PHOTOGRAPHS BY
JINGYI (VICTOR) LIMIDDLETOWN / PENNSYLVANIA
MAY 2026

Speed became a line

AIR
DRAWN

NAVY / GOLD / WHITE NOISE04

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24 PHOTOGRAPHS · ISSUE 04

The sky kept
the choreography.

Blue and gold begin on the flight line, then shrink into silhouettes, intervals, and white marks across weather. The sequence keeps returning to the people and machines below, so speed is never detached from scale: every temporary drawing has a horizon.

MIDDLETOWN / PENNSYLVANIA · NAVY / GOLD / WHITE NOISE

A Blue Angels jet with its canopy open rests on the apron while crew members stand beneath a layered sky. — 01GROUND, WHOLENo. 5 waits with its canopy open as two crew members stand beneath the nose, small against the aircraft's mass.

Jingyi stands beside a complete red, white, and blue F-16 display aircraft under a pale overcast sky. — 02PERSON / MACHINEA thumbs-up beside the display F-16 turns the aircraft into a measure of human height; the barriers echo its red-and-white stripe below.

03STEEL PROFILEThe F-16 stretches low across grass and tarmac, its canopy, landing gear, and dark panel lines carrying the long profile.

A red-and-white F-16 banks alone through a pale field of layered clouds. — 04RED INTERRUPTOne red wing cuts through silver cloud as the F-16 banks alone above the airfield.

Spectators and parked Blue Angels aircraft form a low horizon while a small red jet approaches through an immense overcast sky. — 05LOOK UPA tiny red jet approaches above a dense horizon of heads, raised phones, and parked aircraft.

Two Blue Angels jets taxi beneath a broad ceiling of broken clouds. — 06TWO ON THE LINETwo navy-and-gold jets taxi in parallel beneath a ceiling of broken cloud.

Four Blue Angels jets pass above parked fighters, crew members, and a red F-16 tail on the airfield. — 07TWO ALTITUDESFour jets pass overhead while parked fighters, crew members, and a red tail hold the airfield below.

Four Blue Angels jets climb diagonally above a thick smoke column in a cloud-filled sky. — 08FOUR UPFour dark undersides climb above a single smoke column, gold lettering flashing along the diagonal.

Five Blue Angels jets climb in a vertical stack along the right side of a textured sky. — 09RIGHT MARGINFive jets and five smoke trails rise along the right edge of an immense blue-and-white sky.

Three jets split from a rising column of white smoke against a blue-and-white sky. — 10FIRST BRANCHThree aircraft split from one white column, sending smoke into three diverging branches.

Two jets peel apart above a tree line, parked fighter tail, spectators, and a faint distant formation. — 11SPLIT OVER GROUNDTwo jets peel apart above the tree line while a red tail, spectators, and a distant formation remain close to the ground.

Two jets diverge above an X-shaped intersection of smoke trails in a layered sky. — 12CROSSING POINTTwo jets separate above the smoky X where their paths crossed.

A Blue Angels jet pulls a long horizontal smoke line toward the right edge of a pale patterned sky. — 13LONG SENTENCEA lone jet draws one long horizontal line through a pale, patterned sky.

A small jet passes above the ridge while spectators occupy the foreground beside the green runway. — 14A BODY BELOWA small jet crosses above the ridge as three spectators look up from the runway edge.

Four Blue Angels jets rise from the lower left beneath looping smoke in a blue-and-white sky. — 15OLD SMOKE / NEW LINEFour jets climb through fresh parallel trails beneath the fading loop of an earlier maneuver.

Three Blue Angels jets form an open triangle in the upper-left sky. — 16TRIANGLE, OPENThree aircraft hold an open triangle in one corner of an otherwise expansive sky.

Two Blue Angels jets cross in opposing orientations against mottled cloud. — 17OPPOSEDTwo Blue Angels cross in opposite orientations, separated by only a narrow interval of cloud.

Four Blue Angels jets hold a compact tilted diamond in the center of a gray-blue sky. — 18FOUR, HELDFour jets lock into a tilted diamond beneath a gray-blue ceiling.

Six jets climb from the lower right beneath a towering wall of layered cloud. — 19SIX INTO CLOUDSix dark aircraft and six white trails rise toward a towering wall of cloud.

A tall arc of smoke descends toward tiny aircraft above parked F-16s, vehicles, and ground crews. — 20RETURN ARCA tall arc of smoke descends toward six tiny jets as parked fighters and crew members wait below.

Six jets fan outward through separate smoke trails beneath richly patterned cloud. — 21SIX DIRECTIONSSix aircraft open a fan, their smoke paths widening from a shared origin beneath patterned cloud.

Six Blue Angels jets hold three descending tiers high against mottled cloud. — 22SIX, HELDSix jets hold three descending tiers high above a mottled cloud field.

Aircraft scatter through crossing smoke above a runway, parked fighters, a photographer, and a low tree line. — 23THE FIELD OPENSAircraft scatter at several heights through crossing smoke above parked fighters, runway, and one photographer.

One inverted Blue Angels jet arcs above a five-aircraft formation crossing beneath it. — 24ONE ABOVE FIVEOne inverted jet arcs above five crossing beneath it, dividing the final pass into two levels.