Top guns! Elite F-16 pilots perform death-defying Calypso Pass stunt creating an optical illusion that both jets are almost touching while one flies upside down

The is the amazing moment two F-16 jets of the USAF Thunderbirds display team perform the 'Calypso Pass' pass routine where both jets almost appear to touch while flying a short distance apart: The bottom jet, 5, has its number painted upside down because it is inverted 

Here four members of the team, all flying F-16 jets perform the 'bomb blast' formation with one aircraft climbing to almost three miles 

Here four of the jets are involved in a tight diamond formation while flying inverted above the crowds at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia 

As well as the F-16s, the crowds were entertained by this pair of Second World War-era P-51 Mustangs, pictured at Langley, Virginia 

These vintage Gieco Skytypers were used during the Second World War to train pilots and performed at the air show in Virginia 

These experimental aircraft made by Redline LLC were performing some close formation flying as part of the annual air show 

Here a B-25, known as Panchito performed a low-fly past. The bomber was built towards the end of the Second World War 

Here a Soviet-era MiG-17 performed a fly past over the air strip making a change from many of the US-manufactured aircraft at the event

Also at the event in Langley, Virginia was this parachute display team who dropped into the Air Power Over Hampton Roads air show

Here an MSX-RH aerobatic aircraft pushes its nose vertical and billows out smoke during its routine at the air show in Virginia