Clear Skies, Precise Formation: A Heritage Flight Worth the Fuel

A cloudless day gave USAF's Heritage Flight program exactly the conditions it needs: unrestricted visibility and stable air to hold a current-generation fighter and a vintage warbird in close formation, aircraft with very different speeds and handling flying wingtip to wingtip. AVweb's Picture of the Day caught the pairing against clean blue sky, the kind of light and calm the program depends on to put a modern jet and a piece of aviation history in the same frame. For anyone who has flown formation, or just tried to schedule around weather, it is a reminder of how much a good day in the air is worth.

With reporting from AVweb.