hobbs time.

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