[simpits-tech] My lucky day...

[Sean Galbraith]

You very very very lucky individual you ;-)

I'd love to see the Blues in the flesh... shame our Governments don't see 
eye to eye :(

Sean.

At 12:44 AM 3/24/03 -0500, you wrote:
>This was airshow weekend in South West Florida at the Punta Gorda 
>Airport.  Every year our aviation unit receives complimentary passes from 
>the Sheriff's Aviation Unit based at the airport and I try to make it to 
>the airshow at least one of the two days.  We usually park at the 
>Sheriff's Hangar and share war stories for a little while then watch the 
>show.  This year I had a mission... which was to get some detail cockpit 
>pics of the F/A-18 and any other military jets I could get a peek into. I 
>pulled into the hangar parking area, got out of my truck and turned to see 
>Blue Angel #6 INSIDE the Sheriff's Hangar.  Seems that as they were flying 
>in for the show on Friday, BA#6 sucked large bird into the #1 
>engine.  They had the engine out in an hour but the lower leading edge of 
>the intake was damaged and get this....   they have to get the repair part 
>off a mothballed F-18 out at Davis Monthon.  Talked for a while with the 
>maintenance personnel, very nice!  Did I say cockpit pics??? :-)    I 
>almost missed the show.  I did find it interesting though that when the 
>Blue's took to the runway this afternoon I had to do a double 
>take...  'cause out taxied the opposing solo pilot in Blue Angel 
>#6.  HuH?  Vinyl lettering is great isn't it.  All in all a great 
>day.  I've seen the Blue Angels perform about 10 shows and the T-bird's 
>maybe 6, but I have never had the opportunity to get up close to the demo 
>aircraft.  For you Viper drivers the F-16 demo was awesome as usual and so 
>was the A-10 demo.  It was really humid and the vapor trails just made the 
>show that much better.  The only bad news is that I set up my camera wrong 
>and all my airborne pics came out BAD! :-(  Oh well... next year.
>
>http://www.simpits.org/fileproc/files/Dsc01431a.jpg
>http://www.simpits.org/fileproc/files/Dsc01570a.jpg
>
>BTW Gene...  can you add F/A-18 to the drop down list in the upload 
>section.  Kinda feeling left out... ;-)
>
>Ed
>
>
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