Posted on 08/21/2005 5:09:39 PM PDT by Lokibob
The aerial acrobatic team cut short their performance Saturday when two of the jets made contact while they were flying in formation and a missile rail was dislodged. On Sunday, the team announced that it would not perform again until an investigation into the incident could be completed.
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I'm thinking wing-tip rail.
Good call.
Nice pictures. Good job...
Was a chick flying one of them?
Our local NBC affiliate reported contact between Nos. 3 and 4 resulted in loss of the missile rail and wingtip damage to both aircraft.
"Ah, ah, Mr. Tracy, I don't know what could have gone wrong!"
watching some refuelers and without my radio. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, Blue Angels 1 3 4 & 5 make a low level fly by and buzz the tower
and then directly over me! Then they circled back into the pattern to land and refuel. A little later the others did the same.
Really nice suprise. We listened as they were talking of their flight plans back to Florida then they left.
Except number 2 who developed some sort of problem and stayed the night then left in the morning. >P>If you've ever been up close to the Angels or Thunderbirds you would wonder that things didn't fall off every time they go up!
They are patched up and touched up all over the fueselage!lol A whole lot of bumpin going on and they don't always get the newest planes if you know what I mean. Just the newest and brightest paint.
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They are not "CHICKS", all are trained professionals in the greatest fighting force in the world.
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You're an ass.
I was in Nellis, in the parking lot at Las Vegas Speedway, 50,000 cars, when they made a 100 foot pass, just screaming.
Must have been 5,000 car alarms went off for close to a minute. Really funny.
But they get the latest and greatest engines...
We were standing outside a North Side coffee shop when they screamed over us.
I said "That's the sound of freedom gentlemen."
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I was right in line for almost every single low level flyover. And I mean right frigging over me and I was ten feet off the ground. And youre right, they are screaming!!
When Fat Albert took off the Jet assist lit off the grass in between runways. The airboss called us to go put it out,
then later the Tower bitched at us because we didnt also get permission from them even though the Airboss is in complete control.
Luckily my captain ain't afraid to go straight up the tower and tell the contoller how the cow ate the cabbage.
Yeah and overnight too.
Give it a rest will ya?
You betcha! And if the lib/dem/lefties in this country don't stop aiding and abetting the enemy that sound of freedom will no longer be there becuase NONE of us will be here including the lib/dem/lefties but...they are too damned ignorant to know it.
Hey how about the chick who flew into a dead engine on carrier landing one of the Navy's finest and deceased.
You say...
This isn't even a sentence. Looks like you're pretty much into "happy hour"....
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