Blue Angels

[Houdini]

Developing story. Blue Angel F-18 crashed at air show. One pilot dead.

Another tragedy. I've seen them practice, and they are very, very good.

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[RIVERWIDOW]

This sucks. My daughters best friend is married to a Blue Angel.
He is a pilot stationed in Japan but they fly all over to do shows.

[ShawnLee]

Crazy. Sad.

[Sirrich3]

Wow, I have seen them before. Can't imagine how the spectators reacted

[DarkFury]

Yeah.. that's shocking news.

The Blue Angels home base used to be in my hometown Pensacola, FL... so of course we've always had a special affinity for them.

Tis sad news indeed.... :sad:

[ArkiStan]

Reminds me of my days in the air force doing accident investigations. I've seen countless widowed wives and families left behind and it's always a tragic sight. I have tremendous sympathy for families of pilots who have to live with the fear of an accident every single day. Being a pilot is an honorable and rewarding job, but an extremely dangerous one, regardless of whether you're deployed or not. All the accidents I've witnessed were from training missions.

RIP

[Houdini]

Yeah.. that's shocking news.

The Blue Angels home base used to be in my hometown Pensacola, FL... so of course we've always had a special affinity for them.

Tis sad news indeed.... :sad:

Still are based there, AFAIK. I see them often when I'm in the Pensacola area. Not so much in Pensacola unless you go onto base, but if you're at Gulf Shores/Orange Beach or something, it's fairly common to see a formation buzz by. Pretty damn cool to see.

[eSDee]

They are based out of my home town El Centro for a few months a year. Sad news.

[yippiekiyeh]

They definitely have the shine and polish of the best of the best, but even they are human, and errors do happen... wow