No less than three Tomcats and three Phantoms are headed by an SR-71 Blackbird during a high-speed, low-level flyby over NAWS China Lake.
22 F-14 Tomcat impressive last formation flying
U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress leads a formation of aircraft including two Polish air force F-16 Fighting Falcons, four U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, two German Eurofighter Typhoons and four Swedish Gripens over the Baltic Sea, June 9, 2016. The formation was captured from a KC-135 from the 434th Air Refueling Wing
North American XB-70A Valkyrie in formation.
Did someone order some freedom?
Avro Vulcan B.2 (XH561) of the Waddington Wing leading four English Electric Lightning F.6s of 5 Squadron in a formation to mark the formation of RAF Strike Command on 30 April 1968.
To be continued…
That photo of the XB-70 Valkyrie is pretty special, as it was the last moments for this aircraft and the XB-70 program.
It was one of 2 airframes ever made, and on this day it was the centerpiece in a line up of GE powered military aircraft assembled for a PR shot. They flew in formation for around 20 minutes, until the Starfighter on the right got a little too close under the wing of the Valkyrie. It made contact and rolled across the top of the Valkyrie, wiping off the vertical stabilizers, and both aircraft crashed.