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Threshold...Old Skool Blue Angels...
- Thread starter Mumbles
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I remember seeing the Blue's flying F-4's when I was a teenager, it seemed like the loops topped at 5,000 feet they were so big. Awesome vid.
There's a part in the movie of one the solos doing a loop, and when he's at the apex....he says "Boss....I just got real scared....my A/S indicator just showed 40 KIAs"!
I never saw any Blue's show pre-jet age ... but:
IN the "jet age" ... the best shows I've seen, hands down:
If you didn't see those shows ... you will never understand ... and more is the pity ...
IN the "jet age" ... the best shows I've seen, hands down:
If you didn't see those shows ... you will never understand ... and more is the pity ...
I never saw any Blue's show pre-jet age ... but:
IN the "jet age" ... the best shows I've seen, hands down:
If you didn't see those shows ... you will never understand ... and more is the pity ...
Saw the Blues fly in A-4's practicing for the Chicago Air & Water show, sat on a park bench and they would come screaming over my head at times. I remember being impressed with how nimble they were.
Waiting for CAT to chime in ... waiting ... waiting ... wait for it, now ... wait for it ...
Threshold is a phenomenal movie...
...but a lackluster DVD.
...but a lackluster DVD.
"They" flew it w/out anyone in any seat .... as any fool can plainly see
Looks like the one in Cleveland. Opposite the Thderbird F4
Except for this one airshow in Topeka, KS in 1970 or 1971 when Harley Hall was Blue #1 and his and the #4 birds had backseaters (my brother and I). Thrill of a lifetime for a 10 year old but all I remember was him telling me to keep my head down while we were on the ground (so no one would see me), "don't touch anything", the sky spinning and puking my guts out....it was obviously a different era in Naval Aviation back then....
I told Trader John the story one night in Pensacola after I was out of AOCS and waiting for VT-10. He said he'd heard of Harley doing this for his relatives a few times and then he took me down the bar and introduced me to the current Blues CO. I ended up getting a few TA-4 rides around Pensacola that fall.