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ELI5: How do pilots of the Blue Angels and other groups fly so close without crashing due to air pockets or turbulence? How do the planes stay so still?
gpt
A lot of practice. The Blue Angels do nothing but fly aerobatics. 
 
The lead pilot is flying somewhere, every other pilot is spending all of their time making tiny adjustments to keep their distances.  
They say if the lead pilot flew into a mountain the rest of them would crash into it as well.  
It kinda helps though that if all the planes are that close, all of them will be feeling roughly the same effects.    
  
It also helps that a lot of weather effects are being drowned out by the effects of a dozen wings and multiple jet engines fudging with the air. So there's only that piloting nightmare to deal with.