Posted on 08/14/2007 12:51:09 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco's skies are safe for the Blue Angels. A Board of Supervisors committee Monday rejected a measure that would have called for a permanent end to the high-flying, aerobatic show that happens yearly during Fleet Week.
The committee voted 2-1 to table the measure, authored by Supervisor Chris Daly, effectively killing it. But Daly, who cited public safety and noise concerns as his reasons for proposing the ban, promised to continue pushing it.
"We've been lucky here in San Francisco," Daly said, noting that 26 crew members have died in incidents since 1946 when the Navy formed the flight demonstration team.
In April, a Blue Angel F/A-18 Hornet jet crashed during a performance in Beaufort, S.C., killing the pilot, injuring eight people and damaging several homes.
"Think about what would happen if there was a crash in San Francisco. Obviously, there would be significant loss of life beyond losing a pilot," said Daly, who added that the crash in South Carolina prompted him to seek the ban.
But the other members of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee - supervisors Sean Elsbernd and Michela Alioto-Pier - were not convinced, saying that the measure failed to account for the economic impact of visitors who come specifically for the show and noted that no one with expertise about the risks of the event testified at the hearing.
"(The measure) is a little fly-by-night, 'let's do this because we think it might not be safe,' " said Alioto-Pier, who said she was contacted by hundreds of city residents on the issue and most wanted the Blue Angels to stay.
A spokesman for the Navy said the Federal Aviation Administration consults with the Blue Angels on every show about the potential risks of performing certain maneuvers. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
There seems to be a lot more of the local officials kiss the arses of dictators.
Anything to make a buck. The meter maids go into a FEEDING FRENZY on that weekend, writing tickets right and left, down at the Marina where everybody leaves their car double-parked, triple-parked, etc, at the foot of Fillmore Street. People just walk away and leave their cars parked illegally; they don't care about the tickets. The city probably makes a ton of money on that weekend, much of it from parking tickets.
There are three people on the committee, and the only one that voted for the proposal was the idiot that submitted it.
He (IIRC) is also the one who succeeded in getting the U.S. Navy ship (can’t remember the name) banned from SF?................
Here is a related piece:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/08/24/cstillwell.DTL
Pretty Blue Angels Of Death
A dazzling air show, a bitter reminder of what hell we are causing elsewhere, free balloons for the kids
By Mark Morford, SF Gate ColumnistWednesday, October 16, 2002
Let us now happily observe the Navy's shiny and world-renowned Blue Angels precision flying team roaring over S.F. Bay, shaking the office windows and triggering a million car alarms and inducing coronaries in the elderly and panicking the easily panickable into thinking Armageddon is at hand at last, take me Jesus I am ready, oh wait, damn, it's just Fleet Week.
Let us further imagine the happy throngs of spectators enjoying the annual air show (yours truly included), over a million people this past weekend, all largely awed by the power and grace and insane fuel consumption and butt-clenching roar of the six powerful F/A-18 Hornets dancing over Alcatraz and pretending to almost collide and causing ten thousand Marina babies to cry.
Such was the scene we witnessed over the past sunny lovely weekend in San Francisco, repeated every year except last, what with the 9/11 confusion and all, not really a good time to demonstrate the power and intense danger of hardcore macho military aircraft buzzing around tall buildings in a major city at 600 mph. . . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2002/10/16/notes101602.DTL&hw=morford&sn=427&sc=939
A grown man afraid of airplanes. Pa-the-tic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Daly
Chris Daly (born 1972) is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Daly is married to Sarah Low Daly, whom he met at the World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba; they have a son,
In June 2007, Daly announced that he was working with anti-war activist organizations such as Code Pink, Global Exchange and Veterans for Peace and considering introducing a proposal to ban the Blue Angels from flying during San Francisco’s Fleet Week
I’m almost surprised that San Francisco permits anyone to have the title of “supervisor.” It’s so indicative of hierarchy and I’m sure it spawns class envy. “Comrade” would be much better.
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Thanks, Vroom, I surely missed this.
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A defeat for the Left once again! How sweet it is!
International ANSWER is staging a national membership campaign in October on high school and college campuses. This Marxist/Stalinist organization is allowed to bring their filthy propoganda to pollute the kids, but recruiters they try to stop the recruiters. Hopefully, parents will stand up to against this!
Just bomb ‘em.
It would probably be OK if the plane in the slot position would fly with it’s refueling probe in the lead aircrafts tailpipe.
A friend of mine who used to fly in AC-130 gunships used to say: “You can run, but you’ll only die tired.”
I worked south of Market in the late 80s and LOVED hearing the Angels practice!! Glad they stay and I get to see them.
Daly is a chump.
And how “San Francisco waterfront” a name is “Alioto-Pier”?
I worked on New Montgomery street in the late 80’s, right across from the Sheraton Palace.
Great city; just to many leftists and lunatics.
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