Blue Angels
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Here's another very similar video that seems to render sharper on my devices, perhaps due to the transcoding:
The near paint swap with the right wing position aircraft occurs on this clip at about 2:25.
As previously observed, at some point the number 2 jet was swapped with the number 7 narrator's plane (family model as gums would call it
) in the right wing position of the formation.
Some recent B-roll video of the Blues at Navy Pensacola linked below including the cadence calls for the preflight walk down which I've seen many times but have only heard once over the years on the flight line for a show at SUS near STL. My AOCS Drill Instructor would be proud (and inevitably somewhat critical
).
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/74884...b-roll-package
The near paint swap with the right wing position aircraft occurs on this clip at about 2:25.
As previously observed, at some point the number 2 jet was swapped with the number 7 narrator's plane (family model as gums would call it
) in the right wing position of the formation.Some recent B-roll video of the Blues at Navy Pensacola linked below including the cadence calls for the preflight walk down which I've seen many times but have only heard once over the years on the flight line for a show at SUS near STL. My AOCS Drill Instructor would be proud (and inevitably somewhat critical
).https://www.dvidshub.net/video/74884...b-roll-package
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In some of the other recent videos the cameras appear to be multiple GoPros. The 360 views are probably stitched together with editing software.
The white box on the left side of the F-18 glareshield looks like a Stratus 3 ADS-B receiver:
https://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/st...-receiver.html
The white box on the left side of the F-18 glareshield looks like a Stratus 3 ADS-B receiver:
https://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/st...-receiver.html
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On the right side of his HUD, what are the purpose of those 6 or so "rectangular lights?"
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I finally spoke to a friend of mine who used to fly with the Blue Angels during the 2000/2001 show season. He said the lights on the glare shield were for the inverted pump indicator. The BA fly inverted longer than what is normally permitted for the Hornet so the Blue Angels aircraft are modified with a boost pump mounted to the top of the fuel tank. When they fly an inverted manuver for an extended period that pump is truned on, and while inverted fuel is pumped from the main tank to the feed tank. As fuel in the feed tanks is burned, the light would turns from green to yellow to red. When the light turns red it's time to roll back to a normal flight attitude.
Blue Angels new Fat Albert
We all knew that former Brize Norton J resident been converted as the new Blue Angels Fat Albert by Marshalls. As it happened there was a photo day / PR so I drove past and from distant managed to take a few shots,
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