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| Light the burners and keep the nose down London, ON August 2021 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Then again, Blue Angel jet No. 6 is hardly average. Unlike the milk-run 737 (hopefully non-MAX) you took to your last pre-COVID business conference in Poughkeepsie, this one has an afterburner. And permission to keep the nose low and the burners lit to maximize acceleration and deafen anyone within earshot.
It is as awesome as it sounds. And it never gets old.
The roiled air the fast-moving Super Hornet leaves in its wake - aka jelly - is an added bonus, a temporarily tangible reminder that the laws of physics aren't negotiable.
That school bus? There for a reason, as well - they park a few of them around the airfield to denote the "box" within which the aircraft can perform their aerobatic maneuvers. Except the Blue Angels, who use their own decidedly more sophisticated equipment to provide land-based markers for their significantly higher-energy performances.
You learn something new every time they fly. But even if you don't, it's more than enough to stand by the flightline as the tips of our democratic spear rip holes through the sky.
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