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1946 Blue Angels T-6 'Beetle Bomb' Image Unavailable, Please Login https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsvm2GQniIa/ .
here? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Do you see your dollar bill? It's right there. There's a few bars like this in FL. I'm surprised they still allow this. It has to violate 1 or 2 Fire Code's right? Image Unavailable, Please Login
HOLY COW. I was a member of Tiger Point and lived out there along Santa Rosa Sound. I was permanently banned from PNS in the early 90's. Our favorite bar (other than the Sandshaker) back then was Shanahan's. BJK, thanks for the pictures. Apologize for detouring the thread fellas.
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Thanks for the 1949 footage. I'd never seen film of a routine of theirs in piston-powered aircraft before.
My fathers said some pilots never got the hang of close formation flying in big recips. The torque makes it different from flying a jet with centerline thrust and no torque to speak of. Number 4 in the Bearcat footage was having a hard time staying in position.
The Blue Angels just recently (Nov.'20) transitioned to the Super Hornet after 10 years with the original. They should have waited to publish this book until they could include the first year experience with the new plane. I'm sure they knew the Blue Angels would be flying the Super Hornet in the coming year. Why buy a 'new' book that already needs an addendum? https://www.schifferbooks.com/the-blue-angels-the-us-navys-flight-demonstration-team-1946-to-the-present-6567.html .
Blue Angel Number 4 Retires To Pearl Harbor https://www.flickr.com/photos/pacificaviationmuseum/albums/72157718139128446?utm_campaign=F-18%20Arrival%20%28UmdeFX%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=PAMPH%20Master&_ke=eyJrbF9jb21wYW55X2lkIjogIkhDVlBKQSIsICJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJsZXN2YWxsYXJhbm9AeWFob28uY29tIn0%3D
Our next door neighbor's daughter went to the Naval Academy, after graduation she ended up marrying someone pretty darn cool......he is currently the head of the Blue Angels and I could not be more jealous....sorry happy! Gorgeous family and lots of their family pics have their little girl sitting on the wing of an F18.
Found this on another site. The heat of freedom is very much apparent! Image Unavailable, Please Login
I saw the Blue Angles fly F8's in 1950 at Willow Grove NAS. Eighteen years later I flew in quite a few air shows in which they also flew. I also flew in shows in which the T-Birds performed . They are regular guys and just as good but don't have the PR that the Navy boys have.
Go Navy! Beat Army. Who gives a flying duck about Air Force? Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat.com mobile app
I give a duck about the 35,000 aircrew that gave their lives in the 8th AirForce while they subdued Germany between 1942 and 1945.
My old head messed up the numbers. 26,000 dead, 47,000 casualties. More in the CBI and Pacific. Training losses exceed these figures by a huge amount. Like I said, the Air Force doesn't have a loud mouth but they did the job. I did quite few air shows in which the "Blues" also participated. They always caused some kind of problem and never attended the morning pilot briefings.
F8's would have been a good show but I liked when they flew F4's. At NAS Alameda I saw the show with F4s and their announcer called it the loudest air show on earth. Bay Area would never allow that now.
