One of two alternate Thunderbirds are being towed to the flightlne. It so happened that on their last display of the year the Thunderbirds had to replace two aircraft, a procedure that took about 15 minutes. From what I could gather was that one of them were not producing enough power and the other one, only the Thunderbirds know!.
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