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2007-10-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pack your smelling salts: Blue Angels target San Francisco

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-10-04 01:37|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

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Air Force Capt. Russ Piggott, a Bay Area native who will be flying an F-16 jet during Fleet Week, said he understands Knee's concerns. But, referring to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he added, "Look at the last time an airplane went into a building. That had nothing to do with the military, and it hasn't happened since. Our military is out there working hard to stop that from happening again."

Straight into Knee's groin! Shaddap, asshole. I've been to numerous Fleet Week performances by the Blue Angels. Guess what? It's standing room only anywhere near the good observation points. Art Agnos' turndown of SF's homeporting for the USS Missouri was just the beginning of this traitorous bullshit. Rest assured there's a whole bunch of people in this locale who respect our nation's military.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-04 02:50|| 2007-10-04 02:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I lived in Annapolis a couple of years ago, and don't remember if it was the Blue Angels or just a flyover for a football game, but yeah, it was noisy to have a F-18 pass over your house at 500 feet (or less) above the ground.

Also, incredibly awesome!

Posted by Bobby 2007-10-04 07:10|| 2007-10-04 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Noisy? Yes, but it's not like they fly all day long. What a bunch of weenies.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-10-04 07:48|| 2007-10-04 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Rock concerts are noisier. Ban them.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-10-04 07:57|| 2007-10-04 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Quagmire!

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-04 08:08|| 2007-10-04 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 San Francisco: The Fallujah of the West Coast.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-04 09:10|| 2007-10-04 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 SF scumbag hemp wearing tie-die sporting tofu eating peace-at-any-price enviro-wackos have a right to protest precisely because folks like the Blue Angels defend that right.

And the irony is completely lost on them. The Blue Angels should attach a piss bomb to every aircraft and drop it on them.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-04 09:30|| 2007-10-04 09:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I read a few of the posts from the sfgate - hilarious - leftards w/keyboards.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-04 10:50|| 2007-10-04 10:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Have the Blues switch over to B-52's. With full loads. Just for this week.

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-04 13:03|| 2007-10-04 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 ...said Russ Piggott, whose call sign is "Spicoli," Sean Penn's surfer character in the 1982 movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."

Oh, man! Wait'll Spicoli hears that! He'll probably take out a friggin restraining order...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-04 13:09|| 2007-10-04 13:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Have the Blues switch over to B-52's. With full loads. Just for this week.

Or warthogs .....

Posted by lotp 2007-10-04 15:17|| 2007-10-04 15:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Among those dreading the noise of the team is freelance journalist Richard Knee, who works at his home on Russian Hill. "I'm trying to get work done on deadline and, all of a sudden, I'm visited by the 'shock and awe' shows, and the intensity of the noise and vibration disturbs me," Knee said. "I don't think we should have it forced on us."

I feel that way about leather fetish festivals on public streets, myself.

Posted by lotp 2007-10-04 15:20|| 2007-10-04 15:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Yeah. If I gotta put up with those freak show Gay Pride parades, Mr. Kneepads can put up with the Blues for a few days...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-04 15:30|| 2007-10-04 15:30|| Front Page Top

#14 This is a waste of taxpayer money. Have an extra Fleet Week in SD.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-04 16:28|| 2007-10-04 16:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Never had F18's fly over my head at 500 ft, but I have seen F16's do it at about 300 ft.

We were up in Dunsmuir doing some fishing ina valley south of town one morning when we heard a rumble and then the scream of jet engines. I looked up just in time to see an F16 drop down into the valley over the western ridgeline which we knew to be about 500 ft above us. The pilot levelled off at about 200 ft before the ridegline and then screaming north following the valley.

Not 10 seconds behind him another F16 did exactly the same thing.

The friend I was fishing with figured they were on training manuevers or something, but never could figure out where they might have been flying from or why they were screwing around at high speed flying below the ridgeline (maybe practicing NOE or radar avoidance).

Was amazing stuff though - something to tell folks at Rantburg about.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-10-04 17:45|| 2007-10-04 17:45|| Front Page Top

#16 FOTSG: had to (more than once) pick bits of tree parts out of belly panels of Intruders after flying training runs through the Cascade Mountains.
sadly, also had to pick bits of Intruders out of trees while trying to fly training runs through the Cascades. Typical low altitude bombing runs don't have a lot of margin for error. 3 crews in one 3 year tour.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-10-04 17:49|| 2007-10-04 17:49|| Front Page Top

#17 I still contend that the jets are awesome, but you haven't lived until you're out in a cow pasture in north GA mountains, and a B1B bomber comes up over you at no higher than 200'. No lie, I could see the pilot's headgear and almost see the whites of his eyes. I didn't even hear/see it coming until he passed over me. Needless to say, I about fell down in a cow pattie.

Flying out of Dobbins NAS, home to Lockheed (next door) and the F-22. I can't wait to hear that one scream out overhead.

Posted by BA 2007-10-04 20:03|| 2007-10-04 20:03|| Front Page Top

#18 Day-yum, BA - I'm jealous! ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-04 21:26|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-10-04 21:26|| Front Page Top

#19 SF scumbag hemp wearing tie-die sporting tofu eating peace-at-any-price enviro-wackos

Aw, com'on, mcsegeek. Tell us what you really think!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-04 23:00|| 2007-10-04 23:00|| Front Page Top

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