June 2, 2010

The Horsemen and The Blue Angels.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jim @ 8:43 pm

The Horsemen, a precision flying team that flies F-8F Bearcats performs in this video with the Navy’s Blue Angels. As one of the original Blue Angels explains in the video, when the Blue Angels were formed in 1946, they flew Hellcats for approximately three months before they switched to Bearcats. Watching the reaction of one of the original Blue Angels to the performance was terrific. It’s a great video.

Via Big Geek Daddy; lots of good stuff there

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  1. My dad learned to fly, courtesy of the Navy, 1945. His mom made him give it up after she lost his brother that way. Flying was his first love.

    Eventually he figured his promise to her was fulfilled and he took it up again. He still has a pilot’s license and he still flies his Europa most weeks.

    Before the Europa, he was a part owner in a 1942 aircraft, an Interstate Cadet, which is a fabric covered high wing monoplane observer / trainer with a wooden main wing spar and metal fuselage frame. Whenever we landed at a new airport in that thing, the pilots came out to stare at it.

    Comment by Carl Brannen — June 2, 2010 @ 11:46 pm

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