Blue Angels

[NMEDGE]

I Live near Pensacola. The Blue Angels are a really big deal here and Blue Angel fans are like a cult. We love our Blues. Blue Angel shows here are like a national holiday. So when a jet makes a low pass on the beach it gets screams of excitement and cheers. It blows over some sun shades and adds to the thrill. So the mainstream media makes a big deal of it claiming it's not safe and scared everybody on the beach. Heck, that's what the fans came for! For the record the low pass was within limits. Dang it, these are the best fighter pilots in the world. (After the Thunderbirds, of course)

So this morning I read where some asshat from Chicago writes that government money is being used to scare hell out of little kids at the beach. The people there loved the low passes The only criticism came from people who were not there and know nothing.

Thus another example of an arsonist media trying to start a fire. It reminds me of them accusing Border Patrol of whipping people at the border with the reins of their horses. Much of the media are ignorant, or just plain lying scum. Just the same, I trust them as far as I can throw one of their satellite trucks.

Rant off

Sometimes I wish people would mind their own business! Nothing wrong with what they did.

 

[southtex]

The Angels are a big deal in my community as well. Great recruiting tool and never gets old for the spectator. F the windy wind bag

 

[NMEDGE]

F16's fly over the house all day here. Don't bother me one bit.

 

[3L120]

Thought the uproar was about those Apaches that flew low over another beach. Bet a lot of snowflakes wet their panties!

 

[Retired Bum]

Way back when we first moved to Tucson, DMAFB had the F4 Phantom. That thing was a beast! Twin engines and a lot less noise abatement. When the planes lifted off the pilot would take it to stage 3 after burners and rattle windows all around. At dusk on into the night, it was gorgeous!

 

[Retired Bum]

I was never one for areonautics and really never had interest to know what kept planes in the air. That said, about 30 years ago, I was in a hunt with a retired F4 pilot from the Vietnam era, and he explained to us about the details of flight of the F4.

He said that airplane is living proof that you can fly a barn door if you strapped enough horsepower to it's butt.....

 

[Lo-Profile]

Grew up less than a mile from the end of a runway of a SAC base .... Between the B52, KC 135, FB111 and daily engine testing .... I'm not sure how the house held together.
But I could sleep thru almost anything.
Our house was right at the yellow dot