Sometimes, you can be part of the story.
One of the advantages of serving in the USAF was great access to airshows - usually behind the scenes as a maintenance technician helping to launch the aircraft. By 1979 I had enough rank to be able to enjoy the show as an onlooker.
Yes it's the USAF Thunderbirds!
I didn't know it at the time, but the C-123 in the background was part of the reserve squadron in Chicopee MA that was my next duty station.
The C-5A: still the largest operational aircraft in the USAF