By YOSHITAKA ITO/ Staff Writer
January 18, 2020 at 18:40 JST
HIGASHI-MATSUYAMA, Miyagi Prefecture--High overhead here, the Air Self-Defense Force’s Blue Impulse precision flying team has begun practicing drawing Olympic rings using smoke in the sky above Matsushima base.
On the morning of Jan. 17, several blue-and-white planes from the base managed to draw three white rings.
According to sources, plans call for drawing all five Olympic rings on March 20 when a ceremony will be held at the base to ignite the Olympic flame before the start of the torch relay in Fukushima Prefecture on March 26.
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Planes belonging to the Blue Impulse precision flying team draw three rings in the sky above Matsushima base on Jan. 17. (Shigetaka Kodama)
