Missing Man
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Missing Man
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
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Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.
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The Rocky Mountain Renegades preform a "Missing Man" flyby at the recent Longmont, Colorado Air Expo at Vance Brand airport. The missing man formation is an aerial salute performed as part of an aircraft flyby at a funeral or memorial event, typically in memory of a fallen pilot. In the movie Hell Divers from 1932, the closing flyby shows a missing man formation. U.S. Navy F/A-18 jets flew a missing man formation at a memorial service for astronaut Neil Armstrong on 31 August 2012.
In 1936, King George V received the first recorded flyby for a non-RAF funeral. The United States adopted the tradition in 1938 during the funeral for Major General Oscar Westover with over 50 aircraft and one blank position. By the end of World War II, the missing man formation had evolved to include the pull-up of the aircraft representing the missing pilot. In April 1954, United States Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg was buried at Arlington National Cemetery without the traditional horse-drawn artillery caisson. Instead, Vandenberg was honored by a flyover of jet aircraft with one plane missing from the formation.
Fly heading three-three-zero Oz, climb and maintain...
Image copyright 2016 Jon Burch Photography.
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July 7th, 2016
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