Blue Angels Announce 2007 Show Schedule

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<p>NAVAL AIR STATION PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, announced their schedule for the 2007 show season.</p>

<p>Following winter training, the team will begin its 61st season at Naval Air Facility El Centro, Calif., March 10, 2007. It will conclude Nov. 10 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla. </p>

<p>The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform 66 demonstrations at 35 air show sites throughout the United States, as they celebrate 20 years of flying the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet.</p>

<p>Demonstration sites are selected in support of the objectives of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the Department of Defense. Public performances greatly assist Navy and Marine Corps recruiting and retention goals, enhance esprit de corps among uniformed men and women, and demonstrate the professional skills and capabilities of the armed forces to bolster pride in the American public.</p>

<p>"The Blue Angels are fired up and ready for a safe and exhilarating show season," said Cmdr. Kevin Mannix, Blue Angels flight leader and commanding officer. "While we wanted to perform at every air show site, we have a limited number of available performance dates each season. Every venue that requested to host the Blue Angels received the Navy's utmost consideration."</p>

<p>The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform at the following locations in 2007.</p>

<p>March: -10 Naval Air Facility El Centro, Calif. -17-18 Davis Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), Ariz. -24 Tyndall AFB, Fla. -31 MacDill AFB, Fla.</p>

<p>April: -01 MacDill AFB, Fla. -14-15 Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi, Texas -21-22 MCAS Beaufort, S.C. -28-29 Vidalia, Ga.</p>

<p>May: -05-06 Offutt AFB, Neb. -12 Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. -19-20 La Crosse, Wis. -23 U.S. Naval Academy, Md. -26-27 Millville, N.J.</p>

<p>June: -02-03 Rockford, Ill. -09-10 Tinker AFB, Okla. -16-17 Fargo, N.D. -23-24 North Kingstown, R.I. -30 Battle Creek, Mich.</p>

<p>July: -01 Battle Creek, Mich. -07-08 Ypsilanti, Mich. -14-15 McConnell AFB, Kan. -21 Pensacola Beach, Fla. -28-29 Bozeman, Mont.</p>

<p>August: -04-05 Seattle, Wash. -11-12 Hillsboro, Ore. -25-26 Indianapolis, Ind.</p>

<p>September: -01-03St. Louis, Mo. -08-09 NAS Oceana, Va. -15-16 NAS Brunswick, Maine -22-23 Millington, Tenn. -29-30 Salinas, Calif.</p>

<p>October: -06-07 San Francisco, Calif. -13-14 MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii -20-21 Fort Worth, Texas -27-28 Muskogee, Okla.</p>

<p>November: -03-04 Jacksonville Beach, Fla. -09-10 NAS Pensacola, Fla.</p>

<p>Although these dates have been approved, they are subject to change. For the most updated schedule information, log on to the team's official Web site at <a href="http://www.blueangels.navy.mil%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.blueangels.navy.mil&lt;/a>. - -For more news from around the fleet, visit <a href="http://www.navy.mil%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.navy.mil&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

<p>Story Number: NNS061205-11 - Release Date: 12/5/2006 4:19:00 PM</p>

<p>Defense Department Documents and Publications
December 5, 2006</p>

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<p>I'm kind of surprised that they're still flying Fleet Week in San Francisco in October. I guess the Navy isn't completely disgusted with them yet.</p>

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<p>Don't know much about the Blue Angels. . .</p>

<p>Why the hostility?</p>

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<p>Sorry, I guess that comes across as disgusted with the Blue Angels. I meant the Navy isn't completely disgusted with San Francisco yet, so they didn't cancel Fleet Week. The San Francisco School board has voted to do away with all ROTC in there schools in the next two years. They have reasons for it, which I won't go into here, but they pretty much disagree with what our military is doing now.</p>

<p>San Francisco was also offered the USS Iowa, a WWII Battleship and money to make it a museum and declined.</p>

<p>I definitely wasn't meaning to sound like I was bad mouthing the Blue Angels. I also love San Francisco (to visit) I just don't really agree with some of the people who live there.</p>

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<p>Ah! Can't fault ya there.</p>

