US Navy Blue Angels Display Team

[Larry Fisher]

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[Tomcatlover]

[Aviationbuff]

I was browsing through my old 35mm scans this morning and came upon this shot of #4. I believe this was in the mid 80's at a Cedar Rapids, IA show.

[Nate Burrows]

The Last I knew the last time the blues where in CR was in the 1970 when the F-4 crashed, but thats was my Dad told me and hes turning 50 and not the greatest memory.But if that pic is correct thats pretty cool that the blues flew in CR. I have photos from the 86 and 87 show but none of the pics show the Blue Angels. But a History teacher at my school told me that at one of the shows there was a A-10 Demo and my school's wrestling coach jumped into one of the shows. If you have any more photos from that show pm and show them to me.

[Les Baldwin]

Shock Wave... 

Roger,

You old sea dog!!  Great shot, love the waves off of the A/C I guess I am going to have to try harder!! Good JOB

Tally Ho dude!!

LEs

[PJB]

When the Angels switched from the F4 to the A4 in the early '70s, the planes were modified at Plant 42 in Palmdale, and would be tested-shaken down at the airfield.. with a -very- complaint tower, permitting them to do passes down each side of the active runway, -while- the active runway was being used by other traffic!

[Paperpilot]

I was browsing through my old 35mm scans this morning and came upon this shot of #4. I believe this was in the mid 80's at a Cedar Rapids, IA show.

I've always thought the A-4 was the best Blue aircraft ever. I was born and raised on NAS Pensacola with those beauties flying around all the time so I've always been partial.

Anyone else have A-4 BA pictures?


cheers,
PP

[ST0RM]

Great shot of the Blues Scooter! It brings back some fond memories.

Jeff

[Tomcatlover]

[Reaper02]

Hi there,

Here my addition to the 'Blue' topic. Fat Albert getting airborne during their only European show in 2006, held in the Netherlands on Leeuwarden Airbase in June:



Hope you'll like it!

Rgds, Edwin Schimmel

[UK_Tomcat_Fan]

Once you go gucci you never go back!!   I still have a soft spot for the -135, I had a lot of fun in that jet, got some great shots too.

Im assuming the gucci is the Kc-10?

[BillF]

Pensacola practice (me, too) yesterday:











Perfect 3-point landing whether he wanted one or not:

[bigtnbob]

bill, that is what i call some very hot shots!! practise at pcola is always good.
bob mcphersonjavascript:void(0);

[BillF]

Thanks, Bob.

It should be noted that the visible dust spots are OEM dust spots. I didn't think I'd have to clean the sensor before I first used the new camera, but obviously I did need to. 

[BillF]