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After flying in from Las Vegas, six U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilots shut down their engines and popped open their canopies in tandem along a Patrick Space Force Base taxiway.
The Thunderbirds zoomed above the Space Coast and touched down about 4:50 p.m. Thursday in advance of this weekend's Cocoa Beach Air Show.
"This will be the first show of our new full sequence. So everything has been revised this year," said Thunderbirds right wing pilot Maj. Zane "Strobe" Taylor, standing alongside his No. 3 F-16.