"John Clear" wrote in message
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The Snowbirds are a much more interesting jet team. Their jets
are slower, so they have to come up with more things to do then
just turning jet fuel into noise. With a nine plane formation,
they can come up with some interesting things, like a Canadian
goose.

I agree with you strangely enough about the Snows. I did an aerobatic eval
as a guest of the team flying their #10 Tutor at the Reading Show in the US
once and got to spend a lot of time with them. Their mission profile is
different from ours in the states and they have much more latitude in the
"crowd pleasing" department.
Their choice of maneuvers reflect this and is directly attributable to their
founder, Col O. B. Phillip, who laid out the way the team would perform.
I like the Canadian approach.
It was decided long ago that the main thrust of both the Thunderbird and
Blue Angel demonstrations would reflect tactical maneuvering and not the
showmanship type demonstration followed by the Snows. What you are seeing
today in our team's demonstration format reflects about as far into the
showmanship end of things as the military has been willing to go.......so
far anyway :-)))))
Dudley Henriques