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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
Surely this is a typo ...
"El CENTRO, Calif. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, performed for more than 200 spectators at Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro March 11, marking the beginning of the Blue Angels' 60th anniversary season." http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=22709 MW |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
"Mike Weeks" wrote in news:1142468095.417423.174550
@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com: Surely this is a typo ... "El CENTRO, Calif. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, performed for more than 200 spectators at Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro March 11, marking the beginning of the Blue Angels' 60th anniversary season." http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=22709 Nah, that's about right for a home base show. It's at least a two hour drive to get there from anywhere else, and these shows aren't on the regular calendar, anyway. Dave in San Diego |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
They call it "El Centro of nowhere" for a reason.
-- Mike Kanze "Guinness is the drink that kept the Irish from taking over the world." - Kinky Friedman, Texas gubernatorial candidate "Dave in San Diego" wrote in message . 30... "Mike Weeks" wrote in news:1142468095.417423.174550 @e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com: Surely this is a typo ... "El CENTRO, Calif. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, performed for more than 200 spectators at Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro March 11, marking the beginning of the Blue Angels' 60th anniversary season." http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=22709 Nah, that's about right for a home base show. It's at least a two hour drive to get there from anywhere else, and these shows aren't on the regular calendar, anyway. Dave in San Diego |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
"Mike Kanze" wrote in message . .. They call it "El Centro of nowhere" for a reason. Sheesh, Mike........ It's only about dos cervezas from Yuma!!!! Cheers. |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
Dos?
You must be a slow drinker. g (No Yuma jokes - I promise.) Cheers! -- Mike Kanze "Kind-hearted people might think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds this is a fallacy that must be exposed." -- Karl von Clausewitz "PosterBoy" wrote in message news:PxOTf.163232$sa3.76442@pd7tw1no... "Mike Kanze" wrote in message . .. They call it "El Centro of nowhere" for a reason. Sheesh, Mike........ It's only about dos cervezas from Yuma!!!! Cheers. |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
Mike Weeks wrote:
Surely this is a typo ... "El CENTRO, Calif. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, performed for more than 200 spectators at Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro March 11, marking the beginning of the Blue Angels' 60th anniversary season." http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=22709 MW IIRC, the El Centro show isn't open to the public, just invited guests of the squadron personnel. -- Tom Schoene lid To email me, replace "invalid" with "net" |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
As a kid and living in the mountains between El Centro and San Diego I use
to hike down to the base and camp out just to watch the Blue Angeles practice. I always had my trusted J.C. Higgins 22 rifle and I really enjoyed watching them. In the winter it would get pretty cold at night and I would build a small fire. It was just to hot in the summer and they were not there. I would follow the old train tracks out of Grease Gorge (mountain springs grade), stop of at old man Millers place (garage & towing) at the bottom of the grade in Ocotillo. He had an old Cessna and sometimes he would take me up for a ride. This was the days before the freeway. On the way back at mountain springs grade there was an old hermit know to me only as Happy. He lived down there among the rocks and lived off of items from the truck wreaks, going down the grade. I normally would visit with him for a couple of hours and then take the old stage couch route back up the grade. And then head back into what is now McCain valley recreation area (BLM land). From there I would normally go over and visit with Old Tulle Jim McCain, he would always have something for me to do. From there I would head back through the Manzanita Indian reservation stopping to visit with the different Indian family's. There was an old dam and if it happen to be hot I would stop and take a swim. There was Brucy, and Atiline, and the Eleits. They always welcomed me, and at Jinks place he would give me a grease gun and I would go up and grease the old wind mill. I guess I must of traveled about 150 miles total and always caught hell when I got home. But it was worth it to be able to lay out there in the desert and watch the Blue Angeles, how I dreamed it was me up there. Clyde "Mike Weeks" wrote in message oups.com... Surely this is a typo ... "El CENTRO, Calif. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, performed for more than 200 spectators at Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro March 11, marking the beginning of the Blue Angels' 60th anniversary season." http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=22709 MW |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
Clyde, what were they flying then - Panthers or Tigers? I would have
loved to see a Blues Panther show. v/r Gordon PS, great bit of writing there - I think most of us could feel the rocks under your feet. |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
Ed McKeller and Mr. Pieroni (probably butchering that) used to run a
large bus from our air museum out to El Centro to catch that show each year. The best part of the excursion was the bus ride - we always had at least a couple retired Blue Angel pilots on the bus, sharing stories of flamed-out Panthers landing in the desert or sneaking up on boats on lakes, things like that. The show we went to was the day before the start of the official season - and yes, it was generally referred to as the family airshow, since it was primarily an invitation-only type show. Our bus had its own bleachers (it pays to have Blue Angels on your museum board of directors!). There were a couple occasions when it honestly appeared that our group of 50+ made up the majority of the "crowd". v/r Gordon |
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Blue Angels at El Centro - a very small crowd?
I just saw them a few hours ago here at Mather AFB in Sacramento. First
official show of the season I heard. They did a fine job. Estimated crowd of 80,000 today, and about the same yesterday. Best part for me though was seeing a p40 do fly by's. Too enamored with the AVG I guess. - Doug wrote in message oups.com... Ed McKeller and Mr. Pieroni (probably butchering that) used to run a large bus from our air museum out to El Centro to catch that show each year. The best part of the excursion was the bus ride - we always had at least a couple retired Blue Angel pilots on the bus, sharing stories of flamed-out Panthers landing in the desert or sneaking up on boats on lakes, things like that. The show we went to was the day before the start of the official season - and yes, it was generally referred to as the family airshow, since it was primarily an invitation-only type show. Our bus had its own bleachers (it pays to have Blue Angels on your museum board of directors!). There were a couple occasions when it honestly appeared that our group of 50+ made up the majority of the "crowd". v/r Gordon |
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