Thanks Gavin....
For the tight, high right echelon formation, you first have to pick the aircraft you want to display. In this case i chose 5 skins in five different a/c folders. Using MDLC, you reduce the collision bubbles of all to '5' or '6' or they won't play nice with each other

. Then you create a test mission and pick your preselected lead ship as the player a/c and put five in the formation. You only need 2 waypoints - Turn (1st wypnt ) and Land Anywhere (2nd wypnt). Set altitude and speed the same for both waypoints. Save the mission, test flight or just exit MB.
Open the mis file in notepad and edit the units, formation.0 and unit_types as follows:
[mission]
version=2.0
title=%title_string%
summary=
objective=
intelligence=
mission_type=8
allegiance=3
total_goals=1
player_aircraft=3894 <<--player....leave unchanged
player_aircraft_name=%player_aircraft_name_string%
date=1/6/1951
time=12:00
[unit.0]
id=9078
type_id=3894 <<--player....leave unchanged
name=%name_string.0%
is_player_aircraft=1
allegiance=3
skill=3
payload=0
[unit.1]
id=9079
type_id=
3895
name=%name_string.1%
allegiance=3
skill=3
payload=0
[unit.2]
id=9080
type_id=
3896
name=%name_string.2%
allegiance=3
skill=3
payload=0
[unit.3]
id=9081
type_id=
3897
name=%name_string.3%
allegiance=3
skill=3
payload=0
[unit.4]
id=9082
type_id=
3898
name=%name_string.4%
allegiance=3
skill=3
payload=0
[formation.0]
id=6000
type=air
waypoint_path_id=5000
directive=8
players_formation=1
formation_type=3
points=2
unit_id_position.0=9078,0,0.0,0.0,0.0 <<--player....leave unchanged
unit_id_position.1=9079,0,
40.0,-10.0,05.0 [40 right, 10 behind, 5 higher]
unit_id_position.2=9080,0,
80.0,-20.0,10.0 [80 right, 20 behind, 10 higher]
unit_id_position.3=9081,0,
120.0,-30.0,15.0 [120 right, 30 behind, 15 higher]
unit_id_position.4=9082,0,
160.0,-40.0,20.0 [160 right, 40 behind, 20 higher]
[waypoint_path.0]
id=5000
waypoint.0=1,0,N35* 26.18',E127* 51.96',+8000,,,,370,,0,0,1
waypoint.1=4096,0,N40* 43.74',E127* 51.90',+8500,,,,370,,0,0,1
[unit_type.0]
type_id=3894 <<---player....leave unchanged
unit_family=1
name=SF8_F-86EF_mig-mad
[unit_type.1]
type_id=
3895
unit_family=1
name=SF8_F-86EF_King
[unit_type.2]
type_id=
3896
unit_family=1
name=SF8_F-86EF_risnerFU-824
[unit_type.3]
type_id=
3897
unit_family=1
name=SF8_F-86EF_4kings
[unit_type.4]
type_id=
3898
unit_family=1
name=SF8_F-86EF_hutch
[strings]
"title_string"=**Section 8 v2**
"player_aircraft_name_string"=F-86F-30 "MiG Mad Marine" Maj. John Glenn, Jr.(USMC) 25th FIS/ 51st FIW <<---player....leave unchanged
"name_string.0"=Bogey
"name_string.1"=Bogey-1
"name_string.2"=Bogey-2
"name_string.3"=Bogey-3
"name_string.4"=Bogey-4