T-38’s put on a good show... hated their underside paint scheme. Looked too much like automobile racing stripes instead of the beautiful bird silhouettes of the preceding F-4’s and the current F-16’s.
They sure did. My family was living at the Air Force Academy in the mid/late 1970s. As a kid I used to watch the Thunderbirds perform every spring for the cadet graduation from the playground at Douglas Valley Elementary School. They flew over the stadium about a mile away and I could easily watch all of the maneuvers. Having seen a few shows I was familiar with the sneak pass and one year I noticed one of the solo planes coming south along the front range mountains. He did a high bank turn, flew directly over my school, and roared over the stadium just after the diamond formation had done a pass. It was so cool from where I was standing.
