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Posted on 06/01/2013 1:25:23 PM PDT by EveningStar
The sequester cuts have grounded the Thunderbirds and other U.S. military flight demonstration teams, but it hasn’t stopped Air Force Academy graduates from getting their own ceremonial flyover.
With the help of donations, nine World War II era planes, flown by pilots from the Texas Flying Legends Museum and the National Museum of World War II Aviation, performed at the U.S. Air Force Class of 2013 commencement ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday.
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Robin Olds would be in favor of this.
Who let that Corsair in there?
And an Avenger too. Oh well.
I wish they were pulling banners that read “Obama Sucks” or “Impeach Obama.”
Texas Flying Legends Museum pilots flew two P-51D Mustangs, a B-25J bomber, a P-40K Warhawk, a FG-1D Corsair, FM-2P Wildcat and a TBM-3E Avenger high above the Academy Wednesday morning. A P-47 Thunderbolt and a B-25 bomber were flown by pilots from the National Museum of World War II Aviation.
In a way, they are.
It cost $100,000 dollars for that flyover.
It costs more than that to warm up the engines on Air Force One so Obama can go play Golf with Reggie.
It costs ten times more than that for Wookie One to take Michelle to New York for a fund raiser.
If my WWII buff daughter has seen all those airplanes I would have had to carry her away on a stretcher.
Bring her to the Pima County Aerospace Museum in Tucson AZ and she will go bonkers. Plus we have the Air Force Aircraft Bone Yard at Davis-Montham Air Force Base in Tucson AZ..
Does this clown and his clan in the White Hut suck or what. Sequester . . . what a freaking joke. Oh yeah hurt the little people but the Martha’s Vineyard or Hawaii vactions will go on. What an asshat!
BG Olds is something else. I saw the episode of Dogfights titled “Air Ambush,” and it told his stories of heroism in the P-38 over Germany and heroism and innovation in the F4 over Vietnam. Truly an incredible hero!
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