 | mmm| Modern Discuss mmm in the Other Eras forums; At the football game they had two flyovers as part of a salute to our armed forces. They had two ... |
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10-30-2005, 11:49 AM
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At the football game they had two flyovers as part of a salute to our armed forces. They had two F/A-18's and two F-16C's- that made my friggin day! They flew real low over the stadium and i got goosebumps. I've never seen F-16's fly so close- they sound great! Better than the -18s, anyways. I was so psyched. Whoo! The -16's were from the texas air national guard and the -18's were part of the marine All weather attack team and both had just completed a tour in either Afghanistan or Iraq. Very patriotic. Very awesome. Just about lost it in my pants. Bush senior (not really senior but the first one) was there and he awarded two current aggie students in the armed forces purple hearts. GO USA!
p.s. i've got a video as soon as my friend uploads it...
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10-30-2005, 03:13 PM
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#2 | | Der Crewchief
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I have seen the Blue Angels with there F-18's and the Thunderbirds with there F-16's several times at Air Shows and it really is amazing.
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10-30-2005, 05:26 PM
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Country: | I've seen the Blue Angels before and it was from the space needle in seattle. Good stuff.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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10-30-2005, 09:14 PM
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#4 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | I hate to say this as an Air Force vet, but the Blue Angels are actually better than the Thunderbirds.
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10-31-2005, 10:45 AM
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#5 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | whereas the Red arrows are the best display team in the world, yes CC, even better then the Frecci Tricolouri (man i wish i could spell)..........
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10-31-2005, 10:51 AM
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Country:  | The Frecce Tricolori are far better...perhaps this would make a neat poll...
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10-31-2005, 11:01 AM
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10-31-2005, 11:05 AM
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Country: | red arrows rock! they do a formation called the lancaster! what could be cooler! and the flight leader is unbelievably british..........
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10-31-2005, 11:07 AM
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Country:  | for noise power and excitement i gotta vote with blue angels followed by thunder birds but they require a large show area more blank spots in the show as the for larger teams red arrows over the snowbirds only because of the ac type if i was going to take a neophyte to an airshow the us teams are more impressive but snowbirds and red arrows are more finesse the frecchi Tricolori are also very good but not the best
i get to see a lot of these guys as my house is pretty close to the falls and everybody likes to do a few laps around for photo ops
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10-31-2005, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass red arrows rock! they do a formation called the lancaster! what could be cooler! and the flight leader is unbelievably british.......... | They do. He is isn't he 
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10-31-2005, 11:10 AM
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Country: | Frecce Tricolori are awesome...The freestyle guy is awesome, and there are no better smoke artists... 
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| .. in my 'ultralight' times I had a friend who was mad with Frecce Tricolori
He somehow managed to have authorization to land his dragonfly on their airfield, had spare wheels with him, replaced the wheels after landing to 'preserve their purity' and put in his living room the 'wheels who touched the sacred soil' !
People is crazy...
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11-01-2005, 12:04 PM
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#14 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Personally I like all the team teams. I dont care which one is better. They are all amazing pilots and what they do is very difficult. My hats off to them all and I like them all.
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11-01-2005, 01:21 PM
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