I too miss the old airshows at Moffett. The ones they've had since the
de-commissioned the base were/are pretty lame. I also miss the P-3s
constantly buzzing around the Bay Area... I LOVE those planes.
--Mike
"Eddie" <hawaii-50@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 07 May 2008 19:56:35 -0400, DK <intrceptor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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>>There are some amazing photos here. The coast guard did a hell of a job
>>keeping a lane open for the jets!
>>
>>http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/
>
> Just plain Beautiful!
>
> I like that shot of Fat Albert with the GG in the background. Never
> seen a plane with all four engines feathered.
> NAH, sure looks like it, eh?
> You know, I've been to about 10 Blue Angels shows and I've never seen
> 'em fly low like the shots you got. You sure you didn't do a little
> "generating?" Twenty feet over the water, hard to believe.
> I once flew in a 7-passenger Cessna 15 feet over the Colorado River
> inside the Grand Canyon (no longer allowed) and it scared the bejesus
> out of me.
> By the way, you know that the left-wing loonies always try to get
> Fleet Week cancelled because of it's "militarism" theme.
> The best shows were when they used to come to Moffett Field, imho.
>
> I remember one 4th of July show at Moffett clearly. After the show
> the pilots lined up, about 15 yards apart. I went up to one and asked
> him to sign my program, which he gladly did. We chatted for a minute
> or so. I asked him how long more were they going to fly the Skyhawk.
> He told me that they were transitioning to the F/A-18 Hornet the next
> year, iirc. The following week July 13, 1985, while performing
> somewhere in the east coast, there was an accident in which one pilot
> was killed. His name was Lt. Cmdr. Mike Gershon, the pilot I had
> talked to at Moffett. I still have the autographed show program along
> with a newspaper clipping about the accident. He was such a nice guy.
> Eddie
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