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Blue Angels

HayesGreener said:
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.

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Sometimes I wish people would mind their own business! Nothing wrong with what they did.
 
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.....
 
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
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Lo-Profile said:
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
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dumbsheets around here, buy a house near the airport..knowing there IS an airport...

then attend community meetings to get the noises reduced near the airport....

they'd prolly protest the sea air if they lived near the beaches here.
 
When I heard of all the hoopla over the low pass, my first thought was WHERE THE F was the low pass over Begazi....

These vaginas complaining are like the ones who moved next to a GUN Range (with a billboard size sign telling prospective buyers that the GUN RANGE was right there) then complained and wanted no shooting on weekends or after 6 PM
 
Lo-Profile said:
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
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we used to visit my grand dads cabin out on lake bistineau which is not far from Barksdale AFB in shreveport LA.
summers we would be out on the lake at the float barge they would place out in ski area.
then B52s would roar across the lake as they took off
made the water vibrate.
 
We never miss an airshow here at Ellington to see the Blue Angels or Thunderbird up close and personal. After about 20 years now it still amazes me at their skill. But, each year all the Karens light up SM on what the hell is up with all the jets flying over. Sound of raw power Baby.
 
Retired Bum said:
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.....
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The F-35 is much more of a "Barn Door" than the F-4 ever was.
 
Actually it was over 30 yrs ago.

The F-35 was conceived in 1993 through the Pentagon's Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) program. This initiative officially became the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program in 1994, which aimed to develop three highly common variants to replace aging fighter and attack fleets across multiple military branches.

The F-35 has really bad aerodynamics because of the USMC versions' need for a lift fan behind the cockpit, and size restrictions due to the desire to fit on the LHA/LHDs while accommodating internal ordnance & fuel. Thus the other "A" and "C" models are stuck with the compromises.

Still a barn door, and a chunky one at that.
 
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