Thks Eagler, by explaining to the Honor guard that their wife and children were being held until after the formations had been analysed worked wonderfully!
Actually, we were about 5-10 seconds late on the 21 gun salute since the 32-plane visual limit simply showed faint dots that went past (Cobra's flight)..and after a couple of "was that them? "Did you see those dots?"...we went ahead and commenced the 21 gun salute.
Swoop,Apache,Fury,Mighty1, all performed this without any rehearsal, only orders via email of a picture and instructions. Jimbear Sundog and I had practice with Cobra the night before. As I said as we were rolling down the runway..."Sniper would have been appreciated this and would have been proud"
I'm anxious to see hblairs film, since we didn't get to see but dots for fly by's.