Turns out we were too late to take the shuttle into the base where the show was, so we parked on the side of a private road, aka, the cheap seats. The view was still great. Oliver liked playing with his letters and numbers for most of the show, and was good at plugging his ears; but when he saw the Blue Angels fly over us he yelled out, "How many?" I think that was his way of saying, "That was so cool!"
As for the science of this post, and according to the Blue Angels website, the fastest these F/A-18 Hornet planes go is Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound. However, the fastest they go for an air show is 700 mph which is just under Mach 1. To the viewer, this is pretty darn fast. The closest the jets get to each other at any one time during the show is 18 inches. Whoa! The show requires hundreds of hours of training, and you can imagine why.
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While deleting a post before this, I deleted this post and then the comment that came with it. So thanks Jo for commenting and sorry I deleted your comment.
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