No Blue Angels UK dates in 2012....

[Gary]

What we already could have guessed. No Blue Angels UK dates in 2012.... Just released their 2012 schedule

March

10 NAF El Centro, CA
17-18 St. George, UT
24-25 Punta Gorda, FL

April
01 Tuscaloosa, AL
14-15 NAS Kingsville, TX
21-22 New Orleans, LA
28-29 Warner Robins AFB, GA

May
05-06 MCAS Cherry Point, NC
12-13 Smyrna, TN
19-20 Andrews AFB, MD
27-27 Jones Beach, NY
29 USNA (graduation fly-over)

June
02-03 Virginia Beach, VA
09-10 Mankato, MN
16-17 Baltimore, MD
23-24 Pittsburgh, PA
30 Portsmouth, NH

July
01 Portsmouth, NH
02-04 Boston, MA
07-08 Dayton, OH
14-15 Pensacola Beach, FL
21-22 Sioux Falls, SD
28-29 Twin Falls, ID

August
04-05 Seattle, WA
18-19 Chicago, IL
25-26 Summerside Prince Edward Island, Canada

September
01-03 Cleveland, OH
08-09 Little Rock AFB, AR
15-16 NAS Oceana, VA
22-23 Grand Junction, CO
29-30 MCAS Kane'ohe Bay, HI

October
06-07 San Francisco, CA
12-14 MCAS Miramar, CA
20-21 Houston, TX
27-28 Jacksonville Beach, FL

November
02-03 NAS Pensacola, FL

One year we might be lucky and get them back across

[benyboy]

I saw them at Finningley in 92, they are quite good
At least we have Thunderbirds this year

[RichC]

Let's hope the Thunderbirds don't come either!

[Jason Grant]

Let's hope the Thunderbirds don't come either!

Funniest thing i've read for ages.

[Unknown74]

How often have the US Navy Blue Angels actually been over to the UK for a display? I believe they've only in recent times been to Finningley and made a fuel stop at Lakenheath if I remember rightly.

[Jason Grant]

It's a shame they aren't coming to the UK for a while because they are my favourite display team. I enjoy all the precision from the ground crew to the pilots, it really is a fantastic demonstration of man and machine. It is like going to the theatre with all the music and commentry. Just embrace it and get caught up in the moment like I always do.

[RichC]

That is the exact reason why i don't wish them to be here. They take up 30mins of the airshow by fart arsing around on the ground first

I might just be being grumpy though. They would look good at Dawlish!

[Jason Grant]

They would look good at Dawlish!

Nice idea, that would be a scoop, especially if they could launch from a carrier in the English Channel.

[joe spares]

as there's no JATO take off by the C130 anymore it's no big loss,that was the best bit of their display!

[Bucky P]

They were due over in September 1990 and were down to fly at the Abingdon airshow but due to a little problem in the Middle East they canceled!

[garethbrum]

Could have sworn they had only just issued their schedule for 2011.............

[Jason Grant]

Could have sworn they had only just issued their schedule for 2011.............

They now issue a schedule for two years not one.

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[roughcutter]

That is the exact reason why i don't wish them to be here. They take up 30mins of the airshow by fart arsing around on the ground first

I might just be being grumpy though. They would look good at Dawlish!

Must admit they can be a bit cheesey. Don't know if this is true, I was told that in the 60's - 70's the Thunderbirds had their own brass band which used to play during the team's performance. After their display they would then taxi their fighters back in line then turn to face the crowd, shut down their engines and in unison the canopies would open up and the pilots would stand up and salute! Cringe making or what?

MarkL

[jem60]

Absolutely true!!!Everything, and I mean everything is done in formation, whether on the ground or in the air. I suspect that they go for a 'formation pee' before going to their aircraft. Cringeworthy, but so very very American