The Breitling Jet Team Returns to the Miramar Air Show

Pack your earplugs and practice your “Oorah!” for the Miramar Air Show, which celebrates 100 years of the Marine Corps Reserve September 23–25. The all-day demo of aerobatic stunts features the Breitling Jet Team, whose seven black-and-silver jets slip the surly bonds of earth for loops, barrel rolls, and other stunts. More highlights include a pyrotechnic bombing run and troop deployment by the Marine Air-Ground Task Force, a plane whose vertical takeoff and landing seem straight out of sci-fi, and a zero-gravity parabolic dive flown by the Blue Angels’ first female pilot: Captain Katie Higgins, who joined the team after serving hundreds of combat hours overseas. Here come the jets—little world, step aside.

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The Breitling Jet Team Returns to the Miramar Air Show

Photo: Katsuhiko Tokunaga