Missing man formation

The U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, perform a missing man formation at the U.S. Naval Academy as an aerial salute to honor the memory of 1st Lt. Travis Manion. The Blue Angels will also perform a missing man formation in honor of Lt. Brendan Looney on May 21. Manion was killed in action in Iraq on April 29, 2007. Looney was killed in action in Afghanistan on Sept. 21, 2010. Both are U.S. Naval Academy graduates and were friends with the current Blue Angel opposing…

Missing Man Formation // This always makes me sad. Throw a nickel on the grass.

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Blue Angels in Hawaii. Missing Man Formation!

Here is part 2 of 25 Interesting Facts About United States Armed Forces. For part 1, click here. 1-5 Interesting Facts About United States Armed Forces 1. In 2008, the Pittsburgh SWAT won the "aerial shoot" of that year's International Sniper Competition at Fort Benning, beating out more than 30 teams from across the world,

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F16's flying missing man formation

The first time I witnessed a ‘missing man formation’ was at the funeral of my grandfather, who flew the B-25 Mitchell during World War II. After his service in the Army Air Corps, he became a commercial pilot for TWA and then ventured into private flight. He died in an airplane crash at the age of 74 and my family gathered with his aviation community at Santa Paula Airport for his memorial.

The "missing man" formation fly-by at Birch Hill cemetary on Memorial Day 2012. —Wes Dunbar, Fairbanks