Close Formation

They are some of the best pilots the Marine Corps has to offer, and they are trained and tested constantly in evasive maneuvers, close-formation flying, and zero-visibility flying. ❋ Vince Flynn (1997)

That flight had been an epic nightmare, requiring multiple midair refuelings and continuous, nerve-wracking close-formation flying, a tactic designed to make several planes appear as one on enemy radar. ❋ Douglass, Keith (1994)

'We have here,' he told the bewildered watchers, 'an example of close-formation fighting. ❋ Gemmell, David (1990)

The offense we're working up -- we'll call it close-formation for want of a better name -- is, we think, the best we can find. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

On the first play, using the close-formation, Gillam slashed a hole between the opposing center and right-guard and Mason went through for two yards. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

For the close-formation we have, I think, plays covering every phase. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

“But I notice you don’t have any close-formation practice.” ❋ Moon, Elizabeth (2007)

He’d been trained for almost fifty hours in close-formation escort duty, but he’d also been trained for well over two hundred hours in missile-evasion tactics. ❋ Vince Flynn (1997)

a series of direct-pass plays that, coming as they did on the heels of an afternoon of close-formation plays, confused the enemy until the ball had been planted near her thirty-five yards. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

‘We have here,’ he told the bewildered watchers, ‘an example of close-formation fighting. ❋ Gemmell, David (1990)

Luckily that close-formation has the merit of concealing the point of attack until it's under way, and it's just possible that we'll manage to fool them. " ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)