The Snowbirds' Last Show With the Tutor Jets

The Royal Canadian Air Force's Snowbirds will perform their final air show with the Tutor jets in Moose Jaw, Sask., on Friday, after which those aircraft are retired for good. That gives the Tutor an unambiguous last act: one final public demonstration, and then retirement.

There is a difference between a fleet being phased out quietly and a fleet being marched off in front of a crowd, and the Snowbirds have chosen the second. The Tutor goes out doing what it was best known for — flying in formation in the team's colors, one last time.