Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Navy Will Perform Unprecedented 21-Fighter Flyover for Bush Funeral
USNI ^ | December 4, 2018 | Megan Eckstein

Posted on 12/04/2018 4:59:39 PM PST by C19fan

The Navy will honor former naval aviator and 41st president George H.W. Bush on Thursday with a largest-ever 21-aircraft missing man formation as part of his funeral services in Texas. Thirty F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets departed Naval Air Station Oceana, Va. today ahead of the Dec. 6 internment ceremony at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas. A naval aviation official told USNI News that a missing man formation of this size is unprecedented and reflects Bush’s legacy as a naval aviator and ongoing relationship with the Navy’s carrier strike group community.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: aviation; bush; bush41; georgehwbush; navy
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-92 next last
I wonder if there are any working Grumman Avengers that can do a fly over.
1 posted on 12/04/2018 4:59:39 PM PST by C19fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Awesome ... can’t wait for this to be posted on youtube!


2 posted on 12/04/2018 5:02:46 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

That would be a sight.

I remember when I lived in Virginia Beach, every time a carrier would come into Norfolk, they would fly the planes to Oceana first.


3 posted on 12/04/2018 5:04:29 PM PST by yarddog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yarddog

I have been to the airshows at Oceana NAS.


4 posted on 12/04/2018 5:05:05 PM PST by C19fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

They mocked GW when he landed on a carrier.


5 posted on 12/04/2018 5:05:32 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yarddog

There is a small lake at Oceana NAS where we used to hang out and watch aviators practice their touch and go landings.


6 posted on 12/04/2018 5:08:01 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: mylife

.
One does not mock another that does something one cannot do themselves.


7 posted on 12/04/2018 5:09:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Will the MSM interrupt their love-fest to carp about the “expense”?


8 posted on 12/04/2018 5:12:21 PM PST by colorado tanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Did Obama ever land on a flight deck? Did Clinton ever drive a sub? a tank?

Sure Jimmy Carter did the later, but he ran from a rabbit too.


9 posted on 12/04/2018 5:12:45 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

While I was in Virginia Beach, the Nimitz had an accident when several 500 lbs bombs went off on the deck. I took several photos of it rounding the Capes.

The planes were still on deck. Probably could not fly them off. Remarkably there was some kind of military tension going on at the time and the Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth had it back to sea in only two days.

The paper said no other shipyard in the world could have done that.


10 posted on 12/04/2018 5:13:41 PM PST by yarddog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

It’s pretty amazing that the nation elected Bill Clinton over Bush. I blame Perot. In many ways, Perot was a good guy. But he really dropped the ball in 1992.


11 posted on 12/04/2018 5:14:06 PM PST by Zhang Fei (They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: editor-surveyor

Trump is kicking ass.


12 posted on 12/04/2018 5:14:48 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: C19fan
I wonder if there are any working Grumman Avengers that can do a fly over.

Over two dozen in the US alone; it would be cool to have one do that.

13 posted on 12/04/2018 5:17:30 PM PST by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mylife

.
Absolutely and totally!


14 posted on 12/04/2018 5:18:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Zhang Fei

Perot might have got our heads out of our asses fiscally, but he threw the election.

Clinton was pretty ineffectual.

Obama Effed us up.


15 posted on 12/04/2018 5:19:49 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Zhang Fei

I blame Perot. In many ways, Perot was a good guy. But he really dropped the ball in 1992.
= = = = = = = = = = = = =

The ‘No New Taxes’ (which the Ds bamboozled him into)

and Perot’s

Giant Sucking Sound (NAFTA)

Sort of did GHWB in.

Would be interesting to see what his comments inre Clinton(twice) & W (twice) & BO happening because of his ‘hijinks’


16 posted on 12/04/2018 5:19:56 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

.
There’s one on the elevator deck of the USS Hornet, in Alameda rumored to be one that Bush actually flew.


17 posted on 12/04/2018 5:21:25 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mylife

.
Obama was a masterful wrecking ball.


18 posted on 12/04/2018 5:23:15 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

Comment #19 Removed by Moderator

To: C19fan
I wonder if there are any working Grumman Avengers that can do a fly over.

Looks like at least one flying Avenger torpedo bomber is part of FlyingLegends.


20 posted on 12/04/2018 5:25:03 PM PST by Flick Lives
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-92 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson