blue angels…thats what…nothing like a f-18 buzzing 1,000 feet over my front porch…its fleet week here in san francisco…full air show over the bay this weekend…my house is on the flight line they take right through the city…pretty awesome if you ask me…need to go over to alameda and check out the USS HORNET before its gone as well…these were all shot right off my porch…
Don’t worry. They’re just a group of 19 and 20 year olds having fun with zillions of horsepower.
If they’re flying and they are unidentified they are…
UFO’s!
Sorry…
Rich
Might wanna up that age a bit… Average age of a US Military fighter pilot (DoD-wide) is 35, believe it or don’t…[;)]
That is pretty cool. Sometimes a group of CH-53Es fly over my house nape of the earth style but never anything like some F-18s.
Now how awesome is that?!? It’s not everyone who can brag that they got front row seats to the show, and it didn’t cost em a dime! If I were that fortunate, I would already be on the roof with a folding chair and a cooler![#toast]
Way back in 96, I sat in the O’club tent at CAF HQ, watching the Blues peform with some bald-headed ex-squid named Butch Voris…[:D]
Ain’t braggin’, just happens ta be so…[;)]
Yes, Mr. Hammer… but that errodes my dramatic impact.
We don’t get that lucky around here. Just the CT ANG flying thier A-10’s the occasional C-130 and C-5
Atleast you get that. I haven’t seen a military aircraft around here in about six months, and then it was a single cobra.
here is the link to the whole deal…i am going to do the ship tours monday or tuesday…aircraft carrier time!
blue angels 3 days in a row
if it actually works…
Looks like you’ve got the Blues! Great show, would love to see them again soon. Neither the Angels or the Thunderbirds came within driving distance this year, hopefully next year. [tup]
believe me…i know how fortunate we are…when it first started back in 97 i think it really freaked people out…i have been looking forward to october every year since…
Just in case someone didn’t know, Butch Voris was the Blues first (and second) skipper, back in 46 starting with Hellcats… Sadly, he went West in August of '05… But I was glad to have met the man, for sure… Even if he was a Squid…
Hey now watch that “squid” stuff LOL…
I’m also fortunate, as you should see the sights from my office, what with Nellis AFB just over yonder. ALL kinds of stuff just making their approaches over my parking lot. Funny thing though, late night, dead of winter, and there is some Weird Shtuff up there man.
Saw what I think was that new unmanned Navy strike fighter flying around near the racetrack. We weren’t sure what but knew it was an aircraft of some sort. Later saw the TV show on the thing and concluded that’s what it was.
We joke, but with Area 51 just 90 miles from here, and how sparsely populated the remainder of this state is, it’s a perfect place to test new/exotic/secret/strange aircraft. [alien]
Of course in this town visitors from another planet could walk around unnoticed.
Unless they started singing Viva Las Vegas…
Sweet location sf.
Hornet, gone?
I wish there were a way for you to post the sounds of those birds, too. There is nothing like the sights AND sounds of warbirds roaring overhead. The raw power is amazing…
Maybe not everyone, but pretty much anybody who’s ever been to an airshow where the Angels were performing [;)] [(-D] [(-D].
-Fred
I was stationed on the Lexington back in 1975-1976, she was the Blue Angels’ carrier qual ship. During their training periods, (they were flying A-4s) the Angels would practice their routines with Lex as their focal point. We got front row seats for weeks at a time, it actually grew to be routine and we would lose interest. As an Air Force brat, I always preferred the Thunderbirds.
I don’t know if they still allow it, but the spot that I enjoyed the best to view the Blue Angels show over San Francisco Bay is the Maritime Museum at the Hyde Street Pier. My parents made their only trip out to visit us in San Francisco over 15 years ago and it so happened to be Fleet Week as well. We were at the Hyde Street Pier when the show began. The museum closed their gates during the show so it wasn’t elbow to elbow. There is an old ferry there with nice bench seats on the upper deck. That is where we viewed the show, it was great.
During the week we will see them practicing over the Bay.
Mike T.