Full throttle with the Blue Angels (AJC staffer turns blue)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | April '06 | Steve Beatty

[avg_freeper]

Before this weekend's free airshow at Naval Air Station Atlanta, AJC staffer Steve Beatty joined Lt. Kevin Davis for a fun-filled afternoon of barrel rolls and other tricks high above Athens in a $24 million F/A-18.

Beatty only passed out three times.

See the highlights.

[avg_freeper]

Get a load of this!

I always love it when the Blue Angels take up a local reporter. The results are always entertaining.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"I always love it when the Blue Angels take up a local reporter."

I hate it, it should be me. I am a private pilot damn it all! Stoopid reporters. Blech.

[MineralMan]

Are those acute or obtuse blue angles?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Are those acute or obtuse blue angles?

If you're piloting an FA-18...you'd better be acute.

[avg_freeper]

They're equilateral. (dammit!)

[TomServo]

lol...

[Cecily]

Great videos, but the reporter looks a little silly chewing his gum.

[MineralMan]

Just rubbing it in a little...since I have no life today:

[Fighting Irish]

I remember the days when we had to lock ourselves up in a small room sans windows to work on the avionics plans for this bird when it was still top secret...... and I NEVER EVEN GOT TO RIDE IN ONE ..... DANG-IT-ALL!

[avg_freeper]

Could the misspelling in my title be corrected? (Angles should be Angels)

Thanks either way!

[Fighting Irish]

Was fun to watch the reporter pass out though.....heh heh

[avg_freeper]

The chewing gum helps the untrained to adjust to quick pressure altitude changes. Opens your ear canal.

[linear]

This is hilarious, although that reporter was lucky he didn't swallow that damn gum.

[Dog Gone]

Scene three was the best.

[r9etb]

Coolest part of the whole thing was on the first clip, watching the ground moving away as the F18 climbed straight up.

[null and void]

They're equilateral.

Right.

[MineralMan]

AWW! The moderator changed the title and spoiled our fun. Waaaaaaah! [grin]

[avg_freeper]

watching the ground moving away as the F18 climbed straight up.

From the rattling of the building I'm in I think they're doing that right now.

[MineralMan]

"Right."

Now, stop that! Angles...triangles...what's the difference, anyhow. As long as they're blue...it's OK by me if they're equilateral, although I would let my daughter marry one.