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Sad story........

PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:17 pm
by FiGHtA_PiLoT
One of the Blue Angels  guys died in a huge crash. That sucks :(

bwaa bwaa bwaaaaaaaaaa
bwaaaa bwaaaa bwaaaaaaa
bwaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaa bwaaaaa
bwaaaaaaaaa
(US military trumpet funeral music)

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:57 am
by ozzy72

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:39 am
by Fly2e
[quote]Posted by: FiGHtA_PiLoT Posted on: Today at 12:17am
One of the Blue Angels

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:22 pm
by Mees
Don't bother Dave, if it's serious...

...And those trumpets do sound like bwa bwa bwa right?

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:37 pm
by beaky
A little irreverence is a good thing... but so is a little respect.  This isn't something that happened in a cartoon on TV.

Next time anyone feels like goofing on the military dirge known as "Taps", they might want to remember this:

http://freepages.music.rootsweb.com/~edgmon/cwtaps.htm

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:50 pm
by a1
Very sad :'( :'(.  I hope the Blue Angles will still go on without their fallen wingman. :'(

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:18 pm
by PsychoDiablo
Very sad, Was only a few months ago i got a poster with all there autographs when they performed a the Glendale Airshow :'(

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:50 pm
by FiGHtA_PiLoT
Guys, I wasnt trying to be funny. And Sorry Fly2e if I offended you. I know how big airline disasters are, my uncle and my cousin almost died in an accident. I just wanted to post this because this was a pretty big incident for the Blue Angels team. But they'll recover.

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:35 am
by beaky
Guys, I wasnt trying to be funny. And Sorry Fly2e if I offended you. I know how big airline disasters are, my uncle and my cousin almost died in an accident. I just wanted to post this because this was a pretty big incident for the Blue Angels team. But they'll recover.



I hope you can understand how your OP was misconstrued...that was kinda weird.

They will indeed recover- not the first time they've lost a team member in a flight accident, and they are Navy pilots after all. Let's just hope that something will be learned from this mishap that will prevent the same thing happening again... it could have been much worse, if more than one aircraft was involved or folks on the ground were injured.

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:10 pm
by FiGHtA_PiLoT
Actually it was pretty bad, 8 people on the ground got hit by flying debris and injured.....poor guys

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:54 pm
by flyboy 28
Very sad :'( :'(.  I hope the Blue Angles will still go on without their fallen wingman. :'(


No. This is a "blue angle".

Image

::)

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:40 am
by NDSP
Do you have a high-resolution of that shot :o

;D

Re: Sad story........

PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:13 am
by beaky
Actually it was pretty bad, 8 people on the ground got hit by flying debris and injured.....poor guys


Didn't know that.... something tells me they will be making some changes in how they define the area of their "box"... the couple of times I've seen them perform, they had to fly out over built-up areas beyond the airport fence occasionally, but always popped up to near 1000 feet to do so. I wonder how close these trees and houses were to the airport boundary.