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by jmward01 36 days ago
They do training all day every day in these planes. Air shows are probably less exciting than the stuff they practice to do. Also, while they a generically '18's' they are EA-18g's and possibly have enough differences to require maintaining a separate NATOPs check from the other variants. (never flown one so I don't actually know though :). Either way, other than the blue angles who can't be everywhere and don't represent the diversity of platforms out in the fleet, there really aren't dedicated airshow aircraft out there.
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> blue angles

Top-performing trig team with tangent flight that (hopefully) never intersects.

:)

> Air shows are probably less exciting than the stuff they practice to do.

Well, except for this time.

The Air Force has their own demonstration team named The Thunderbirds.