News:



  • July 05, 2025, 11:54:51 AM

Login with username, password and session length

« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend  (Read 1282 times)

Offline Bob Hudak

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Captain
  • *
  • Posts: 501
Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« on: March 06, 2013, 08:16:07 PM »
Made me laugh.
Logged
350838

Offline wwwarbird

  • 2016 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 8085
  • Welcome to the Stunt Hanger.
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2013, 08:18:47 PM »

 Ouch. I wish that was funny.
Logged
Narrowly averting disaster since 1964! 

Wayne Willey
Albert Lea, MN U.S.A. IC C/L Aircraft Modeler, Ex AMA member

Offline Steve Helmick

  • 24 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 10267
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2013, 11:01:24 PM »
I know there aren't anymore 'flyovers' at NASCAR and other outdoor sporting events, but does this mean that the "Blue Angles" (sic) and USAF's "Thudnerbergs" (sic) are no longer? Anybody heard for sure?  :'( Steve
Logged
"The United States has become a place where professional athletes and entertainers are mistaken for people of importance." - Robert Heinlein

In 1944 18-20 year old's stormed beaches, and parachuted behind enemy lines to almost certain death.  In 2015 18-20 year old's need safe zones so people don't hurt their feelings.

Offline Paul Wood

  • 21 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Commander
  • *
  • Posts: 297
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2013, 07:20:23 AM »
I believe the Thunderbird shows are cancelled after April.  Haven't heard about the "Blues"

Paul
Logged

Offline Gene O'Keefe

  • 2014 Supporters
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Captain
  • *
  • Posts: 556
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2013, 07:49:02 AM »
Yes, all "Blues" and "T-Birds" shows are cancelled.
Logged
Gene O'Keefe
AMA 28386

Offline Matt Colan

  • N-756355
  • AMA Member
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 3529
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2013, 08:15:45 AM »
Quote from: Steve Helmick on March 06, 2013, 11:01:24 PM
I know there aren't anymore 'flyovers' at NASCAR and other outdoor sporting events, but does this mean that the "Blue Angles" (sic) and USAF's "Thudnerbergs" (sic) are no longer? Anybody heard for sure?  :'( Steve

The Thunderbirds were here for the Daytona 500, but the ceilings were too low for a flyby (1200ft if I remember correctly)

Logged
Matt Colan

Offline Avaiojet

  • 22 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 7468
  • Just here for the fun of it also.
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2013, 08:40:49 AM »
Anybody got one of these?   ;D

1978, took a bunch of CAP Cadets.

We all got a brochure and meet some of the Pilots.

Breathtaking for the young Cadets! Well OK, me too.   #^

Charles
Logged
Trump Derangement Syndrome. TDS. 
Avaiojet Derangement Syndrome. ADS.
Amazing how ignorance can get in the way of the learning process.
If you're Trolled, you know you're doing something right.  Alpha Mike Foxtrot. "No one has ever made a difference by being like everyone else."  Marcus Cordeiro, The "Mark of Excellence," you will not be forgotten. "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."- Mark Twain. I look at the Forum as a place to contribute and make friends, some view it as a Realm where they could be King.   Proverb 11.9  "With his mouth the Godless destroys his neighbor..."  "Perhaps the greatest challenge in modeling is to build a competitive control line stunter that looks like a real airplane." David McCellan, 1980.

Offline Phillip Kenney

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Lieutenant
  • ***
  • Posts: 116
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2013, 08:46:18 AM »
Having been to the Las Vegas race several times I would bet they will still do the flyover this weekend since Nellis is next to the Speedway. Hopefully Fox will show more of the fly over than they do sometimes.
Last weekend in Arizona the flyby was done by a Confederate Air Force B-17.
Logged

Offline peabody

  • 23 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 2866
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2013, 09:29:16 AM »
I thought the CAF was the "Consolidated Air Force"?
Logged

Offline Phillip Kenney

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Lieutenant
  • ***
  • Posts: 116
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2013, 01:11:06 PM »
Ok, I missed the memo about the name change. Shows my age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_Air_Force
Logged

Offline James Mills

  • AMA Member and supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 1305
  • Welcome to the Stunt Hanger.
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2013, 01:35:08 PM »
Quote from: peabody on March 07, 2013, 09:29:16 AM
I thought the CAF was the "Consolidated Air Force"?
Yep, political correctness in action HB~>

James
Logged
AMA 491167

Offline peabody

  • 23 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 2866
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2013, 10:13:51 AM »
Lefty Gardner flew his P-38 into Cleveland (Burke) once....my father and I went down to meet him...
Logged

Offline Paul Smith

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 6130
Re: Blue Angles Airshow this weekend
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2013, 05:46:48 AM »
As an X-Air Force pilot I know that every squadron has a monthly flying time budget that it meets to the last tenth of an hour.  If they can do a stadium flyby within the budget it doesn't cost anything.  At Reese AFB Texas they did flybys for Texas tech football games and it didn't change the budget a penny.

But the T-Birds and Angels road trip is another thing altogether.  Those road shows cost huge money.  In a time of belt-tightening to bounce the budget, air shows are a good place to cut.  Also a round trip to Hawaii in a 747 for a round of golf.
Logged
Paul Smith

Advertise Here
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
Tags: