What's Your Favorite Blue Angel's Aircraft?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What's Your Favorite Blue Angel's Aircraft?

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:45:18 PM EDT

While I am a huge fan of the F/A-18 Hornet, I get sentimental everytime I see the Blue Angel's A4 Skyhawks. Had the pleasure of seeing them several times as a kid, and this little workhorse is such a nimble little bird.

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:47:39 PM EDT

[#1]

Fat Albert.

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:48:21 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Fat Albert.

You better smile when you say that... and I'm not fat, I'm pleasantly plump... and my name is Michael, not Albert you twit!

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:49:16 PM EDT

[#3]

I liked them with the F-4!!!

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:50:44 PM EDT

[#4]

Grumman F11F Tiger. Pretty much a dog of a jet, but one of the most elgantly-proportioned jets of the era. 1957-1968 - the longest-serving Blue Angels plane until the Scoot, which did 12 years. The Bug will have 20 years next year!

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:50:47 PM EDT

[#5]

Nice painting, as I recall it hangs in the Pensacola Naval Air Museum.

And yes I am a fan of the A-4 also, from when I was kid. Same with the Thunderbirds when they flew T-38's.

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:52:58 PM EDT

[#6]

I think the fact that the Top Gun pilots would eat Tomcat and Horbet drivers alive with the A4 makes me appreciate it even more. An F5 you can understand, its a fighter... but the wittle A4 is a mud mover, but boy can she turn.

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:55:19 PM EDT

[#7]

A-4 again, just something about the lines of that bird.

Posted: 9/15/2005 6:57:01 PM EDT

[#8]

A4 for being the most nimble....

The F4 for being the biggest badass.

Posted: 9/15/2005 7:07:51 PM EDT

[#9]

I kind of have a crush on A-4's at the moment. Simple, basic, capable little planes. I've been daydreaming about the Germans having them in WWII.

Posted: 9/15/2005 7:59:52 PM EDT

[#10]

I liked the A4

but, I think my favorite has to be the F4 Phantom

They were easy to see and the power of the engines were really loud and left a helluva impression.

Posted: 9/15/2005 8:04:28 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

but, I think my favorite has to be the F4 Phantom

They were easy to see and the power of the engines were really loud and left a helluva impression.

I'm surprised noone else has said the mighty Phantom!

Posted: 9/15/2005 8:07:27 PM EDT

[#12]

I never much cared for the Phantom... basically proof positive that with a big enough engine a brick will fly.

Posted: 9/15/2005 8:08:39 PM EDT

[#13]

The A-4.
Leading edge slats bolted in the up position, J52-P-408 engine, avionics package removed, armor plating removed, upper rear hump removed.

Heinimans' hot rod.
He also designed the A-3.

Posted: 9/15/2005 8:19:30 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Fat Albert.

www.blueangels.navy.mil/geninfo/highrez/ba_05-a.bmp

+1

Posted: 9/15/2005 8:39:51 PM EDT

[#15]

A-4, little, nimble,
fast, & beautiful.
Just like the wife!

myit

Posted: 9/15/2005 8:50:21 PM EDT

[#16]

PHANTOM

Posted: 9/15/2005 9:37:14 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Heinimans' hot rod.
He also designed the A-3.

And the A-1 Skyraider as well.

Posted: 9/15/2005 9:45:56 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
PHANTOM

+1.

Damn, that thing was beautiful!

Posted: 9/15/2005 9:49:47 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Quoted:
PHANTOM

+1.

Damn, that thing was beautiful!

+1, And the only airframe to be flown by the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds.

Posted: 9/15/2005 10:17:37 PM EDT

[#20]

I think Heinemann also had a substantial, if not primary, role in the A-20 Havoc, A-26 Invader and SBD Dauntless designs as well.

Kind of the John Moses Browning of aircraft. Oh yeah. He also joined GD later on and oversaw the F-16 project.

If it wasn't documented, you'd think it was overblown hype.

Compare the record of Douglas aviation to Curtis or Brewster and it is night and day; makes you wonder how much of a difference the right person in the right situation really does make.

Posted: 9/15/2005 10:33:18 PM EDT

[#21]

F/A hornet

Posted: 9/15/2005 10:35:02 PM EDT

[#22]

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PHANTOM

+1.

Damn, that thing was beautiful!

+1, And the only airframe to be flown by the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds.

They were farking LOUD!!!!!

Posted: 9/15/2005 10:45:21 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
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PHANTOM

+1.

Damn, that thing was beautiful!

+1, And the only airframe to be flown by the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds.

They were farking LOUD!!!!!

That my boy is the sound of FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 9/15/2005 10:50:00 PM EDT

[#24]

The F-4 Phantom

Posted: 9/15/2005 10:51:00 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
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PHANTOM

+1.

Damn, that thing was beautiful!

+1, And the only airframe to be flown by the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds.

I saw the Thunderbirds flying today.....

Posted: 9/15/2005 11:09:27 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
PHANTOM

+1000

It was by far the Loudest Blue Angel performance I ever attended.

Posted: 9/15/2005 11:29:13 PM EDT

[#27]

The one and only time I saw the Blue Angels was in 1983 at NAS Memphis when I was fresh out of Parris Island. They were flying Scooters in those days. My Squadron in the fleet was an A4 squadron as well. I just love'em.

Posted: 9/16/2005 3:52:54 AM EDT

[#28]

Give me the A4. They have four of them hanging from the roof in the Air Museum in Pensacola. Neat little bird.

Didn't the "Birds go to the T38 over the F4's because of fuel cost back in the late 70's?

Posted: 9/16/2005 4:55:48 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Give me the A4. They have four of them hanging from the roof in the Air Museum in Pensacola. Neat little bird.

Didn't the "Birds go to the T38 over the F4's because of fuel cost back in the late 70's?

Yes, along with maintenance hours. Same reason the Blues ditched them after only four years.

Posted: 9/16/2005 5:34:52 AM EDT

[#30]

Now a real airplane. I give you, the Hellcat!

Or alternatly.. the Bearcat

Posted: 9/16/2005 5:38:03 AM EDT

[#31]

My favorite ones are the BLUE ones!

BigDozer66

Posted: 9/16/2005 5:48:38 AM EDT

[#32]

Well this will show how old I am. The first Blue Angles air show I ever saw was at Los Alamitos NAS in 1956. My dad took me and my little brother and we parked our 1948 Chevy under the trees at the end of the runway and watched the show. They were flying Grumman F9F Panthers. The Panthers were beautiful planes, the first jets to be carrier based, and had proved their worth in Korea. I've seen many a Blues Angles show but I will always remember that one. Ah great memories!

Posted: 9/16/2005 5:53:57 AM EDT

[#33]

A-4 Scooter...no contest.

Posted: 9/16/2005 5:59:57 AM EDT

[#34]

F11F Tiger made by Grumman in the 1950's.

Posted: 9/16/2005 7:29:34 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
I liked them with the F-4!!!

Uh huh!!!

Posted: 9/16/2005 7:47:04 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
While I am a huge fan of the F/A-18 Hornet, I get sentimental everytime I see the Blue Angel's A4 Skyhawks. Had the pleasure of seeing them several times as a kid, and this little workhorse is such a nimble little bird.

www.blueangels.org/Aircraft/Skyhawks/A4_03.jpg

+eleventy BILLION

I was raised in Pensacola so I saw them more times than I can count. I have also seen them the last three years in Annapolis during commissioning week. I have long loved the Hornets, but the A-4s were the Blues of my childhood (most of it anyway)

shooter

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