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Huh... I just realized we didn't have our airshow this year. That slipped by quietly. That's a shame, my oldest really enjoyed it last year, I would have liked to have taken him again.
I remember seeing them at an airshow back at Mather AFB in SE Sacramento area when I was 5 or 6 I think. They had a B-29 there too. Was awesome then, and is probably even better now.
djones520 wrote: Huh... I just realized we didn't have our airshow this year. That slipped by quietly. That's a shame, my oldest really enjoyed it last year, I would have liked to have taken him again.
I don't think there was a lot to see anyway.
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As a Brit I of course have to put in a Word for the Red Arrows.
That said, I have actually seen two display teams that are (just) better...
First up is the South Korean display team, the Black Eagles. Not sure how many Yanks would have seen them live, but they visited the UK in 2012. Also pretty interesting to see how the planes got here (video in Korean):
Most incredible of all are The Blades. They're a British commercial display team. Basically take four ex-Red Arrows pilots, put them in pure aerobatic aircraft, and watch the laws of physics go out the window!
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The radio calls. They're said the same (usually really idiosyncratic) way every time. A lot of the Blue Angels' sounds very sing-songy. It's hard to explain, but it's a little like the music that accompanies the dance, I guess. You know where you're supposed to be at any given note.
In normal (i.e., non-aerobatic) formation flying, you're basically just keeping whoever you're visually keying off of in the same spot relative to you, so you don't normally do verbal instructions, it's just staring at the other jet. Like driving down the highway and keeping the guy in the next lane dead even - you just stare over and adjust based on his relative position. Flying as close as flight demonstration teams do, you're doing the same thing, but you're also all synchronized by the lead's voice, so everybody's drawing back power or pulling the stick or whatever at the same time, without the lag of them starting to drift closer/away/ahead/astern before you begin to correct.
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The radio calls. They're said the same (usually really idiosyncratic) way every time. A lot of the Blue Angels' sounds very sing-songy. It's hard to explain, but it's a little like the music that accompanies the dance, I guess. You know where you're supposed to be at any given note.
In normal (i.e., non-aerobatic) formation flying, you're basically just keeping whoever you're visually keying off of in the same spot relative to you, so you don't normally do verbal instructions, it's just staring at the other jet. Like driving down the highway and keeping the guy in the next lane dead even - you just stare over and adjust based on his relative position. Flying as close as flight demonstration teams do, you're doing the same thing, but you're also all synchronized by the lead's voice, so everybody's drawing back power or pulling the stick or whatever at the same time, without the lag of them starting to drift closer/away/ahead/astern before you begin to correct.
They're all ex-Red Arrows, I'd guess they're using the same system?
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