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There was screaming and shrieking at the 31st Northwestern Swiss Yodelling Festival, but the loudest of it all didn’t come from yodellers — instead, a flock of F-5E Tiger II’s from the Swiss Air Force’s Patrouille Suisse aerobatics team made an accidental visit to the festival.

On Twitter, the Patrouille Suisse, similar to the Canadian Snowbirds, announced it would fly over Langenbruck, the hometown of Swiss flying legend Oskar Bider, the first person to cross the Alps in both directions. He used a Blériot XI to make history in 1913, one day after his 22nd birthday.

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The modern-day squad was slated to fly over a ceremony honouring the 100th anniversary of Bider’s death, shortly after a memorial.