Posted on 04/30/2020 5:46:11 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The US Navy Blue Angels and US Air Force Thunderbirds performed a very rare joint flyover above New York City, Trenton, Newark, and Philadelphia on April 28, 2020 to honor health care and essential workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
The teams departed from NAS Pensacola in Florida and were refueling mid-flight by four KC-10 Extenders before returning back to Pensacola.
Flyovers will continue around the country under the name Operation America Strong.
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They’re using the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds to spread hydroxychloroquine over the city through their chemtrails.
In my suburb I was on a call wfh but my family just going for a drive
saw
I heard the sound of thunder
Outstanding show! Seeing them fly over the Statue of Liberty gives me goosebumps.A few years back the Blue Angels appeared at an Air Force base located within a mile of where my sister lives.I got to see them do practice runs over her neighborhood a couple of days before the show.Breathtaking!
Check out the 12 minutes and 5 seconds. Looks like they almost had an accident.
Watched the whole video. Awesome footage! Refueling looks like it takes exceptional skill.
Check out 12 minutes and 5 seconds again. That was a close call.
LOL, don’t give the Lefties any ideas...that may not have occurred to them yet!
Some observations just from the first moments.
Look at the upside-down “5” on the Thunderbird. The names on the righthand side are the crew chief ‘Owners” of the aircraft, the Pilot just gets to use the a/c.
Look at the difference in the landing gears between the F-16 and the F/A-18 of the Blue Angels! Carrier landings NEED heavy duty!
Hard to believe that both aircraft came out of the 1970s USAF “Light Weight Fighter” program. The YF-16 from General Dynamics won the fly-off but Northrup’s YF-17 was ‘evolved’ through the USN’s Naval Fighter Attack Experimental (VFAX) program into the F/A-18 Hornet that has now evolved into the “Super Hornet”.
The Blue Angels are still flying the Hornet but will be transitioning to the Super Hornets in 2021. Lockheed-Martin now builds the F-16s but only for the export market. Boeing is the manufacturer for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. 46 years for both designs, good value I’d say!
The seniors all over the country facing the darkness of unending quarantine,Love seeing the planes that remind them of historical times when fathers, brothers, and grandparents all proudly served in uniform.God Bless America.
Awesome,saw them both at the Jones Beach airshow.
I lived in Vegas back in the sixties and Nellis is homebase for the Thunderbirds. They were flying F-100 Super Sabers in those days and every once in a while I’d see some F-86 Sabers with the Thunderbird design on them. Boy am I getting/old.
That's the Lead Solo, who spends most of the show inverted. This year it's a chick:
Added observations;
That picture of the Thunderbirds stacked over the Blue Angels at 08:21 is just BEAUTIFUL!
The F-16 have side-controllers while the F/A-18s have a mid-cockpit stick.
The dual seat F-16 (#32 01:00) was probably the film & picture taker for this extravaganza and you can see it in many of the cockpit camera shots.
Consider the differences in the refueling process. The F-16 pilot is tasked to steady light while the boom-operator ‘flies’ the nozzle into the receptacle. The ‘drogue & probe’ makes the pilot of the F/A-18 responsible for the action. My ‘guess’ is that the navy carrier tankers are the reason for this system.
Quite a nifty hands-free video cameras in the cockpits of both groups.
Flying over NYC, two thoughts. I could see why landing on the Hudson looked good for ‘Scully Sullenberger” (USAFA 1973) in the 2009 “Miracle on the Hudson”. Second, the 137 year old Brooklyn Bridge still looks beautiful and not a day over 80!
For the aviation buff amongst us, a wonderful video!
They are going to be over Indy on Saturday they cancelled today due to weather.
I thought they were going to do this in FL this weekend, but now hearing they’re not :(
WOW!!!
That is some AMAZING footage!
man did i take a wrong career path in life...
I happened to see this today. The videos and photos are spectacular.
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