Typical “Look at me! I’m the first to comment!” armchair analyses (Rick F. excepted).
Two low-altitude punch-outs, one survived. Even “Maverick” couldn’t do better. In defense of the reporter, very few that get assigned such a story to write up (NOW!!!) have any background in military aviation (other than “Top Gun”) and are simply trying to regurgitate whatever “facts” that can immediately be gleaned from whomever might have been at the scene, in a somewhat grammatical manner. Cut him some slack. You probably couldn’t have gotten access to the Snowbird officials to get the factual information in the first place.
And Stephen R.: A lot of the COVID-19 Honor Flights around the country were made by aircraft 'way older than the Tudors. Yeah, that’s the answer: Ground them all.