Bethpage Federal Credit Union Air Show's Latest Target: Intercontinental Visitors

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Almost 60 feet long with a 40 foot wingspan, the blue and gold darts pass a few hundred feet above the runway, bank steeply in tight formation, drop like stones and come straight at you, passing your seats 30 feet off the ground doing, oh, about 200 miles an hour.

The engine howl follows as you watch the Navy F/A-18 Hornets strike straight up, standing on their tails, wing-to-wing, before separating, looking not so much like airplanes as petals of a flower.

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Bethpage Federal Credit Union Air Show's Latest Target: Intercontinental Visitors

This and more jaw-dropping, high-tech acrobatics will be on display Memorial Day weekend, when aviation enthusiasts from around the world, a quarter million str...

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