This weekend, the Bell Fort Worth Alliance Air Show is taking place, giving us all a chance to stop posting diatribes about politics online for a few minutes and watch some airplanes.

The Air Force Thunderbirds showed up last night. Two of the pilots and several of the crew are from Texas because only Texas rocks hard enough to put on a show like this.

One of the pilots is from Wichita Falls. Earlier this year when the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels were rockin’ America Strong flyovers, he found it unacceptable the Navy’s Blue Angels got to come to North Texas, so this was [it’s possible he did not use this exact phrase] his chance to put on a show that rocks even harder!

Also, he’s doing the right thing by calling it the “Fort Worth area.”

In addition to flyovers for hospitals, police and firefighters this spring, the Thunderbirds took an emergency room doctor from JPS Hospital for a ride during rehearsal today because if any good can come of COVID, it’s that we’ve revisited our priorities and now understand doctors, nurses and other medical professionals are better than you.

[Note from the medical community: We do not think we’re better than you. Just better than Scaia.]

In a normal year, that pilot, Maj. Trevor Aldridge, says the Thunderbirds would fly about three dozen shows. Because of the pandemic, Fort Worth is just their fourth show of 2020, giving Aldridge more time to consider how the Blue Angels aren’t better than him.

You may have heard it was borderline windy during that interview.

This is the 30th year for the Bell Fort Worth Alliance Air Show, although its name surely wasn’t quite as complicated the entire time. Each year, folks line up around the gates before the show starts to take pictures as the performers do site surveys. Many reported they were glad for the show in Fort Worth because many others, including Dayton [the Birthplace of Aviation], had to be canceled. They didn’t, technically, mention Dayton specifically, but I don’t think it’s hard to put the pieces together.

In conclusion, we might be questioning our role in this universe as we approach a divisive election and struggle with the effects of the pandemic, but perhaps we can all agree on one thing: a flying eye hospital?! What a time to be alive.