| The jet engine roars as Colonel Maria Sanchez races the F-35 down the runway. The plane leaps into the air. At 1,000 feet, she banks and circles the Air Force base to give three other fighter planes time to take off and join her.
Sanchez heads north. The three other planes fall into formation around her. Together, the planes make a formation that looks like a trapezoid in the sky.
Sanchez’s plan is to land at a base that is 675 miles away. Sanchez and the others accelerate to 700 miles per hour. They climb to 30,000 feet. Sanchez estimates they’ll be at the base in less than an hour. |
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