Blue Angels

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:04:54 -0400, "Mark Bowen"
wrote:


The Air Force's Thunderbirds never looked better bouncing off clouds, than
when I was trippin' on acid at Langely Field, Va in the mid-70s.
OP
Always worried about the air show guys screwing up and dropping a
plane in my back yard.....just off J. Clyde Morris Blvd.........but if
you spent a tour on acid you probably don't remember where that is.

Kiyu

On Jul 31, 3:49*pm, DaveS wrote:
I can hear the Blue Angels warming up for Sea-Fair outside. Always
incredible the BOEING F-18s are here 8/1-2 then its Salinas, Fargo, ND
and Offutt AFB, Neb. for rest of August. They will be at the Reno Air
Races 9/19-20. If you've never seen them check out the schedule on
their web site. They tour thru November then back to Pensacola NAS.

They'll be turning over my house (Offutt is 7 miles north).
Frank

What *is* the point of a bunch of jet jockeys doing stupid pet
tricks with multi-million dollar hardware that's the property
of the American people ?

I know its a waste of breath, but here goes. Most, if not all of
their maneuvers are used in combat situations. What they are is a
recruiting and marketing tool, appealing to the testosterone teenagers
in the target audience.
Are they totally necessary? Depends on your point of view. Will you
and I ever agree on this. Not without some good drugs on both
sides.
cheers
Frank

On Jul 31, 5:01*pm, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:


What *is* the point of a bunch of jet jockeys doing stupid pet
tricks with multi-million dollar hardware that's the property
of the American people ?

Providing the American people with a show that they paid for.

Moron.

g.
still wondering why he has to explain the simplest of explicit
messages to folks who lay claim to something vaguely resembling an
education.

On Jul 31, 5:57*pm, "Fred" wrote:
On 31-Jul-2009, Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Why don't you have a soldier, a sailor, a marine and an airman
go around the country flashing lots of bling and big guns while
blasting rap music from a big boom box. It's the same message,
"We big, we bad", delivered at the same intellectual level but
for far less tax dollars.

What *is* the point of a bunch of jet jockeys doing stupid pet
tricks with multi-million dollar hardware that's the property
of the American people ?

--

I could not agree more -

That's because you could not think more. In other words.....don't
worry too much about it.

POTY on this list

Stickler for high standards, eh?

g.

On Jul 31, 8:48*pm, "~^ beancounter ~^" wrote:

freedom isn't free...

It's never cost me a nickel.

jeeze, some folks just don't (and never will) get
it.......

Ainna?

g.

On Jul 31, 8:55*pm, (Kiyu) wrote:


Always worried about the air show guys screwing up and dropping a
plane in my back yard.....just off J. Clyde Morris Blvd.........but if
you spent a tour on acid you probably don't remember where that is.

Well, *I* have never (to the best of my recollection) dropped acid and
I don't remember where that is either.

On the other hand I have had them.....or someone very much like
them.....come over my head at just about treetop level at mach 3 or 9
or something up in the woods in the U.P. It was MOST goddamn
impressive and memorable. A few days ago they were chasing me around
the freeway along the lakeshore in downtown Milwaukee, albeit at much
lower speeds. Still impressive.

g.
who is pretty sure he could still kick their asses on the ground in a
drunken stupor......but can't quite remember how to fetch one of
those.

On Jul 31, 8:16*pm, Outdoors in Oregon wrote:
On Jul 31, 1:49*pm, DaveS wrote:

I can hear the Blue Angels warming up for Sea-Fair outside. Always
incredible the BOEING F-18s are here 8/1-2 then its Salinas, Fargo, ND
and Offutt AFB, Neb. for rest of August. They will be at the Reno Air
Races 9/19-20. If you've never seen them check out the schedule on
their web site. They tour thru November then back to Pensacola NAS.

Dave

We'll have the Thunderbirds here in Hillsboro in a couple weeks.
[Un]fortunately I live 1/2 mile from the airport.
* * - Ken

Yeah, that's kind of far away. Maybe if you got a really big
telescope.........

g.

On Jul 31, 3:01*pm, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
DaveS wrote:
Ken Fortenberry *wrote:
DaveS wrote:
I can hear the Blue Angels warming up for Sea-Fair outside. Always
incredible the BOEING F-18s are here 8/1-2 then its Salinas, Fargo, ND
and Offutt AFB, Neb. for rest of August. They will be at the Reno Air
Races 9/19-20. If you've never seen them check out the schedule on
their web site. They tour thru November then back to Pensacola NAS.
The Blue Angels are an obscene and disgusting waste of aviation fuel.
It reminds me of troops goose-stepping alongside ballistic missiles
in Red Square. Don't we have better things to do with our tax dollars
than put on displays of testosterone fueled stupidity ?

Details, details, details. Tell you what, take two aspirin and call
the Doc if that bug doesn't pass by morning. B;-0)

Why don't you have a soldier, a sailor, a marine and an airman
go around the country flashing lots of bling and big guns while
blasting rap music from a big boom box. It's the same message,
"We big, we bad", delivered at the same intellectual level but
for far less tax dollars.

What *is* the point of a bunch of jet jockeys doing stupid pet
tricks with multi-million dollar hardware that's the property
of the American people ?

--
Ken Fortenberry

OK look, What can I say, WE LIKE AIRPLANES IN SEATTLE. I can watch the
film of Tex Johnson's barrel roll of the first 707 over lake
Washington over and over and over. So will I go to Hell for that?

I take it you also don't watch videos of the Reno Air Races, or can
recognize the distinctive sound of a B-17's engines, or marvel at the
triumph of machining that is the Curtis Wright radial engine. I may
consider the lack of these experiences with dismay, but I would never
fully restrict your movements or send you to a re-education camp for
very long due just to their absence. Which proves that I am a tolerant
person.

Dave

Over in the UK, I was right in the middle of my backcast when a
Tornado came over my head at about 150 feet doing mach snot. The
plane went over, then the bang, then the wind from the vortices.
Needless to say, really screwed up my cast, i.e. before the loop of
line settled around me, I was hugging mud.
Frank Reid