i am so in love with the blue angels. f-16s rock my socks. i get goosebumps every time i see them or even just pictures. i haven't made it to a SF fleet week yet, but i plan to soon.

anyway, here is a link to some pictures from this year's fleet week in SF. enjoy! i know i did :D

http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/

DD and I are, obviously. ;):P DD'll scream, "Angels! Aaaaannngggeeels! BLUE ANGELS!!!!" every time she sees any airplane. lol :giggle

Oh, and DH was ground crew for that show in those pics. He won't be doing the fleet week show this year though.

i started my job in mid july last year. the first weekend in august is a big summer festival in seattle, called seafair. i didn't know it, but the blue angels always perform there.

so anyways...my co workers say to me, "how do you feel about the blue angels, cuz they'll be practicing outside your window. it's kinda annoying when you're trying to get work done"

my response was "OMG!!!! SERIOUSLY???" & i started spouting all kindsa info. i was glued to my window the day they practiced!

that's soooo cool!!!!! i'm glad someone here appreciates it as much as i do :D

phallic displays of horsepower & thrust really do it for me. :D

i started my job in mid july last year. the first weekend in august is a big summer festival in seattle, called seafair. i didn't know it, but the blue angels always perform there.

so anyways...my co workers say to me, "how do you feel about the blue angels, cuz they'll be practicing outside your window. it's kinda annoying when you're trying to get work done"

my response was "OMG!!!! SERIOUSLY???" & i started spouting all kindsa info. i was glued to my window the day they practiced!

i'm so jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how awesome!!

phallic displays of horsepower & thrust really do it for me. :D

:roflmao

i'm so jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how awesome!!

i'm on the 14th floor of a 16 floor building & a few times they passed directly overhead & right out my window. pretty sweet. i squeeeeeeeeeeeee'd quite a bit that day.

i wish db had been here to watch the show w/ me. this year i think he & i will be in mi during seafair.

i'm on the 14th floor of a 16 floor building & a few times they passed directly overhead & right out my window. pretty sweet. i squeeeeeeeeeeeee'd quite a bit that day.

i wish db had been here to watch the show w/ me. this year i think he & i will be in mi during seafair.

oh man i would pay to be in your office!!!!

I am so over them :teehee

When we where stationed in El Centro, their "winter home", it was kinda of a pain when they came to town. They would do low fly overs at the crack of dawn and shake the whole house knocking pictures off my walls. Some of them where very cocky too, NOT ALL, but some of them needed their heads deflated.

a couple year's ago i went to the battle creek airshow where the thunderbirds were performing. the friend of the friend who invited me had a plane at the airport, so we watched the show from his hangar, which meant i had the thunderbirds & the lone f-18 that was performing flying directly over my head. that was darn sweet.

the f-18 did the singularity effect directly in front of me. only person closer than me to it was the pilot. also had him right overhead. very awesome experience. my heart was pounding, the air rumbling with the noise...awesome!

see. phallic displays of horse power & thrust do it for me. now if i could convice db i can totally handle drag racing his gt!!!!!

:drool i'm so envious.

Oh, but I would LOVE to ride in Fat Albert with the JATO rockets.

Dh and his friends got to do back in the day, and I was so jealous! :giggle

Oh, but I would LOVE to ride in Fat Albert with the JATO rockets.

Dh and his friends got to do back in the day, and I was so jealous! :giggle

i hear ya!!! :drool

and i can totally see how constant low flybys would get old :lol

i hear ya!!! :drool

and i can totally see how constant low flybys would get old :lol

yeah they did, 3 years in a row!! :lol

ive seen them once in person pretty amazing:)

yeah they did, 3 years in a row!! :lol

:shock that's no fun.

they have an airshow in my hometown and the blue angels are there fairly often. i've seen them quite a bit. my fondest memory is one time i was crying cause it was so loud, and at the time i was crying, they did the move where they make a heart in the air with the steam or whatever it is :D

i'm going to see them this year too with my dad :D:D

i started my job in mid july last year. the first weekend in august is a big summer festival in seattle, called seafair. i didn't know it, but the blue angels always perform there.

so anyways...my co workers say to me, "how do you feel about the blue angels, cuz they'll be practicing outside your window. it's kinda annoying when you're trying to get work done"

my response was "OMG!!!! SERIOUSLY???" & i started spouting all kindsa info. i was glued to my window the day they practiced!

I love the Blue Angels - as well as the Thunderbirds who are from my hometown of Las Vegas, over at Nellis AFB.

As for the noise overhead...that's the sound of freedom! Love it!!

:shock that's no fun.

they have an airshow in my hometown and the blue angels are there fairly often. i've seen them quite a bit. my fondest memory is one time i was crying cause it was so loud, and at the time i was crying, they did the move where they make a heart in the air with the steam or whatever it is :D

i'm going to see them this year too with my dad :D:D

That sounds nice going with your Dad :)

I know our kids would love to see them but they stopped doing airshows here in Lemoore.

oh bummer!!!! i hope they get to see them one day! it's such a great experience (as long as you don't live by them apparently :giggle)

and i agree phantom, it's the sound of freedom!!!

I am sure they will one of these days, their Daddy is in the Navy after all! :giggle

:rofl good point! haha

those were some awesome pics!!!

Great pics! I've never seen the Blue Angels but I'm a huge Red Arrows fan :D

I've been a fan almost my whole life. I grew up seeing them almost every year as part of San Francisco's fleet week. I've seen them at Miramar when we were stationed in San Diego and I've seen them every year we've been here in Virginia Beach. We actually get to see them about 2 days prior to the air show here because our house is in their flight path. They fly so low I can see their heads in the cockpit. :D

Here's some pictures we took from the air show in 2006.

chillen on the tarmac:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006011.jpg

warming up:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006014.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006016.jpg

taxing out:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006015.jpg

taking off in formation:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006017.jpg

taking off and going straight up:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006019.jpg

hard to see because it's blurry, but flying one on top of the other with the bottom guy upside down:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006022.jpg

random sky shots of them in formation:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006025.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006020.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/tcmartin31/AirShow2006018.jpg

Excellent pictures . You got a superb camera ,I need to buy one.
Photographer gets an A*. I really enjoyed looking at the pics .
Thank you ....

I love air shows and air craft. The Blue Angels fly F-18s though btw. :) The thunderbirds (or as I like to say, the Thunderchickens) fly F-16s. The air show's in Florida don't meet my schedule this Spring. I usually go the Florida air shows... :) I'm so jealous!!!!

I saw them in November!!! My first Air show..... and I fell in love.....

I love them! I would watch them everyday if I could! :D They are coming back to Maine next year and I am so going like I did last year! :tu :cp

BLUE ANGELS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

i love 'em!

I go to the show in Annapolis when they are getting ready for the graduation fly over.

I am excited for this year's!

They are coming back to Maine next year and I am so going like I did last year!

My DH will be ground crew for the one this year cuz it was our last duty station before coming here.....My mom and fam are driving from upstate NY to see it (it's a 8 hour drive). Her friend who is dying of cancer is going too if he makes it until then. I wish I could go to that show too (we LOVED Maine), but we can't afford it with the cruise we'll be taking in November.

so glad so many people enjoy them!

and yeah, ooops! i knew the blue angels were f-18 and thunderbirds were f-16.

i actually love the thunderbirds, as well.

I used to work right next to Oceana NAS and worked there over the summer during the Air Show this last year. I had a jet (not sure which kind) basically do a u-turn right above my head JUST above the treeline as I was standing outside my building. I couldn't even hear myself think. It was SO FREAKING COOL. I always loved watching the jets fly by, and jet noise doesn't bother me in the least!!