Vintage USAF Thunderbirds Patch

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Here is an original patch of USAF Thunderbirds circa late fifties early sixties. Thunderbirds started flying the F-100 Super Sabre in 1956. So it's vintage patch that I found on eBay. It has some staining on the yellow backing. Mostly you don't see patches like this. Thought it would be really cool on my repro L-2A. It is of the era.

 

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also here https://www.airforce.com/thunderbirds/museum

 

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From the golden age of jets.

 

[Pa12]

Every time I hear of the thunderbirds I get sad. Back in 88 they were here for the CNE air show on the Labour Day weekend. They were using our hangar and I became quite “friendly “ with a cute little avionics girl on the team. It just so happened that I was scheduled to go on a Garret engine course the following month in Phoenix. So we arranged a dirty weekend (or week) as she was based in Nevada. Well, a week before I was to leave, the boss cancelled it and sent me to Toulouse for a month on the atr42 course. Damn! I think he must have been on to me.

 

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Lol. I don't know if we see them on west coast like Abbotsford Airshow. Usually the Navy. I have great memories of the Abbotsford Airshow in 1975 when a lot of WW2 US aces were flying their P-51's.

 

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Blue Angels.

 

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Had my 1975 Abbotsford Airshow program signed by aces. Years later my mom would throw it away. Thinking it was taking up space or something like mom's do.

 

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I was looking up Thunderbirds and they had a really bad day when four planes flew into the ground because the leader was off.. altimeter was off. Don't know.. crashed and the others followed the leader.. sad stuff.

 

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Had my 1975 Abbotsford Airshow program signed by aces. Years later my mom would throw it away. Thinking it was taking up space or something like mom's do.

Been there. I had perfectly preserved corgi toys that are very valuable now. My mum gave them to my nephew who destroyed them.

 

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Corgi's ya had Hot Wheels. Stuff like that. The track for the hot wheels.

 

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Every time I hear of the thunderbirds I get sad. Back in 88 they were here for the CNE air show on the Labour Day weekend. They were using our hangar and I became quite “friendly “ with a cute little avionics girl on the team. It just so happened that I was scheduled to go on a Garret engine course the following month in Phoenix. So we arranged a dirty weekend (or week) as she was based in Nevada. Well, a week before I was to leave, the boss cancelled it and sent me to Toulouse for a month on the atr42 course. Damn! I think he must have been on to me.

Hate that when that happens! Lol.