Airshow Favorites--Blue Angels

Flying very slowly directly right-to-left with their noses high in the air, this shot of two Blue Angels screamed for the silhouette treatment.



The one above is the most popular, but it reminds me of this Thunderbirds shot from 2006:

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The Blue Angel's show is fairly long, so I have a ton of pictures do choose from.

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The new camera generally kicked the old one's ass at this task, although my autofocus made more than a dozen huge errors.
At least it made the errors very quickly!
Time to read the manual again.
Last time I switched my old camera to manual focus and locked it at infinity which worked very well since the planes are so far away, but the longer focal length lens and faster frame rate of the Alpha300 were great as was the physically much larger sensor with twice the pixels.
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Civil Air Patrol Cadets(?) put on some rifle drills using flashy but completely fake M1 Garands.

Makes you wonder where the nickname came from.
It was an F-5, the 3rd-world fighter version of our '50s-era T-38 supersonic trainer that still flies today.


I have my two favorites still to show you, and will look through the folder for any overlooked items of interest.

Air Fest 2008 At Lackland AFB

It was a great show, as always.
Two years ago The Thunderbirds performed, so having The Blue Angels this year was a nice change.










Back in the late '90s I partied with some Blue Angel pilots at a club in Corpus Christi--they even sent the band an autographed picture.

More to come...