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Old 11th October 2018, 03:22   #1
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Photologue: The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show

First week of October is the Annual Naval Fleet week of San Francisco. One of the highlights is the Air show, and the highlight of the Air show are the Blue Angels (American Surya Kiran, but blue).
Of course there is Sean D Tucker and team Oracle and an United Boeing 777 doing very un boeing like things

On Sunday we decided to catch the show, and here is the photolog.. Mostly blue angles

Of course what is an Airshow without some Dogs...
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And Protesters!
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And planes. These are the blue angels. Some really amazing flying happening
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Old 11th October 2018, 03:27   #2
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re: Photologue: The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show

Vertical flying, Horizontal flying and diagonal flying some of it upside down
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And of course, some crazy G loops
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Followed by a Heart, with an arrow to boot
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Old 11th October 2018, 03:32   #3
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re: Photologue: The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show

There is some truly spectacular close formation flying.
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Its SFO, not Seattle, so there is plenty of sunlight to go around, and reflect
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There are 6 angles, often 4 fly together, but here we see the 5th come in for a sweeping loop
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Old 13th October 2018, 12:58   #5
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re: Photologue: The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show

Not all fighters are made for range, and esp with Acrobatics, fuel consumption is a lot more. So the Blue angels made a final pass before their fuel break
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One of them buzzed the boats. I guess the peace boat wouldn't have liked it
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With that it would have been almost an hour of listening to just Top Gun anthem, but fear not. Team Oracle is here.

We start with a 9


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Or is it a "G"

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Some crazy G force pulling stunts in what is effectively a 100 year old design.

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After some really tight loops and hair raising stunts, it was time for something bigger. Much much bigger
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Old 13th October 2018, 13:03   #6
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re: Photologue: The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show

Its a United Airlines 777. Yup. If you thought acrobatics were the domain of Team Oracle or Blue angles, never underestimate a bored commercial pilot.
Too bad there were no flips... But then, a close pass from a 777. Bring it on!
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This looks like opening scene from Airframe type of movie, where a 2 year old with 33 month experience in a flight simulator lands the plane in a sea after the pilot is eaten by a giant alien slug

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Catching the sun
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And then from the horizon comes another plane. This is something old school Aviation enthusiasts can tell you what it is. For me it was just another cool plane....
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And then, far on the horizon, the Angles are coming back
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Old 13th October 2018, 13:10   #7
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re: Photologue: The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show

The Peace boat now looks very un-peacy. Looks like they got buzzed one too many
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And here they come, over Berkeley. Its a hot day, and the Heat distortion is clearly visible. Can you spot 6 of them
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Two break formation, and 4 line up, for some really close flying
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Here they are
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This is some incredible formation flying
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Er... Planning to land?
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Naah just bluffing. Look at one of them go upside down. Looking for Demagorgons?
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Well, watching them swoop by, I guess even that would be terrified
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They come in with a smoke trail
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And then buzz past
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Its beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Such is this dance
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Old 13th October 2018, 13:16   #8
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re: Photologue: The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show

We are not done yet. Time for some really cool formation flying
Sonata Parallaletica
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Number 5 is coming in now
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And now there are 5
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The flyby formation is perfect, and with the sound, it literally rattles your bones
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This is adrenaline
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Now they again take off for the "air anchor"
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And the formation separates, time for something really really hair raising now
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The boats are the best place to be buzzed, but they are going to get an even better treat
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Old 13th October 2018, 13:24   #9
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Yes, its the game of chicken. I have seen it being played on 2 lain highways in Kerala, with contact.
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Over here, its just a buzz
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But seriously, you forget to breathe, atleast for a while
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Meanwhile, cool formation flying goes on
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They are packed denser than Delhi metro on 14th Aug Eve
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The two outliers do some close chicken buzzing again
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And then some slow flying
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As the two go around, 4 do some neat flying
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And then we are all united.
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The Six angles, flying as if on rails. Seriously, I have sat in trains which moved from their tracks more than this
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Aaaannd, its time to diverge again
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This is the last sequence, and they give their best. Some serious close flying, rattling us all to the bone

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This is followed by some close passbys. And all six of them did it together.
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Time for a goodbye.. This is the final formation. And it ends
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The crowd dissapears slowly, and we make our way to the bus to get to the parking lot. But when you are in SFO, why not make the best of the day, and watch the sunset

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And with it , Ends the photolog
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That 777 looks like a Beluga whale jumping out of sea water . Can it do a Pugachev's Cobra maneuver?

These days, since engines of passenger aircraft are so powerful (aircraft can takeoff on full load with just one functional engine), Boeing loves to show-off like this:

Boeing 737 Max:




Boeing 787 Dreamliner:

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Some amazing pics! You must have had an amazing experience! Once I was in LA during the 4th of July. I heard there was an demonstration going to happen somewhere but missed it. I love the Blue Angels!

Your pics are simply brilliant! May I ask which gear did you use?

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And planes. These are the blue angels. Some really amazing flying happening
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Well, I hate to be that person, but I would like to make a small correction. These are the Patriots Jet Team. Blue Angels only fly the F/A-18 Hornet. The Blue Angels are in your later pics. The cool looking planes with US NAVY written under the wings.

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This is the blue angels support plane. It's a c 130 Hercules.

All the support staff for the team and spare parts and logistics are carried on this plane.

The crew calls it FAT ALBERT.

When the angels perform at an airport the fat albert gets rocket pods (additional thrust) attached to the aft fuselage and are used to demonstrate very short takeoff and near vertical climb.
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The crew calls it FAT ALBERT.

When the angels perform at an airport the fat albert gets rocket pods (additional thrust) attached to the aft fuselage and are used to demonstrate very short takeoff and near vertical climb.
This is what that looks like: (wait till 24 seconds into the video)



I don’t think they do the rockets anymore, seem to recall they stopped that some years ago. But they do get to show of their flying skills too.

This is

It is a pretty spectacular display. Look at this video taken from the cockpit. Watch the crew float our of their seats at the top of a very aggressive take off.



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