Posted: 4/28/2011 1:39:41 PM EDT
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Awesome Pic....... Truly awesome
Linky to article I just found a new desktop piccy 
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Quoted: Very cool picture but I'm relatively certain the text explaining the distortion around the jet is BS. No it's not heat it's just moisture in the air creating the "envelope" as the jet passes through it. If it were a little more humid you would see one behind the canopy and another aft. Not fast enough to get a boom out of a Hornet, they try but she's hard to pop at sea level with a Legacy Hornet. ETA: Here ya go... |
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I've got a poster with all of the 2001 crew's signatures over their aircraft. Gonna give it to my kids one day. They were all super guys. I got to meet them all and get their autographs after the Naval Academy graduation show back in the 90's. Very cool experience for me as a kid.
ETA: I took some photo's with my dad's FA 250. 
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Very cool picture but I'm relatively certain the text explaining the distortion around the jet is BS. No it's not heat it's just moisture in the air creating the "envelope" as the jet passes through it. If it were a little more humid you would see one behind the canopy and another aft. Not fast enough to get a boom out of a Hornet, they try but she's hard to pop at sea level with a Legacy Hornet. ETA: Here ya go... http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR3NMSPDpbHpMHPM7vkILDRUMqBj61UAbA3aZY0mxUzzCynopTw2Q A member here posted a big version of that pic a while back and it's still my desktop background.
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Quoted: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/GySgtD/blueangelsoerhouse.jpg I got to fly in Fat Albert for one of the air shows. A miserable experience. The ziplock bag contains my breakfast... http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c256/arfcompics/100_4733-1.jpg http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c256/arfcompics/100_4719.jpg Light meal that morning huh Gunny? lmao |
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I got a "private" Blue Angels air show when I was TAD to the fuel pits at NAS Oceana. The Blues came in, hot fueled, and did a practice practice show the day before the air show. A couple of us drove a fuel truck as close as we could to the center of the field. One of the routines is the 6 jets split up and converge from 6 different directions over one point. We were almost exactly under that point, it was indescribable! |
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Video of that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rAUu8djZ4&feature=related 
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Cool pic!
I snapped this one last summer at the Dayton Airshow at Wright - Patterson. Gonna have to get on the driver of #4...looks like he's just a hair out of position 
Link to rest of the album (that photo was by far my best). http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd136/jblomenberg16/Dayton%20Air%20Show/ |
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Sneak Passes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rAUu8djZ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZc0sSpzpw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONx0gSZ9NyM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plPSkaN9f1o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NllJpjP85yk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsl17lWXI9U That job does not suck. My dad used to have an apartment by Coit tower in SF, during Fleet Week the Angels were using it as a landmark. I remember looking into the cockpits as they flew past the balcony. Good times. |
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They've actually knocked pictures off the walls in my living room doing the high-speed pass thing. This happens about twice a week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TdLfNCVwQo Zero gravity boobies on Fat Albert (boy... that don't sound right.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn4kUzhR5Rg Funny story–– After the ride, I went back to work and mentioned the above incident. With proper embellishment, of course. Turns out it was the dude's ex-wife 
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Quoted: They've actually knocked pictures off the walls in my living room doing the high-speed pass thing. This happens about twice a week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TdLfNCVwQo Zero gravity boobies on Fat Albert (boy... that don't sound right.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn4kUzhR5Rg Funny story–– After the ride, I went back to work and mentioned the above incident. With proper embellishment, of course. Turns out it was the dude's ex-wife The little Navy chick? Looks doable from what I've seen |