What is up with the strange cloud formations? Is that an air show?
USAF Thunderbirds, performing at the New York International Air Show back in September. I believe that they were drawing a heart in that maneuver if the newspaper was correct, but I can't say for sure since I'm not willing to pay for a ticket when I get this kind of show from my back deck:
Both the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels form up into their formations for their next easterly passes right over my house whenever they perform at the airshow.....
I spent much of my life a few blocks from the Confederate Air Force HQ (now renamed, expanded, and moved to other airports).
We would see not only the BA's and T'birds, but all those older warbirds zooming over the house at 500-2000 ft on final, absolutely awesome.
Plus they would practice all the week before AirSho weekend (not good if working deep nights, urg...). Still bought tickets for the family, wanted my kids to get the 'closeup' experience (we would anyway as some acquaintances were top CAF brass).
You ain't lived until Fifi (one of a two still flying B-29's) or a wing of B-17's shakes the leaves off of your big ol' Bo tree and you count the bomb bay rivets. Man, that was forty, almost fifty years ago,
and Fifi is still flying (been in it and many of the others).
HRL was a big WWII AAF training base (nav, gunnery, A&P mostly), with several outlying aux fields. When you taxied out, the taxiways still had the faint WWII aircraft 'type' parking assignment markings along them. All changed now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_Air_Forcehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress#Surviving_aircraft