Blue Angels ~ climb aboard....

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

this is possibly as close to "catching a hop" with the angels as most of us will ever get.and over the "mother ship"no less.

Blue Angels Air Show over Annapolis.



http://www.dump.com/2011/10/26/raw-cockpit-footage-taken-during-a-blue-angels-air-show-video/

 

[Elson(La)]

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[Craig in Alabama]

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[Ma Betty in MO]

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[Steve in Indianapolis]

[size=large]Even after all these years, I STILL get a lump in my throat whenever I see them. They are the very best.[/size]

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[cyberdan (SoCA)]

Brings back some memories. I too was in the Navy, on a ship in the tonkin Gulf off the coast of viet nam. I was a photographer, not in the air division but I could fly anytime to get a "good picture" We had two Chinook HC3 helocopters. Those pilots would do anything in them. There would be times we were close to Danang and I would fly in with them to pick up the mail for the ship. The guys would try a lot of tricks once thay got out of sight of the ship. If they saw a junk they would go down and investigate, if there was laundry hanging they would hover till it blew in the water. That thing can even go 100 mph backwards (or so the pilot says)

I did see one do a 360 which they are not designed to do. It was too low over water and bounced once and sunk. Only one of the guys got out. RIP guys