PNS Blue Angels 2
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Wednesday April 13, 2016
Pensacola NAS Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida
It's The Blue Angels Baby!
Also see Blue Angels 1 blog post http://sbtrof.blogspot.com/2016/04/pensacola-nas-blue-angels-1.html
Been to Pensacola a couple times but never got to the Naval Aviation Museum. Finally.
There are 3 things that make a good movie; 1. Marines, 2. Shooting, 3. Airplanes.
If you wanted to make an even better movie it would have; 1. more Marines, 2. more Shooting, 3. more Airplanes.
There are variations to those themes. Marine pilots flying Airplanes and Shooting.
The
Navy/ Marine Corps team can't be beat. So it was a thrill to just be
walking around the museum among ALL the history and restored Navy,
Marine Corps aircraft.
It was a rainy overcast day, light rain/ drizzle, perfect to be inside a flight museum.
From
the earliest WWI biplanes and trainers through the successive
generations of flight. WWII Grumman "Avenger" torpedo bombers, F4U
Corsairs,
and then you heard it...
...couple more munutes. again, SSSsssscccchhhhqqqqeeeeeeeewwwwww. another jet flying by.
I'm
at the back door of the museum. There's a courtyard opening to go over
to see more planes in "Hangar 1", an additional museum building. There's
a fantastic EC-2 "Hawkeye" - that's the AWACS model version that I remember
on board the USS Coral Sea- ... this was a newer modern version. Walking
around the Hawkeye I could hear the jets...
and then they came by again.... Hot Damn, It's the Blue Angels Baby!
The Angels are doing some final practice runs for their show in
Tennessee this weekend.
So for about 30 minutes in light rain we see a few passes of the Angels. Fantastic!
You never drink twice from the same stream.
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