<p>It's sad to see how many people are against military operations simply because channel 3 tells them every night at 6 to be against them.</p>

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<p>On the San Francisco stuff....I have heard one of their City Councilman forcefully argue that they 'don't need a military' - and that the Police should be called if there is any need. I am not making this up. Amazing.</p>

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<p>LOL</p>

<p>I'm sure that the threat of invasion might make them think twice.</p>

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<p>Published in the Pensacola News Journal:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612110302%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612110302&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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This is a success story about a young "Blues" pilot back in the mid-1980s, when the flight demonstration team transitioned to the F-18 Hornet.</p>

<p>I am proud to be a friend of Pat Walsh and his Dallas family for these many years, dating back to his tour with the Blue Angels flight demonstration team. His tour was extended with them because of his familiarity with, and prior experience in, the Hornet. At the time he was No. 3 wingman, and then slot pilot to finish his tour....

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<p>Air Force jets will fly in place of Navy's 'Blues' at next year's Miramar show</p>

<p>Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20061213-9999-1n13angels.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20061213-9999-1n13angels.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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When a precision jet team streaks down the flight line at the Miramar Air Show next October, for the first time ever it won't be blue and gold. </p>

<p>The Navy's Blue Angels are skipping Miramar in 2007 for a trip to Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, clearing the way for an unusual San Diego appearance by the Air Force Thunderbirds....

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<p><a href="http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/ap_bay_blueangel_071004/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/ap_bay_blueangel_071004/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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The Blue Angels soared in the skies above San Francisco on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s annual Fleet Week air show.</p>

<p>The Navy’s precision flying team will perform aerial maneuvers Saturday and Sunday as part of San Francisco Fleet Week 2007. On Thursday, they did a practice run.</p>

<p>The visit by the Blue Angels to San Francisco comes after the Board of Supervisors rejected a proposal last week that would have banned for safety reasons the flight demonstration team from flying over the city....

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<p><a href="http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,150633,00.html?ESRC=dod.nl%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,150633,00.html?ESRC=dod.nl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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San Francisco's Supervisor Chris Daly is zero-for-three in his battle to spoil San Francisco's Fleet Week. Daly's latest resolution to ban the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels from performing at Fleet Week was rejected by the city's officials for the third time on Sept. 25, reports the San Jose Mercury News.</p>

<p>Daly's first attempt at stopping the Blues was rejected in August when the city's Government Audit and Oversight Committee tabled his measure in a 2-1 vote.</p>

<p>In his second effort, Daly amended his resolution to ban the Navy jets from flying over heavily populated areas of San Francisco. Daly told the committee that a plane crash would result in a significant loss of life and damage to property. The committee disagreed and subsequently rejected the measure in early September....

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<p><a href="http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/navy_blueangels_071009/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/navy_blueangels_071009/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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The Navy’s famed Blue Angels precision flight demonstration team roared onto Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay flight line Monday, days ahead of its weekend performances headlining the annual air show.</p>

<p>This year’s Kaneohe Marine Corps-Navy Air Show will run Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 at Kaneohe Marine Corps Base on the island of Oahu. Along with the Pensacola, Fla.-based Blue Angels, the two-day event will feature aerial aerobatic teams, a Marine air-ground task force demonstration and performances by the Army’s “Golden Knights” and the Navy SEALs’ “Leap Frog” parachute demonstration teams....

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NAVAL AIR STATION PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, announced their schedule for the 2007 show season.

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<p>I guess they have not gotten the memo that "we are a nation at war" and, henceforth, such displays of "spirit" are "secondary, optional and conditional!"</p>

<p>:(</p>

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<p>Blue</a> Angels mark 20th season flying Hornets - Navy News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Navy Times</p>

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For 20 years, elite Navy Blue Angel pilots have performed their high-speed spirals, barrel rolls and impossibly tight formations in F/A-18 Hornets, the aircraft used the most in the team’s 61-year history.</p>

<p>Aviators and fans are paying tribute to two decades of the Blue Angels flying the reliable Hornet as the 2007 touring season ends Friday and Saturday at Pensacola Naval Air Station....

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