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Title: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: Guy Markham on August 15, 2017, 02:06:11 PM

Past meets Present Pilots.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy3nsRvhgSE    y1

Title: Re: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: frank williams on August 15, 2017, 07:51:37 PM

Thanks Guy
Love the Bearcats!

Title: Re: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on August 15, 2017, 10:49:58 PM

Always loved the Blues, and I had the honor of working on the retrofits to the F4s that they flew.

Thanks. I love the sounds of the radial engines. nothing is better.

Does anyone know when this took place?

Title: Re: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: Tom Luciano on August 16, 2017, 04:23:28 AM

Tom,
  It looks like Al Teddeo passed in 2013 at 94. He was the last of the originals. He mentioned in the video, as he was climbing in the cockpit, he was 90 at the time. So, I guess it was 2009. Boy, you could see 60+ years go away as he sat in it, and then......Cool guy!

Best,
Tom

Title: Re: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: Gary Dowler on August 16, 2017, 05:44:11 AM

Great post!

Title: Re: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: Bob Heywood on August 16, 2017, 06:34:12 AM

Oh wow!

Title: Re: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: john e. holliday on August 16, 2017, 11:31:09 AM

Have seen this video sveral times and still stirs emotions as I love watching the Blues perform.  The look on the old timers face says it all as he sit in the cockpit and playing with the stick.  Thanks.

Title: Re: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: EddyR on August 16, 2017, 04:23:08 PM

I like Bearcats also. The orange one now has a internal muffler. The older blue one fell of my work table two years back and broke the wing and smashed the canopy. It is now repaired with new light weight flaps,new canopy and a internal muffler. Almost ready for paint. It will also be 10 ounces lighter.   

Title: Re: Blue Angels Bearcats
Post by: Dennis Leonhardi on August 16, 2017, 07:38:16 PM

Quote from: guy markham on August 15, 2017, 02:06:11 PM

Past meets Present Pilots.

Beautiful - Thanks for sharing!

I've always loved the Bearcat.  The Naval Reserve flying out of Minneapolis started flying them about the time I was 10 years old, and occasionally buzzed the town - hey, don't tell!

Saw the Blue Angels at an air show in Fargo a few years back, and Ed Shipley - seen and heard in parts of the video - really put a Bearcat through its paces at that show.

Great memories!

Dennis