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| Magic London, ON September 2024 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
That’s right, kids: they’ve officially reached retirement age.
For all the bellyaching around our air force’s demo team flying planes the current pilots’ grandparents might have flown, the very fact that they aren’t front-line fighters is yet another one of those quirky traits that makes them as beloved as they are.
Because when you don’t have huge thrust-to-weight ratios and digital fly-by-wire systems at your disposal, you have to get creative both on the ground and in the air.
Here’s to decades more of making Canadians - the country, never a state - proud. Fly safe, Snowbirds.
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